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Nova Writes Anthology 2025

$20.00

68 pages / 2025 / Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & YA fiction / ISBN 978-0-920636-53-4

Contributors: C.C. Bligh, Susie DeCoste, L.M. Hicks, & Sophia Lindfield

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Nova Writes Anthology 2025

Featuring:

“two girls at the end of the world” by Sophia Lindfield
(Winner of the Budge Wilson Short Story Prize, selected by judge K.R. Byggdin)

“Helicopter Down in the Barrens” by L.M. Hicks
(Winner of the Silver Donald Cameron Essay Prize, selected by judge Sandra Phinney)

Sea Changes by Susie DeCoste
(Winner of the Rita Joe Poetry Prize, selected by judge Annick MacAskill)

“Going Back Home” by C.C. Bligh
(Winner of the Joyce Barkhouse Middle-Grade & YA Fiction Prize, selected by judge Sara O’Leary)

Sales of the Nova Writes Anthology 2025 support the Nova Writes Competition, which provides emerging writers in Nova Scotia—and more established writers exploring new forms—with developmental and publication opportunities. All entrants receive feedback from competition readers; finalists receive additional feedback from judges; and winning entries are published in this annual anthology.

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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.
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  • 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.

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