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Submit Event

To submit an event to our Literary Events Calendar, you must be a General Member of WFNS (Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia) and logged into your member account. General Membership is open to anyone with an interest in writing.

Submitted events must be virtual, held in Nova Scotia, or held very near Nova Scotia (e.g., Moncton or Charlottetown).

To book an event at the WFNS office (1113 Marginal Rd., Halifax), you must first email Oriana Duinker (director@writers.ns.ca) with your preferred date and time (and at least one alternative date). Once your booking is confirmed, you may submit your event information below.

When your event is successfully submitted for review, you will see a confirmation message in this browser window and receive a confirmation email. We will email you again when your event goes live on the calendar.

You cannot view this form unless you are a current General Member and logged in to your member account.
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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