Children's Programming

Teachers/Advisors: If you would like to be notified about any of the following programs or if you'd like to host a Canadian children's author in your classroom in the fall of 2023, click the button below to sign up for updates (we won’t contact you for any other reason!).

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Writers in the Schools

Have a Canadian author visit your classroom this fall!

Every November, AfterWords holds its annual festival, bringing incredible writers like Lawrence Hill, Sheila Heti, Jesse Wente, Lisa Moore, and Souvankham Thammavongsa to Halifax. We are happy to arrange school visits for individual visiting authors, to high school, junior high, or elementary classes. Please contact us if you'd like to have a Canadian author visit your classroom in 2023.

Youth Mentorship

We're developing a mentorship program for young writers in Nova Scotia. We'll match two young writers with a professional writer who can mentor them in aspects of creative writing, presenting their work, pursuing education and training opportunities, and more.

The young writers will present their work as part of the annual AfterWords Festival in K'jipuktuk/Halifax. Travel, accommodations, meals, and a reading fee will all be provided to the two young writers for the November event.

A Book Fair for Kids

Stay tuned for details of our first annual KidsFest on Saturday November 4 at Halifax Central Library. Our programming will be presented in both English and French.