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Flexing Your Creative Muscles (Halifax)

Styled after our Creative Writing Day Camps for youth and teens, this week-long camp will feature morning workshops and afternoon writing excursions. Each morning, a different local author will work with camp participants on a different creative writing topic; each afternoon, participants will be led by Linda Hudson (WFNS Program Manager) to write together in a different Halifax location.

“Flexing Your Creative Muscles” is designed to help participants think faster, deeper, zanier, and definitely outside of their comfort zones. For a whole week, you can learn from some of WFNS’s best workshop instructors and rediscover the fun of writing.

Instructors:

Becca Babcock
Joanne Gallant
Lindsey Harrington
B. R. Myers
Vivian Zhou

Recommended experience level: Writers and authors of all experience levels are welcome (About recommended experience levels)

Participant cap: 12

Location: Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (1113 Marginal Rd, Halifax), a wheelchair-accessible venue with a wheelchair-accessible, all-gender washroom. Afternoon writing locations will also be wheelchair-accessible.

Dates of 1-week day camp: Monday through Friday, June 22 through 26, 2026 (10:00am to 4:00pm Atlantic)
   Afternoon departure time is flexible to accommodate participants with childcare obligations.

Registration for 2025 General Members: $300

Registration for non-members: $365 (includes 2026 General Membership in WFNS)

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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