The Fernie Writers Conference 2010


Join the Fernie Writers' Conference this Summer with Governor General’s Award winner Robert Kroetsch (left) and Governor General’s Award Nominees Sid Marty and W.H. New. More than eight award-winning writers will be participating in all.


Click on the image
to watch a short video
about Robert Kroetsch


Our core courses include:

Crafting Fiction


with Peter Oliva
Fiction-Writing


with Steven Heighton
Writing Compelling
Non-Fiction

with Sid Marty
Songwriting
from Scratch

with Mae Moore


Finding the Want,
Defining Desire-Fiction

with Betty Jane Hegerat
Youth Writing
Workshop
with Kim McCullough
Writing in Place
- Poetry
with Alison Calder
Screenwriting
Take One!

with Geo Takach

In addition to the core courses above, the 2010 Conference includes a Festival component open to the public. The two-day festival will be held July 23rd and 24th at Island Lake Lodge, Fernie Alpine Resort and Historic Downtown Fernie.

For further information or to request updates as they are made available please contact info@ferniewriters.com.