Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Greg Gerrard
Fred Stenson
BIO
Biography
Stenson has published twenty books. He is two time winner of Alberta's Grant MacEwan Author Prize and also winner of The Writers' Guild of Alberta novel award. His novel The Trade was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2000. His novel The Great Karoo was a finalist for the Governor General's Award in 2008. He has served on TWUC national council three times and was president of the Writers Guild of Alberta in 1996. He has written scripts for over 150 produced films and videos. He writes a humour column for Alberta Views Magazine. He was raised on a farm in the Alberta foothills north of Chief Mountain and returned to live in nearby Pincher Creek in 2018. He is at work on a novel.
ADDRESS
City: Pincher Creek/Treaty 7,
Province/Territory: Alberta
EMAIL
fstenson@shaw.ca
GENRE
fiction/ non-fiction
LANGUAGES
English
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
All members are eligible for the Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program. Are you interested in participating in this pro
No
Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
The Union’s Northern Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program funds in-person visits to northern Ontario schools when possible. Ar
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