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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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Wed
19

Locally Authored Book Club Exchange

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Our next book club meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 19th. Our book club is unique. Please read the following: • Each participant will bring a locally authored or published novel they have recently read and can part with. Locally authored will be defined as an author living within the Atlantic Bubble. • During the […]
Sun
23

Who-dunnit? afternoon with Anne Emery & donalee Moulton

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Join us for a wordy Who-dunnit? afternoon with Anne Emery & donalee Moulton. Anne Emery (Collins-Burke Mysteries) won the 2019 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime Novel for Though the Heavens Fall. In 2023, Fenian Street was a finalist for the Award of Excellence for Best Traditional Mystery. She won the […]
Sat
29

Meet & Greet with OC Publishing's Children's Authors

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Join us for an informal Saturday morning author Meet & Greet with a few of OC Publishing’s Children’s authors: Author & Illustrator E.M. Gales (Orange Kitty and the Mouse Parade), Barbara Ann Miller (Zig Zag Zeffy), and special guest Zeffy! Orange Kitty and the Mouse Parade is a playful, colourful, vibrantly illustrated, counting and rhyming […]
Sun
30

Holiday Book Event

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Join us for our Holiday Book Event on Sunday, November 30th, at 3pm. Denise Flint will be launching her new novel, Home for Christmas. A collection of four holiday romances set in Newfoundland and Labrador. Deanna Foster will also be joining us to discuss her novel Christmas with a Bang. This novel contains two novellas […]
Sat
06

Second Degree With Kayla Hounsell

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Join us with true crime author Kayla Hounsell and her book Second Degree: From Med School to Murder, The Story Behind the Shocking Will Sandeson Trials. We will be discussing her book. There will be a Q&A, a short reading, and a book signing at the conclusion of the event. This is her first appearance […]
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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