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Vicki Grant

BIOGRAPHY
After a career in advertising and television, Vicki wrote her first novel, The Puppet Wrangler, in 2004. Since then she has written sixteen YA/MG novels and been nominated for over twenty-five major awards. Her latest YA novel, 36 QUESTIONS THAT CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT YOU, has sold to 19 territories worldwide and will be translated into 15 languages.

Vicki has visited schools in Africa, South America and across Canada.

AWARDS

Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Novel; ‘Quid Pro Quo’

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Silver Birch Honour Book; ‘Quid Pro Quo’

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Edgar Allan Poe Nominee; ‘Quid Pro Quo’

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CLA Children’s Book of the Year Nominee; ‘Quid Pro Quo’

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Ann Connor-Brimer Award; ‘Quid Pro Quo’

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Winner of Young Canada Reads, CBC New Brunswick; ‘The Puppet Wrangler’

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CLA Children’s Book of the Year nominee; ‘The Puppet Wrangler’

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Silver Birch Award nominee; ‘The Puppet Wrangler’

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Hackmatack award nominee; ‘The Puppet Wrangler’

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Named “Best Book of 2004” by Resource Links, VOYA and the OLA; ‘The Puppet Wrangler’

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{Advertising Copywriting Awards}

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International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Gold Quill: IWK Children’s Hospital Campaign

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Canadian Association of Professional Advertising Agencies (CAPAA) Gold: IWK Children’s Hospital Gold: ACOA Tourism Bronze: Canadian Unity

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IABC Silver Leaf Award: IWK Children’s Hospital

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CAPAA Bronze: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

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Art Directors Club of Toronto Gold: Hewlett Packard Workstation Merit: Hewlett Packard LaserJet Merit: Minwax

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The Maggies: Queen Elizabeth Hotel Campaign

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Marketing Awards Bronze: FCB Christmas Card

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Art Directors Club of Toronto Merit: FCB Christmas Card

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Art Directors Club of New York Distinction: FCB Christmas Card

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Art Directors Club of Toronto Merit: Rogers Cable Merit: Lufthansa

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NAAN Bronze: MT&T

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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 and 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.

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 information, strategies, and skills that suit their career stage. 

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 you’re uncertain of your experience level with regard to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca