Jan Markely attended our conference last year, and her debut novel will be published this fall. She'll be back at the conference, so you can congratulate her in person, but if you'd like to read her story on-line you can find her blog here: http://janmarkley.blogspot.com/ and her website here: http://deadfrogontheporch.com/

Way to go, Jan!

~kc dyer

also blogging as leftwriter

sweetly tweeting @kcdyer

Couple of nice references to SiWC as being different from the other conferences out there to be found HERE.

~kc

also blogging as leftwriter

Another nice mention in the Vancouver Sun:

Writer weekend puts Surrey on the Map

Many thanks to Sun Writer Rebecca Wigod for the mention!

SiWC is popping up all over the place in blogs, as we get ever closer to our 2008 event.

A couple of the sites sharing the link love include Literary Photographer, and Surrey Writers .

Thanks for spreading the word!

 ~kc

also blogging as leftwriter

We are hoping to get a video podcast of Michael Slade telling stories up on the site very soon, but in the meantime, you can get a taste of Slade....

 on Rue Morgue Radio. (Check the archives for the July 4th, 2008 show to download the MP3 file) 

Click here: Slade on Rue Morgue Radio

~kc

also blogging as leftwriter 

A nice reference to our conference in the Vancouver Sun today. (Find it here: Vancouver Sun Article -- Meet The Writers). Make sure you check our registration page for accurate prices.

Many thanks to Sun Writer Rebecca Wigod for the mention!

~kc

also blogging as leftwriter

The City of Surrey gives the Surrey International Writers Conference a mention on their Event page:

http://www.surrey.ca/Visiting+Surrey/Events/Event+Page...

A Surrey International Writers' Conference in the July 27, 2008 issue of the Cloverdale Reporter:

Writers ready for annual conference

The 16th Annual Surrey International Writers' Conference Line-up of authors, poets, editors and agents is now available online at www.siwc.ca.

SiWC takes place at the Sheraton in Guildford from October 24 to 26. Master Classes will be on October 23.

Popular best-selling authors Anne Perry, Diana Gabaldon, Michael Slade and Jack Whyte are back, as well as new key-note speakers this year will include award winning and Pulizer prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski who holds a Knight Chair in Editing at Missouri School of Journalism, Colorado author Carol Berg and Anthony Dalton, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Explorers club.

PDF of full article available from the link below.

CTV has rated Michael Slade's thirteenth novel CRUCIFIED as a Hot Summer Read. Some interesting numbers from the author himself:

Read the CTV review here: CRUCIFIED Review.

~kc 

Literary agent Kristin Nelson (of the Nelson Agency) talks about picking up new clients -- one of them at the Surrey International Writers' Conference.

Article here: My Eight New Clients and Where They Came From