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New Glasgow Public Library

Address: Aberdeen Business Centre

Address 2: 610 East River Road

City: New Glasgow

State: Nova Scotia

Country: Canada

Postal Code: B2H 3S2

Website: https://www.parl.ns.ca/locations/newglasgow.php

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29

Timothy Brushett launches 'Crusoe and the Stone Gardener'

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Two events relating to my newly published YA novel entitled Crusoe and the Stone Gardener will run back to back at the Pictou/Antigonish public library in New Glasgow on November 29th. Starting at 1:30 will be a session for younger readers followed by an author talk for those interested in my own writing process.
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Author Talk by Timothy Brushett

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A talk by Nova Scotian author Timothy Brushett on writing, the role of imagination, and the road to publication. Introducing Crusoe and the Stone Gardener, his newly published novel.
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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 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