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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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Joyce Baxter launches Colouring Adventures Across Canada

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Join us for our book launch of Our Home And Native Land: A Colouring Book of Animals and Stories from Travels in Canada.

Meet Ada & Friends: Pet Project Kids’ Reading and Activities with Heidi Tattrie Rushton

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Drop by Dartmouth Book Exchange for a reading from Heidi Tattrie Rushton’s new middle-grade novel, Pet Project, the long-anticipated sequel to Pet Tales, published by Nevermore Press. This drop-in event will feature paper fortune tellers, spot-the-difference activities, colouring sheets, and more. Books will be available for purchase and for signing. In her small town of […]

Uncovering Traitor’s Game: An Evening with Stephen Kimber and his Halifax Wartime Mystery

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Join us in welcoming Stephen Kimber to our store. Returning to the world of his non-fiction account Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War, award-winning journalist Stephen Kimber’s Traitor’s Game is a propulsive, clever, and atmospheric work of noir fiction, and the first in an enthralling, character-driven World War II noir detective mysteries set […]

Behind The Pages: Book Talk and Signing

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Join us for a book talk with Carol Bruneau and her brand-new release, The Little Way—a thoughtful work of contemporary fiction set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, about an overworked florist fighting to protect her small business, her coastal home, and her floundering family, from the beloved author of Threshold and Brighten the Corner Where You […]
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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