If you are a journalist and are interested in writing about the Surrey International Writers' Conference or one or more of our presenters, please contact kc dyer at kcdyer at siwc.ca for more information.
If you have written about the conference, thank you! We'd love to post either the entire story or a link to it. Please send us a copy of your published story.
High Resolution Photos
Here are just of few of the photos available in high resolution for people
writing about the Surrey International Writers' Conference. Please also
have a look at our photo
gallary ...
most of those photos are also available in high res. For copies, please
contact the webmaster Dale McGladdery (webmaster at siwc.ca) and give the conference
year, sub-album name and caption or image number.
Photo credit unless asked otherwise: "Photo: Surrey International Writers' Conference"
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Diana Gabaldon, long-time conference presenter, as well as sponsor and one of the final judges in the fiction category of our contest. Additional photos available. Best-selling author of the Outlander series, including Amazon.com's #1 romance pick for 2005: A Breath of Snow and Ashes. |
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Bob Mayer and Jenny Crusie at the 2005 SiWC. Keynote as well as paired and individual workshop photos are also available. From their website "In 2005, Bob Mayer and Jenny Crusie wrote Don't Look Down without killing each other, a miracle in itself. He Wrote, She Wrote is the continuing saga of their partnership during 2006... writing their next work of genius, Agnes and the Hitman. Warning: Some Violence and Much Strong Language." |
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Donald Maass (left), a top literary agent, signs one of his books at the SiWC book fair in 2005. He is the author of fourteen pseudonymous novels and of the books The Career Novelist, Writing the Breakout Novel and Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook. He met his wife at the conference— Lisa Rector-Maass, who is also a presenter here. Additional photos available, plus photos of Lisa. |
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Jack Whyte — long-time presenter as well as sponsor and one of the final judges in the fiction category of our contest. in the course of spending these annual weekends with us over more than a decade, as a regular conference participant, Jack has generated a nine-book series of best-selling novels, set in post-Roman, fifth-century Britain, that have opened a completely new and non-mystical window into the legends of King Arthur and Camelot. Additional photos are available. |
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One of Jessica Page Morrell's over-flow workshops at the 2005 SiWC. She works as writing coach and freelance editor and book doctor. Close-up photos available. |
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Local bestselling author Michael Slade writes modern thrillers drawn from his career as a criminal lawyer; bestselling author Anne Perry's crime beat is Victorian England. Individual and group photos available. |
SiWC Logos
All fonts have been converted to outlines.
- SiWC logo EPS file (Illustrator 8)
- SiWC logo REVERSE EPS file (Illustrator 8)
- SiWC logo PDF file
SiWC Location Links & Tourism
Surrey is a suburb of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, just north of
the Washington state border.
- Tourism BC www.hellobc.com
- Surrey Tourism & Convention Association www.surreytourism.ca
- City of Surrey www.surrey.ca







