NOC 2021 · 51111 · TEER 1
Authors and writers (except technical)
Unit group 51111 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Authors and writers plan, research and write books, scripts, storyboards, plays, essays, speeches and other non-journalistic articles for publication or presentation. They are employed by advertising agencies, governments, large corporations, private consulting firms, publishing firms, multimedia/new-media companies and other establishments, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- ad writer
- advertising copywriter
- advertising writer
- author
- biographer
- blogger
- content creator - writing
- content writer (except technical)
- copywriter
- crossword puzzle maker
- designer and script writer
- dialogue writer
- dubbing dialogue writer
- essayist
- feature writer
- fiction writer
- ghost writer
- humorist-author
- interactive media writer
- lexicographer
- literary writer
- multimedia author
- multimedia script writer
- multimedia writer
- new media writer
- novelist
- playwright
- poet
- publicity writer
- radio writer
- rewriter
- screen writer
- script and dialogue writer
- script writer
- serial story writer
- serial writer
- short story writer
- speech writer
- sports writer - novels and books
- storyboarder
- teleplay writer - screenwriter
- television writer
- Web content specialist
- writer
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.