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Nina Newington

BIOGRAPHY
Nina Newington’s first novel, Where Bones Dance, won the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Georges Bugnet Award for Novel in 2008. Guernica Press is publishing her second novel, Cardinal Divide, in September 2020. She is currently finishing a memoir about living illegally in the US for twenty years.

A former Kennedy scholar with an MA in English Literature from Cambridge, she makes her living designing gardens and building things. She is an active member of Extinction Rebellion in Annapolis County. English by birth, she and her American wife immigrated to Canada in 2006. They raise sheep on unceded Mi’kmaw territory near the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Anthologies:
    • Family Gatherings ed. Whitney Scott. Outrider Press, 2003
    • Jo’s Girls ed. Christian McEwen. Beacon Press, 1997
    • Resurgent: New Writings by Women ed. Camille Norton, Lou Robinson. University of Illinois, 1992
    • Naming the Waves: Contemporary Lesbian Poetry ed. Christian McEwen.  Virago, 1988
    • My Story’s On: Ordinary Women/Extraordinary Lives ed. Paula Ross. Common Differences Press, 1985
  • Literary journals: Potomac Review 2004, The American Voice 1995, 1993,Sinister Wisdom 1990, Common       Lives/Lesbian Lives 1990, 1988,Midland Review 1989, Visions 1988, Peregrine 1988,Ikon 1987, 1984, Conditions 1985
AWARDS

 Writers’ Guild of Alberta Georges Bugnet Award for Novel             2008

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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