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Teresa LaBella

BIOGRAPHY
Teresa LaBella grew up in Davenport, Iowa where the Mississippi River runs east to west. Her relentlessly Irish grandmother taught her to read fortunes with playing cards, tell a good story and brew a perfect pot of tea.

The people she interviewed as a journalist and met in her work in the arts and with nonprofit organizations colored her future fiction writing canvas and sharpened her love for storytelling.

Teresa published her first contemporary romance novel Reservations in 2013. Two more novels, Heartland and Belonging, a novella Love Unlikely and four short stories compiled for publication in Tales from Heartland complete the New Life in Love family saga series.

Her first novel in The UnMatchables romantic suspense series Danger Noted published in October 2020. Capital Strings, the author’s uniquely-Canadian political thriller, published in April 2021. Danger Revealed, the second novel in The UnMatchables series, was published by Purple Porcupine Publishing in July 2023. The author’s short story Fireflies was included for publication in the Writers on the Avenue Anthology Roads We’ve Taken, published in 2023 by Pearl City Press.

Teresa resides and writes from her home along Nova Scotia’s south shore.

AWARDS

“Danger Revealed”, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards judges’ choice in the category of best suspense novel for 2024.

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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, writing for 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.

Occasionally, WFNS uses the phrase “emerging and established writers/authors” to mean ‘writers and authors of all experience levels.’

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 info, strategies, and skills that suit their experience. 

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 uncertain about your experience level with respect to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca