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Literary Events Calendar

This calendar includes WFNS program deadlines, workshops, and events, as well as events organized by WFNS members and by other NS literary & arts orgs, festivals, libraries, indie bookstores, etc.

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26
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King's Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference
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Danielle Metcalfe Chenail Signing at Open Book Coffee
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Book Launch with Local Authors Jaime Forsythe and Jeff Miller
27
28
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Open Heart Forgery poetry open mic
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Sarah Emsley on "Imagining the Austens in Halifax"
29
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Shelf Indulgence book club (virtual) with Jon Tattrie
30
All-day
Call for applications: Program Coordinator (Education)
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Wild Songs of Land and Sea: An Evening of Poetry
1
All-day
Chapter by Chapter, ten-month manuscript intensive
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Latte Lit Open Mic
2
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Christine Hartlin at Mother's Day Market
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Workshop: Wild Songs of Land & Sea, with Margo Wheaton
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Sarah Emsley signs The Austens
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6
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Trans Writers Fiction Intensive (virtual) with K.R. Byggdin
7
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dartspeak Open Mic
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9
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Corinne Hoebers book signing
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Sarah Emsley signs The Austens
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Authors for the Astor
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JD Grant launches Flowers for Gaia
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11
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Dion Kaszas & Gordon Sparks launch Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing
12
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What’s the Best Publishing Path for Writers?
13
14
All-day
Call for Board candidates
All-day
50 for 50 Contest #2
15
All-day
Blue Nose Giv’er Charity Challenge
16
All-day
Blue Nose Giv’er Charity Challenge
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Corinne Hoebers book signing
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Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail book signing
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Fresh Ink: A Flash Publishing Event
17
All-day
Blue Nose Giv’er Charity Challenge
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19
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Stephens Gerard Malone launches The Unnameable
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21
All-day
Blue Lobster Detective Agency (Micro-Anthology Series)
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24
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Bruce W. Bishop launches Stephanie Makes a Scene
25
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Toastmasters Open House
26
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A Definitive (Re-)Intro to WFNS (virtual)
27
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Bruce Rice + Brian Bartlett reading
30
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Middle Grade and Youth Writing workshop with Chad Lucas
31
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dartspeak Open Mic
5
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Latte Lit Open Mic
6
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Corinne Hoebers book signing
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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