Fenner, C. 1919, Apprentice education, Science and Industry, pp. 500–4.

Fenner, C. 1924, Apprentice training. An experiment in compulsory specialized adolescent education. S.A. Education Department Bulletin No. 1.

Fenner, C. E. ed. 1934, Occupations for Boys and Girls. S.A. Education Department.

Fenner, C. 1934, An Intermediate Geography of South Australia. Whitcomb and Tombs Pty. Ltd. (Written for secondary school students, this book went through seven editions.)

Fenner, C. 1935–6, One Hundred Years of Education: Part 5, Technical Schools and Colleges; Part 7, Special Developments from the Education Act of 1915. Modern Ideas in Printing, vol. X, Printers' Trade School, Adelaide.

Fenner, C. 1936, The value and importance of apprenticeship, S.A. Education Department Education Gazette, January 1936.

Fenner, C. 1937, Some notes on technical education: what is being done elsewhere. S.A. School of Mines, Annual Report, pp. 45–51.

Fenner, C. 1939, Some Aspects of Transition from School to Workshop. Australian Council for Educational Research, Melbourne University Press.

Fenner, C. 1939, The cultural value of technical education. The Education Gazette, No. 649, vol. LVI, p. 176.

Trends in education. Address given by Dr Fenner at the Teachers' College, published in the S.A. Teachers' Journal, 23 December, 1939.

Fenner, C. 1940, Individual educational requirements for modern citizenship. S.A. Education Department Bulletin No. 8.

Fenner, C. 1941, Education (Simple Views on a Complex Problem). Printers' Trade School, Adelaide.

Fenner, C. 1942, Education in South Australia: Present Tendencies and Post-war Possibilities. S.A. Education Department.

Fenner, C. 1945, South Australian schools. S.A.Teachers' Journal, for celebration of the fiftieth year of the South Australian Public Teachers' Union.

Fenner, C. 1946, Tendencies in education in South Australia. Handbook of the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Adelaide.

The Education Gazette, between 1917 and 1946, had short articles on Adventures in Art, Ernabella—a Freedom School, What is the Aim of Our Schools?, Village Surveys, and the Australia Language. There were also Introductory Notes to a number of educational works, extracts from several addresses, and reviews of 23 books covering many aspects of education.

Reports to the Minister of Education were submitted by Charles Fenner as Superintendent of Technical Education from 1917 to 1938, and as Director of Education from 1939 to 1946. All were published in South Australian Parliamentary Papers each year.