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Tyler LeBlanc

BIOGRAPHY
Tyler LeBlanc was born and raised in Bayswater, a tiny fishing village on Nova Scotia’s south shore. He studied International Development Studies (with a focus on colonial history and political theory) and Journalism as an undergraduate and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax, NS. Acadian Driftwood (Goose Lane Editions 2020), his first book, won both the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award, and the Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing at the 2021 Atlantic Book Awards.

PUBLICATIONS

Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

AWARDS

Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award – 2021

Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing – 2021

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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