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Lezlie Lowe

BIOGRAPHY
Lezlie Lowe is a freelance writer, broadcaster and researcher.

The native Haligonian has worked as a writer and editor for Halifax weekly paper The Coast since 1995. She’s a weekly columnist for the Chronicle Herald, long-form documentary-maker for CBC radio and active freelancer.

Lezlie teaches feature writing and creative nonfiction at the University of King’s College and coordinates the first-year Foundations of Journalism class.

She has worked as principal researcher on documentary films for Life Network, the Independent Film Channel and Bravo and was the recipient of a 2004 Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada honourable mention for Commentary and two Gold Awards for Feature Writing at the Atlantic Journalism Awards.

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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