Surrey International Writers' Conference

2007 Speakers List > Detail about Presenter

2007 Presenters (Authors, Agents, Editors & Producers)

Anthony Dalton, Author

Anthony Dalton is an author and public speaker. He writes non-fiction books about the sea and about exploration. His illustrated non-fiction articleson diverse subjects have been published in magazines and newspapers in twenty countries and ten languages. As a public speaker he has appeared at conventions, conferences and meetings across Canada, the USA, and in the United Kingdom.

A British-born Canadian adventurer and author he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Explorers Club. His expeditions have taken him across the Sahara many times, through the deserts of the Middle East, into the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan, on dangerous Arctic waters, and canoeing wilderness rivers in northern Canada. He was the organizer and leader of a CBC-TV filming expedition to the Saharan salt mines of Taoudenit in northern Mali, and participated in a television documentary on great Canadian rivers for the Discovery Channel.

Magazine assignments have taken him to the Australian Outback, the Falkland Islands, Namibia, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, among others. Plus, Dalton has tracked Royal Bengal tigers on foot through the dense Sundarbans jungle of Bangladesh, survived a small-boat capsize in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska"s north-west coast, and sailed as crew on the mighty windjammers of the Russian and Ukrainian tall-ship fleets. Dalton is President of the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Authors Association www.canauthorsvancouver.org and a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

Workshop(s)

A Mystery in Six (+) Parts (workshop) A panel of best-selling mystery novelists talk about their favourite sub-genres – to write and to read. A look at detective stories, police procedurals, legal thriller, cozy, historical, and more!

Capturing the Spirit: The Keys to Writing Biography and Memoir (workshop) How is biography different from other non-fiction material? How important is accurate research? How much information is too much? Learn the secrets to this important genre from two masters of the craft.

Adding Creativity to Non-Fiction (workshop) Creative non-fiction is the literary art of bending traditional non-fiction rules by employing fiction skills, without straying too far from the non-fiction path. Non-fiction doesn’t have to be dull and two-dimensional; learn techniques including using diary entries, interview transcripts, personal letters and subjective commentary to add sparkle to your work.