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Open Book Coffee

Address: 3660 Strawberry Hill Street

City: Halifax

State: Nova Scotia

Country: Canada

Postal Code: B3K 5A9

Website: https://www.facebook.com/openbookcoffee/

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Latte Lit Open Mic

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Join us at Open Book Coffee (3660 Strawberry Hill St.) on the first Friday of every month for a writers’ open mic – a chance to share works in progress with fellow authors in a welcoming setting. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and readings start at 7 p.m.

Shannon Fay hosts Writing Game Night

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Join author Shannon Fay for a fun, laidback hour of writing exercises. Craft a story using a journaling game as the framework: Shannon will read off prompts and you write something in response, building a story one fictional journal entry at a time. This month’s game will be Chalice, a solo writing game where you […]

The Wave & The Island: A Drawing Workshop

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The Wave Before the Island An Afternoon at Open Book Coffee, Halifax Join artist Briana Corr Scott and Sable Island guide Geordie Mott for a free, relaxed afternoon of storytelling and drawing. Hear firsthand accounts of Canada’s most remote island, then try your hand at sketching ocean waves from life. A beautiful way to spend […]

Sunday Signing with Jane Doucet

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Join Jane Doucet on June 28 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. for a Sunday Signing event at Open Book Coffee (3660 Strawberry Hill Street in Halifax).

Latte Lit Open Mic

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Join us at Open Book Coffee (3660 Strawberry Hill St.) on the first Friday of every month for a writers’ open mic – a chance to share works in progress with fellow authors in a welcoming setting. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and readings start at 7 p.m.
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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