A black poster with white and yellow text. The text reads: All hands on deck. We won't stop singing. Friday, March 27 - Noon. Province House. 1726 Hollis St, Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Raising our voices together. We are all treaty people. There is a graphic of the province of Nova scotia in the middle.

FRIDAY. NOON. PROVINCE HOUSE.
ALL HANDS ON DECK: WE WON'T STOP SINGING!

We've been thousands strong before. Can we grow even more, and surround the whole building with song?

A graphic featuring the Oil People book cover, showing a close-up of oil-covered rocks, along with a photo of David Huebert and details about the March 26th virtual event.

Join us with @writersfedofns.bsky.social to celebrate David Huebert's Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award-winning novel Oil People. David will sit down with Alexander MacLeod on March 26 @ 7:30 pm to discuss writing, fiction, storytelling, and the impact of the award. Register: bit.ly/2025-raddall

As arts groups celebrate milestone anniversaries, misguided austerity policies gut them - Halifax Examiner It takes only moments to undo the work of decades.

As arts groups celebrate milestone anniversaries, misguided austerity policies gut them
Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Make it make sense #nspoli

a reminder that the deadline for the Poet Laureate Mental Health Poem Project is coming up Saturday February 28, 2026! If you'd like the invitation letter and consent form to submit with your poem emailed to you, please contact me at plmhpoemproject@gmail.com.

The 2026 Nova Writes Competition is open for submissions until JAN 22!

NS emerging writers, send us your submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or writing for children. All entries receive feedback and winners are published in our annual anthology.

writers.ns.ca/programs/nov...

New to nonfiction writing? This upcoming workshop series is for you!

Foundations of Nonfiction with Tina Capalbo, Andrea Currie, & Darryl Whetter

Sundays, Jan 18 to Mar 15 (1-3pm AST)

Open to both WFNS members and nonmembers 😀

writers.ns.ca/workshops-events/foundations-of-nonfiction-winter-2026

Still a few seats left in our upcoming virtual workshop "How to Self-Edit Your Novel" with Sarah Mian!

Workshop starts tomorrow (January 13) and runs on Tuesday evenings for five weeks.

Register here: writers.ns.ca/workshops-events/self-edit-your-novel-mian-2026/

Hal-Con Zine available as a free ebook Featuring Brittni Brinn, Peter C Church, Gus Doiron, Joshua Elliott, Lindsey Harrington, Richard Levangie, Cole Martin, Baleigh McWade, Jude Mire, JS Sarick, Sunil Sarwal, Nailah Tataa, & Brenna Thibo...

For Hal-Con 2025, we published a free zine featuring flash fiction pieces and excerpts by 13 Nova Scotian writers of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.

For a limited time—from now until December 15—you can download and enjoy the PDF version of the zine!
writers.ns.ca/announcement...

UPCOMING VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: Death by Info Dump with donalee Moulton (Nov 18 & 25)

This workshop tackles the common trap of the info dump and discusses how to reveal character histories, settings, and key facts in ways that feel natural, compelling, and necessary.

writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

Background is a blue, ocean illustration. Text reads "Introducing our 2025/2026 Board of Directors" and "Welcome and welcome back to the people who give their time to keep WFNS vibrant and running!" Thirteen rectangular photos show headshots of board members.

Introducing the WFNS 2025/2026 Board of Directors!

Thank you to those directors who are returning for another year, and welcome new directors Sonja Boon and Renée Hartleib!

See the full list of board members here: writers.ns.ca/about/staff-...

WFNS AGM tonight!

7:00pm to 8:30pm Atlantic, on Zoom

Register: us02web.zoom.us/.../WN_ylvlB....

Important docs: writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

Join us to hear from WFNS’s staff and outgoing Board of Directors, review the annual financial statements, and get up-to-date on our newest programming.

Well my poem is on a power box in Graves-Oakley Memorial Park! Thanks HRM for the fun opportunity!

Gratitude to @writersfedofns.bsky.social for a week of recharging and renewal at Jampolis Cottage
#fundy #minasbasin #highesttidesintheworld #newmoon #neaptide #amwriting #poets #neilandjanejampolis

Just a reminder that tonight I will be in conversation with the wonderful Yputh Poet Laureate Asha Abdosh!

SAVE THE DATE! It’s the talent portion of our 10th anniversary bash at Block Shop Books in Lunenburg Nova Scotia! #janedoucet @deanjobb.bsky.social @amimckay.bsky.social @tomryanauthor.bsky.social

Blue and white square graphic that reads "Ellemeno Visual Literature Prize: 2025 Finalists. Sonja Boon, At Sea (textile; Doretta Groenendyk, We Just Swim (visual); and Jamie Samson, Still, Life. (poetry)."

Congratulations to the the three finalists for the 2025 Ellemeno Visual Literature Prize: Sonja Boon, Doretta Groenendyk, and Jamie Samson!

The Ellemeno Prize annually celebrates creative cross-pollination between the literary arts and the visual arts.

Stay tuned for an announcement of the winner!

Thank YOU for being such a lovely host!

Virtual panel, WED April 23, 7PM Atlantic

Join trans and gender non-conforming writers Zoë Comeau, K.R. Byggdin, Luke Hathaway, Trynne Delaney, and moderator Sal Sawler for an evening panel on reading, writing, storytelling, and celebrating trans narratives.

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

peter rabbit reading some books

today’s plan

Our Self-Directed Retreat program at Jampolis Cottage is available to Nova Scotian, Canadian, AND international writers!

Now booking for weeks between May 25 and December 6.

Apply by APR 17: writers.ns.ca/jampolis/sel...

Rita Joe Poetry Prize
"Family Function" by Susie DeCoste

Joyce Barkhouse Middle-Grade & YA Fiction Prize
"Going Back Home" by Charlie Bligh

Mark your calendars for our Celebration of Emerging Writers on June 11, where we'll launch our new Nova Writes Anthology! 🎉

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WFNS is delighted to announce the four winners of the 2025 Nova Writes Competition!

Budge Wilson Short Story Prize
"two girls at the end of the world" by Sophia Linfield

Silver Donald Cameron Essay Prize
"Helicopter Down in the Barrens" by Larry Hicks

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So I've started the process of collecting mental health and illness and mental health care related poems from people who live and working HRM, with the aim of creating a new work of art or collection them as my legacy project during my 2024-27 term. Come out April 29 to the Central Library for more!

Background photo of a camping tent brightly lit from within, under a starry night sky. Text reads “in-person workshops with Alice Burdick, Stephanie Domet, Joanne Gallant, Tiffany Morris, and Sal Sawler. Flexing your creative muscles: summer camp for adults. June 23-27, Halifax”

You asked, and we’re answering: WFNS is finally offering a creative writing day camp for adults! 😎

June 23-27 at our office on the Halifax waterfront

writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

Upcoming panel on Trans Joy and Authorship on April 23!

Finalists announced for the 2025 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic The finalists for the 2025 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature were recently announced. Administered by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, the Ann Connor Brimer Aw...

Finalists announced for the 2025 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature

Read more: bookcentre.ca/blogs/industry-news/finalists-2025-ann-connor-brimer-award

Two Poets Talking: A Conversation Between Poets Laureate Connect with Halifax Regional Municipality's Poets Laureate as a finale to National Poetry Month! Poet Laureate, Anna Quon, and Youth Poet Laureate, Asha Abdosh, will share selections from their work ...

Poetry reading at the Trident Thursday evening! But also this at the tail end of national poetry month. halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/67ed8...

2025 Atlantic & Nova Scotia Book Awards shortlists The shortlists for the 2025 Atlantic Book Awards and 2025 Nova Scotia Book Awards were jointly announced on March 31 at the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia (Halifax). Congratulations to the twenty ...

2025 Atlantic Book Awards noms announced! writers.ns.ca/award-news/b... incl titles by @gaspereaupress.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social, @nimbuspub.bsky.social, @cormorantbooks.bsky.social, @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social, @arsenalpulp.bsky.social. #DSPBposts #BookSky