Other past students of the workshop have gone on to their own successes. Maureen Hull launched her first published poetry collection at the Maritime Writers' Workshop in 1999. At the invitation of Pierre Berton, she recently completed a writing stint at Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon. All three writers were nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1999. Percy Prize for an Unpublished Novel awarded by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
Students come away from the writers' workshop with glowing reports of their experience.
The instructor could not have been more generous with her time and her knowledge.