1. Your Business Enjoys Local and Social Media Coverage
Our sponsors enjoy local and social media exposure through all our marketing and outreach activities and coverage of our longrunning writers festival. Event sponsors enjoy event-specific paid advertising and signage during the festival.
2. Raises Your Profile With Local and Tourist Festival Visitors
Becoming a sponsor of the NorthWords Writers Festival gives you a presence among our diverse local and visiting Festival attendees. Promotes your business’ support of northern arts and literary culture.
3. Advertises Your Business in Our Posters & Programs
Our generous sponsors will be acknowledged in promotional and marketing materials, including our website, event signage, and festival programs.
4. Boosts Your Online Presence With Links From Our Site
People interested in the festival, as well as year-round writing workshops and literary events in Yellowknife and the NWT, visit the NorthWords NWT website regularly. We offer sponsors the opportunity to include your website logo and link on our site.
5. Publicly Acknowledge Your Support of Northern Literary Culture
By partnering with us, you’re showcasing your business’s commitment to strengthening NWT’s cultural and literary community. You can help raise the profile of the festival as a treasured northern event on the national literary scene.
What Your Northwords NWT Corporate Sponsorship Does
Please note that we are not yet a registered charitable organization, and we are therefore unable to issue charitable donation tax receipts at this time. As a corporate sponsor, you will also help support NorthWords NWT’s year round programming to encourage and develop northern writers. Past and current programming includes writing contests, workshops, peer-led writing circles, book clubs, and “open mic” nights.
1. Supports the Annual NorthWords Writers Festival
As a non-profit northern organization, we depend on corporate sponsors to supplement the public funding available for holding the annual writers festival. This enables us to offer low cost or free events to the general public.
2. Year-Round Youth Literary Programming
NorthWords programs help northern youth in developing strong self-esteem, and a better understanding of others while encouraging a love of community through reading and writing. NorthWords offers a special youth-focused workshop series that runs from October to March. It culminates in a 2-day youth writing retreat.
In addition to our youth workshops, Northwords also encourages youth writing through an
annual writing contest.
Your contribution will help provide continued programming to nurture NWT writers of all ages.
3. Workshops, Writing Contests and Special Events
Your support will help to ensure that NorthWords can provide year-round support to northern authors through a variety of workshops, readings and special events such as the 2017 Evening of Poetry and Jazz featuring then Canadian Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke alongside local jazz musicians Andrew Jossa and Sean Robson.