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WITS Brochure Profile form

Inclusion in the September and January WITS brochures results in a higher number of school visits during the year.

To better serve teachers, librarians, and others interested in booking WITS visits—and to help WITS authors emphasize their unique WITS offerings—we’ve revised the Brochure Profile structure for the 2024/2025 school year. For this reason, returning WITS authors will not have the option of requesting the reprinting of existing Brochure Profiles.

Before submitting a new Brochure Profile, you must first join the WITS roster by notifying us at wits@writers.ns.ca and completing your WITS Online Profile through the “Writers’ Council / WITS profiles” tab of your Account page. If your Online Profile is complete from a previous WITS year, please consider updating it.

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 (in red font) 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 reprinting/revision of an existing Brochure Profile, please first review your existing profile in the most recent WITS brochure (September, 2023).

Submission Deadline for Sept 2024 Brochure: June 6, 2024

Submission form

Must match the name in your WITS Online Profile visible at writers.ns.ca/programs/writers-in-the-schools/apply-for-visits
Click or drag a file to this area to upload.
∙ Author photos must be no more than 5 years old and must suit a 2:1 aspect ratio (2" wide by 1" high).
∙ The best photos are high-resolution wide shots with significant background to the left and right of your body.
∙ A close headshot with little background may require us to crop out part of your head or face to fit the available space.
Please select all that apply.
Please select all that apply.
Please select up to four areas of expertise, focusing on genres / forms for which you have prepared or could easily prepare a one-hour workshop.
Enter a standalone book (e.g., your most recent or recognizable book) or a single book series. If the series does not have a title, please use the title of its first book.
∙ Descriptions must be no more than 350 characters in length and must be written in complete sentences.
∙ The best descriptions resemble an elevator pitch, being specific and highlighting what makes you unique among WITS authors. We recommend beginning with "[Name] will..."; "[Name] offers..."; or "[Name]'s workshops [verb]...."
∙ We will revise your description, without notification, to remove URLs and book titles; to improve grammatical correctness and concision; or for typesetting purposes.

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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 participants in any given workshop 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. The “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the following definitions used by WFNS.

  • 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, and writing for children and young adults) 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.

For “intensive” and “masterclass” creative writing 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