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Blue Nose Giv’er Charity Challenge

For the second year, WFNS is participating in the Blue Nose Giv’er Charity Challenge, running Friday, May 15, to Sunday, May 17!

We’re raising funds for WFNS programming in general and making a commitment to clearing our minds and flexing our muscles with some good old-fashioned outdoor exercise.

Our small but mighty “The Run-on Sentences” team currently consists of WFNS Board President Joanne Gallant and WFNS staff members Oriana Duinker and Linda Hudson.

Here’s how you can get in on the fun:

Join our team!

Do you want to run, jog, or walk any of the Blue Nose races?

Register and select “Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia: The Run-on Sentences” when prompted to join a team.

You can ask friends and family to sponsor you to help us reach our collective fundraising goal—or you can just join without any obligation to fund raise. We’ll be so happy to have you either way.

Join our team

Have you already registered to participate? You can still join our team retroactively by logging into your Race Roster account and selecting The Run-on Sentences.

Donate!

Want to show your support from the comfort of your couch? Visit our team page to make a donation. All donations $10 and over will receive a charitable tax receipt.

Donate
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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