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Literary Events Calendar

■ Events presented by the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS), including workshops & program deadlines
■ Events organized by or featuring WFNS members
■ Events offered by other Nova Scotian literary & arts orgs, including festivals, libraries, indie bookstores, and others.

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Dartmouth Writers' Circle w/ Jacqueline Halsey & Melanie Mosher
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Fantastic Fiction
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Nova Scotia Book Awards Gala
2
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An Evening with the Alistair MacLeod Award Nominees
3
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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Indigenous History Month
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Celebrating our Best Published Books!
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Fiction Fête!
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Atlantic Poetry Reading
4
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dartspeak Open Mic
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Atlantic Book Awards Gala
5
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Latte Lit Open Mic
6
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Corinne Hoebers book signing
7
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History, Mystery, Ancestry, Legacy
8
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The Tenth Donald Sedgwick Reading Series
9
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The First Stephen Kimber Reading Series
10
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Celebration of Emerging Writers (Halifax)
11
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Blind Date with a Book Speed Dating Night
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Amanda Leduc, King's MFA Writer-in-Residence
12
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Shannon Fay hosts Writing Game Night
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Chedia El Khouri launches Ebbs and Flows of the Heart
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King's MFA Mentor Reading Night
13
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Writing & Illustrating Picture Books
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The Wave & The Island: A Drawing Workshop
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New Moon Authors' Reading
14
All-day
Call for committee members
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Vernon Oickle launches Eleven Crows for Good Health
15
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WFNS Annual General Meeting (virtual)
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17
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Locally Authored Book Club Exchange
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Literary Trivia (Halifax)
20
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Jane Doucet launches Blood Typed
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Will Cooper signs Lotus
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Will Cooper signs Lotus
22
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Flexing Your Creative Muscles (Halifax)
23
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Flexing Your Creative Muscles (Halifax)
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French and Acadians in 18th-Century Nova Scotia: Upheaval and Beyond
24
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Flexing Your Creative Muscles (Halifax)
25
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Flexing Your Creative Muscles (Halifax)
26
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Flexing Your Creative Muscles (Halifax)
27
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Open Heart Forgery poetry open mic
28
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Sunday Signing with Jane Doucet
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Latte Lit Open Mic
4
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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