Pat d’Entremont

BIOGRAPHY
Pat d’Entremont is a Certified Management Consultant, entrepreneur, and writer. His monthly column, Business Technology, ran continuously in the Chronicle Herald for over six years, and his articles have been recognized by the business community for their accuracy, relevance, and wit. Pat has also contributed to Halifax Chamber’s Business Voice, Computing Canada and Microsoft Momentum, among others.

Pat does much of the media relations for Nicom IT Solutions, has a blog, uses social media effectively, and is able to get broad reach for his work.

Pat has a Bachelor of Science degree from Acadia University, a CMC designation from CMC Canada, and an ISP designation from the Canadian Information Processing Society.

Pat also writes fiction, and is currently working on a mystery, as well as a coming-of-age adult literary fiction novel.


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Recommended Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) recommends that participants in any given workshop 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. The “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the following definitions used by WFNS.

  • 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, and writing for children and young adults) 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.

For “intensive” and “masterclass” creative writing 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