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WITS Brochure Profile form

Inclusion in the September WITS brochure results in a higher number of school visits during the year.

Before submitting a new Brochure Profile, you must have opted in to become a WITS authors by following the steps detailed in our Guide for WITS Authors.

While submitting a new Brochure Profile, you must complete all fields. If any field is blank when you attempt to submit the form, an error message will appear below the field.

After correctly submitting a new Brochure Profile, you will see a confirmation message in this browser tab and receive a copy of your form via email.

Before requesting the re-printing/updating of an existing Brochure Profile, please first review your existing profile in the most recent WITS brochure (September, 2024).

Brochure profile submissions closed on May 28, 2025

For brochure distributed in September, 2025

Submission form

Must match the name in your WITS Online Profile visible at writers.ns.ca/programs/writers-in-the-schools/apply-for-visits (opens in a new tab)
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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