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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Festival 2004    July 22 - 25

Fred Stenson

Fred Stenson is a Calgary-based writer of fiction, non-fiction and film. In the fall of 2003, his fourth novel, Lightning, was published by Douglas & McIntyre. In 2002, Thing Feigned or Imagined, a guide to the craft of fiction, was published by Banff Centre Press. The Trade (Douglas & McIntyre, 2000), a novel set in the Canadian fur trade, was nominated for the 2000 Giller Prize and the 2001 IMPAC Dublin Award. The novel won three fiction prizes including the inaugural Grant MacEwan Author’s Prize, The City of Edmonton book Prize and the Writers Guild of Alberta’s George Bugnet Novel Award.  His other novels are Lonesome Hero and Last One Home. 

He has three collections of short fiction: Working Without a Laugh Track, Teeth and Three Times Five and has edited two collections of Alberta writing: Alberta Bound and The Road Home.  His scriptwriting credits include The Great March and World of Horses.  This is his third year as director of the Wired Writing Studio.  He has been on the faculty of several Banff Centre for the Arts writing programs.