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Jeff Miller

BIOGRAPHY
Jeff Miller is the author of the award-winning creative nonfiction collection Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible Publishing). His stories have appeared in several anthologies and he frequently publishes criticism. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. As a creative writing educator, he has lead workshops in Montreal, Halifax, and Calgary, and worked as a high-school writing mentor and university teaching assistant. He lives on the Eastern Shore.

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible Publishing, 2010)

Selected periodicals:

Maisonneuve (Spring 2020) “Melting Away”
Lettuce Bee (Spring 2019) “Sex Pistols”
Montreal Review of Books (Fall 2018) “Emotional Wasteland”
QWF Writes (February 2016) “From the Underground”
Grandparents Zine (2013) “Two Men”
Shy: An Anthology (University of Alberta Press, 2013) “Common Loon”
The Dream Issue (Banff Centre, 2013) “Danger: Beavers at Work”
Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere (SappyFest, 2012) “Kids”
Remix (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2011) “To Dinosaur Provincial Park”
Zine Yearbook (Microcosm, 2009) “The Social Justice Club”
The Art of Trespassing (Invisible Publishing, 2008) “Worker’s Entrance”
The 2nd Hand (2005) “Rocko”
Fish Piss Magazine (2002) “Noah and Snow”
Broken Pencil (2001) “Montreal Looks Like the Future”
Kiss Machine (2001) “The Punchline”

AWARDS

2022    Canada Council for the Arts: Creation Grant

2021     Arts Nova Scotia: Creation Grant

2015     Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec: Residency Grant, Quebec Writer in Residence at the Banff Centre

2014     Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec: Creation Grant

2010     Expozine Alternative Press Awards: Best English Book

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Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) uses the following terms to describe writers’ experience levels:

  • New writers: those with less than two years’ creative writing experience and/or no short-form publications (e.g., short stories, personal essays, or poems in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
  • Emerging writers: those with more than two years’ creative writing experience and/or numerous short-form publications.
  • Early-career authors: those with 1 or 2 book-length publications or the equivalent in book-length and short-form publications.
  • Established authors: those with 3 or 4 book-length publications.
  • Professional authors: those with 5 or more book-length publications.

Please keep in mind that each form of creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children and young adults, and others) provides you with a unique set of experiences and skills, so you might consider yourself an ‘established author’ in one form but a ‘new writer’ in another.

The “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the above definitions. A workshop’s participants should usually have similar levels of creative writing and / or publication experience. This ensures that each participant gets value from the workshop⁠ and is presented with information, strategies, and skills that suit their career stage. 

For “intensive” and “masterclass” workshops, which provide more opportunities for peer-to-peer feedback, the recommended experience level should be followed closely.

For all other workshops, the recommended experience level is just that—a recommendation—and we encourage potential participants to follow their own judgment when registering.

If you’re uncertain of your experience level with regard to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca