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Halifax Central Library

Address: 5440 Spring Garden Road

City: Halifax

State: Nova Scotia

Country: Canada

Postal Code: B3J 1E9

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Crime Will Tell: A Celebration of Crime Writing

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Join us for Crime Will Tell, a celebration of crime writing of all kinds! From cozy mysteries, to true crime, to thrillers, there is something here for every fan of mystery, mayhem, and murder.

History Matters: The Seven Sacred Teachings of the Mi’kmaq

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Venue room: Lindsay Children’s Room Hosted in person and online via Zoom. Details at above link. We invite you on a journey with Matt Connolly, Speaking Wolf of the Qalipu band, for a PowerPoint presentation of the Seven Sacred Mi’kmaq Teachings. Joining him is Corinne Hoebers, author of Tethered Spirits, as she talks about her […]

WFNS 50th Anniversary Party

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The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia is celebrating our 50th anniversary! Members (past and present), community partners, and supporters are invited to join us for a 1970’s-inspired evening where we look back on the past 50 years and make a toast to the future.

Booktoberfest 2026 (Halifax)

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WFNS’s annual book market with free entry, free creative writing workshops, and free author readings.
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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