6th Annual Whistler Readers & Writers Festival

Welcome to the sixth annual Whistler Readers and Writers Festival. We are excited about our line-up and our first ever Writer in Residence, Paulette Bourgeois who will be in Whistler for the entire month of September working with ten emerging writers.

One of our goals is to create opportunities in Whistler for writers to develop their craft, and grow the region’s reputation as a creative centre. Hosting a Writer in Residence was the next step in meeting this goal.

Our program this year goes beyond writers and incorporates seminars and reading events for readers, would be writers, closet writers/readers and emerging and experienced writers.

Seminars include CBC radio host Mark Forsythe on Writing for Radio; prolific magazine writer and former Creative Director of BC Skier Magazine, Leslie Anthony on Travel Writing, and Breaking Into Magazines; West Jet's wandering poet Wendy Morton on How to Make a Living from Your Art; the Urban Peasant James Barber on Writing about Food.

And this is only a small sample of what greets the reader and writer at the 2007 Whistler Readers and Writers Festival.

To register  please email Stella Harvey .

Please click below to download the full 2007 program guide.