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To submit an event to our Literary Events Calendar, you must be logged into your member account and you must hold a current General Membership or Associate Access.

  • Annual General Membership in the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) is open to anyone with an interest in creative writing.
  • Free, permanent Associate Access is available to book publishers, literary magazines, booksellers, libraries, and arts nonprofits that regularly organize literary events. Access can be requested by emailing contact@writers.ns.ca.

In-person events must be held in Nova Scotia or very nearby (e.g., in Charlottetown or Moncton).

Virtual events must feature a Nova Scotian writer or be of particular relevance to WFNS members and/or Nova Scotian writers and readers.

After your event is successfully submitted for review, we will follow up by email.

When the below form is successfully submitted, it will be replaced with a confirmation message.

You cannot access this form unless you are logged in to your account and hold a current General Membership or Associate Access. Please login; if logged in, please check your General Membership or Associate Access status.
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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