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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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Open Heart Forgery poetry open mic

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Celebrate National Poetry Month with community poetry journal Open Heart Forgery at Halifax Central Library (Room 301, 3rd floor)! You’re invited to bring your own poetry to share at our open mic (max. 5 minutes at the mic per person), or simply come to listen and enjoy. Face masks are welcome but not required, and […]

Wild Songs of Land and Sea: An Evening of Poetry

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It’s Poetry Month and we’re celebrating! Join poets Clare Goulet, Jessica Hiemstra, Cory Lavender, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, and Margo Wheaton—along with cellist along with cellist Mateo Ronderos-Zerpa—for an evening of poetry and music exploring our relationship with the living bodies of land and water that surround us.

Workshop: Wild Songs of Land & Sea, with Margo Wheaton

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In this workshop, poet Margo Wheaton invites participants to reflect, read, and write poems as a way of exploring their personal relationship and responsibility to the bodies of land and water that surround us. In a warm, supportive environment, we will engage in creative group exercises, targeted discussions, and generative prompts. By writing together, we […]

Dion Kaszas & Gordon Sparks launch Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing

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Join us for a conversation between Dion Kaszas and Gordon Sparks as they celebrate the launch of Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing and discuss the importance of reclaiming their specific Indigenous tattooing and skin marking practices. There are many books written by academic non-Indigenous people on the subject of historical Indigenous tattooing traditions. Truly Tribal: […]
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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