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Truro Library

Address: 754 Prince Street

City: Truro

State: NS

Country: Canada

Postal Code: B2N 1G9

Phone: (902) 895-4183

Website: https://www.lovemylibrary.ca/branch/truro/

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Wed
15

Creative Writer Cafes

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Want to get a taste of book coaching and meet like minded people who love talking books? Get professional feedback on your writing project from a book coach and have a lot of fun while you’re at it! All writing skill levels are welcome at Creative Writers Cafes. The group book coaching sessions will focus […]
Wed
22

Creative Writer Cafes

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Want to get a taste of book coaching and meet like minded people who love talking books? Get professional feedback on your writing project from a book coach and have a lot of fun while you’re at it! All writing skill levels are welcome at Creative Writers Cafes. The group book coaching sessions will focus […]
Wed
29

Creative Writer Cafes

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Want to get a taste of book coaching and meet like minded people who love talking books? Get professional feedback on your writing project from a book coach and have a lot of fun while you’re at it! All writing skill levels are welcome at Creative Writers Cafes. The group book coaching sessions will focus […]
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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 information, strategies, and skills that suit their career stage. 

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 you’re uncertain of your experience level with regard to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca