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Literary Events Calendar

This calendar includes WFNS program deadlines, workshops, and events, as well as events held by WFNS members and by other NS literary & arts orgs, festivals, indie bookstores, etc.
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Creative Writer Cafes
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dART speak
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Getting Unstuck: Ideas to Make Poetry Less Hard, with Ben Ladouceur
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Latte Lit Open Mic at Open Book Coffee
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Hubbards Author Readings
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Crime Will Tell: A Celebration of Crime Writing
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Shelagh Meagher launches 'On Hammet Shore'
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Author Talk: Weather Lore & War with Cindy Day & Elizabeth Murphy
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Creative Writer Cafes
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The Songs We Make From Blood & Bone: An Evening of Words and Music about Family
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Donna Jones Alward Book Signing (Bedford)
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Donna Jones Alward Book Signing (New Minas)
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Briana Corr Scott book signing
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Sarah Emsley at Prescott House
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Rick Mofina launches 'If Two Are Dead'
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Donna Jones Alward Meet-the-Author and Book Signing (Antigonish)
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Foundations of Poetry (virtual) with Jaime Forsythe & Kathy Mac
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Creative Writer Cafes
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Locally Authored Book Club Exchange
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In Conversation: Donna Jones Alward and Renée Belliveau
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Wanda Campbell launches "Spring Theory"
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Finding Your Voice: A Writers' Retreat with Marjorie Simmins
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Finding Your Voice: A Writers' Retreat with Marjorie Simmins
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Book Fair at the Wolfville Farmers' Market
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Bex Tobin Fine at Woozles
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Kavanagh, Hiemstra, Lavender, & Levesque at Open Secrets
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Jan Fancy Hull launches "September: Sabotage"
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Finding Your Voice: A Writers' Retreat with Marjorie Simmins
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Michelle Hébert signs 'Every Little Thing She Does is Magic'
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Sarah Emsley signs "The Austens"
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Open Book Club chats 'Anne of Green Gables'
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Kavanagh, Hiemstra, Lavender, & Levesque at ARTSPLACE
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Donna Jones Alward Meet-the-Author (Port Williams)
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Jill MacLean launches "The Arrows of Fealty"
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Creative Writer Cafes
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An Evening with Donna Jones Alward (Fredericton)
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MFA Author Talks: James MacDuff
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Donna Alward Jones Book Signing (Dieppe)
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Austen and Montgomery panel with Sarah Emsley, Cavendish Literary Festival
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Renée Belliveau launches 'A Sense of Things Beyond'
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Spotlight Session with Donna Jones Alward, Cavendish Literary Festival
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Sarah Emsley reads from "The Austens," Cavendish Literary Festival
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Word on the Hill
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"Where to Start with Writing Guides" with Janet Kitto
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An Afternoon with the Evergreen Writers Group
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Donna Jones Alward Book Signing (Charlottetown)
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Creative Writer Cafes
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dART speak
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Countryside Literary Arts Series
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Cabot Trail Writers Festival
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donalee Moulton launches "Melt"
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Latte Lit Open Mic at Open Book Coffee
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Cabot Trail Writers Festival
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Writing about the Seasons of Our Lives: A Memoir Workshop with Marjorie Simmins
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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