Interview on Swiss consulate website
An interview with me regarding my year of college and work in Switzerland in 1976-77 appears on the website of the Swiss consulate in Vancouver, BC. Click here to read it and see related photographs.
Find out more about my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket
An interview with me regarding my year of college and work in Switzerland in 1976-77 appears on the website of the Swiss consulate in Vancouver, BC. Click here to read it and see related photographs.
Prose on the Road: The Art of Travel Writing 1 to 5 p.m., Capilano University, Sechelt campus Do you spin tales of your global adventures but never write them down? This fun workshop helps you move your passion for travel from the road to the page. Through in-class exercises and lively discussion, you learn techniques…
Listen to the podcast here. I enjoyed my chat with Abby Ayoola, host of the Toronto podcast How to Survive Society. We discussed my incest memoir No Letter in Your Pocket and my work coaching authors of trauma memoirs. We talked about how to stay resilient, and find the courage to share your…
Have you thought of writing a memoir but don’t know where to start? Are you in the middle of writing one but feel stuck? I can help writers at any stage of the process. Find out lots of helpful tips at my free workshop “Writing a Memoir: Do You Dare?” on Saturday, Oct. 14 at…
Following publication of my book Vancouver’s Glory Years (co-written with Henry Ewert), the West Ender ran a front-page interview in its Urban Legends section (Dec. 18-23, 2003): “A historian and author recreates Vancouver’s boom, and early fascination with transit.” Book reviews of Vancouver’s Glory Years appeared in the following publications (see Books for excerpts): Coast…
The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, B.C.’s entertainment weekly, has recommended Emails from India on its list of holiday gifts for travellers: Emails From India: Women Write Home Edited by Vancouverite Janis Harper, this book collects vignettes by 27 writers—many of whom are also from Vancouver—who have travelled on the subcontinent. The stories speak to the universal travel…
I was honoured to organize and host an April 15 screening of the documentary Salam Neighbor in Sechelt, BC. This by-donation event, held at St. Hilda’s Church, raised $887, which will go to the Syrian Refugee Sponsorship Committee and two other groups on the Lower Sunshine Coast working to bring Syrian refugee families to this…