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Carol Johnstone

BIOGRAPHY

Journalist Carol Johnstone holds a Bachelor of Journalism from King’s College and a B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has more than 20 years experience writing — from technical analyses on mining topics to newspaper articles on business, profiles, the disabled, visible minorities, science, art, news events, and personal experience in a literary style.

Her work has appeared in the Associated Press, Atlantic Business, Atlantic Progress, Shambhala Sun, Visual Arts News of Nova Scotia, Iron Wheel, Halifax Daily News, Chronicle Herald, and North End News. She also wrote two “Careers in Chemistry” pieces for the 2001 edition of McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s grade 11 chemistry textbook.

Her business, Windword Writing and Graphics, has been in operation for more than 10 years specializing in production editing and graphic design of newsletters, flyers, conference materials, letterhead, ads, posters, theatre programs, and menus (skills include calligraphy, drawing, and oil painting).

Her latest project is printing and producing on-demand note cards using original artwork and photographs, sold retail to individuals and wholesale to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Drala Books, the Mu-Lan Chinese Cultural Centre, and outlets in the United States and Europe.

She currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

 

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The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia is based in Kjipuktuk, in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties do not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognize Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and establish the rules for an ongoing relationship between nations.

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Recommended Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) recommends that each workshop’s participants share a level or range of writing / publication experience. This is to ensure that each participant gets value from the workshop⁠ and is presented with information, strategies, and skills that suit their current writing priorities.

To this end, the “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the following definitions developed by WFNS:

  • New writers: those with no professional publications (yet!) or a few short professional publications (i.e., poems, stories, or essays in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
  • Emerging writers: those with numerous professional publications and/or one book-length publication.
  • Established writers/authors: those with two book-length publications or the equivalent in book-length and short publications.
  • Professional authors: those with more than two book-length publications.

For “intensive” and “masterclass” creative writing workshops, which provide more opportunities for participant-to-participant feedback, the recommended experience level should be followed.

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