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Dartmouth Book Exchange

Address: 1187 Cole Harbour Road

City: Dartmouth

State: Nova Scotia

Country: Canada

Postal Code: B2V 1E8

Website: https://dartmouthbookexchange.ca/

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05

Lori Weber launches 'We Walked Him to the Door'

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Join us for the book launch of We Walked Him to the Door by Lori Weber, published by Pottersfield Press. A MAID death is like no other — it is deliberate, legal, and comes at an appointed time. Through the eyes of his widow, this memoir tells the story of Ron’s MAID journey and of […]
Thu
09

Blind Date with a Book Speed Dating Night

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Local Dartmouth author Amy Spurway has one of the best first lines in her novels, maybe even the best first paragraph. For our Speed Dating event, Blind Date books use their first line(s) as their “pick-up” lines, so Amy will be here to tell us all about first lines: how she came up with her […]
Tue
21

In the Shadows Tea with Deanna Foster and B.R. Myers

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“In the Shadows Tea” with authors Deanna Foster and B.R. Myers. Deanna will be launching her new book, Shadow’s Grace, and Bethany will be discussing her book, The Third Wife of Faraday House. We will be serving NovelTea’s Bram Stoker’s Vlad’s First Bite Berry Bliss Herbal Tea at 5:45 pm, with the event to follow […]
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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