Find out more about my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket
Jamie Dean, host of Toronto’s radio station Indie Love, will be interviewing me live at 5:30 p.m. PST. We’ll be discussing the 2010 Winter Olympics & Paralympics in Vancouver, the event’s impact on Vancouver and the Downtown Eastside, and my blog coverage.
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…
Introduction to MEMOIR WRITING: Share Your Story Do you feel compelled to write about your life, but don’t know where to begin? Does the idea seem both overwhelming and exciting? Maybe you’ve already got pages of material, but they seem to have no direction. This fun workshop will inspire you to start or restart your…
I will be signing copies of Vancouver’s Glory Years in front of Woods Christmas store from 1 to 3 p.m., Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons, BC
I’ll be teaching this workshop: Prose on the Road: The Art of Travel Writing 1 to 5 p.m., Capilano University, Sechelt campus Please register online at www.capilanou.ca/ce/registration-information.html#sunshine-coast
I’ll be teaching the following course: Prose on the Road: The Art of Travel Writing 1 to 5 p.m., Capilano University, Sechelt campus Please register online at www.capilanou.ca/ce/registration-information.html#sunshine-coast.
I’ll be hosting a Memoir Writing Workshop at Gabriels on Gambier Retreat, Gambier Island, BC, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information, please call me at 1-800-601-5611.
I’ll be offering this new workshop in the spring: Prose on the Road: The Art of Travel Writing 1 to 5 p.m., Capilano University, Sechelt campus For more information, please see the Capilano U online catalogue or the Teaching portion of my website. Thanks you.
I’m offering the course Writing Erotica: The Language of Desire 1 to 5 p.m., Capilano University, Sechelt campus. For more information, please see the Teaching section of this website. Thank you.
March 16 – April 27, 2009 (six Saturdays; no class April 13) I’ll be offering Creative Nonfiction Writing from 7 to 9 p.m. at Capilano University, Sechelt Campus. For more details, please see my Teaching section of this website.
The American Immigration Law Foundation, which acted as my sponsor while I worked in the U.S. in 2008, profiled me in its newsletter: http://www.ailf.org/exchange/tom.shtml Heather Conn Explores the Art of Being an American through Cinema The Exchange Visitor Program is pleased to announce Heather Conn as May’s Exchange Visitor of the Month. Each month,…
FEBRUARY 21 – MARCH 25 Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, BC Maya on the Playa: Burning Man — “Local photographer Heather Conn displays images from the last two Burning Man Festivals on the Playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. She documents this eight-day annual Festival which is held as an experiment in community,…
I gave a luncheon talk on A Spiritual Workplace: Reality or Utopia in downtown Vancouver for the Workplace Centre for Spiritual and Ethical Development. I am now a member of the Centre’s board. http://www.workplacecentre.org/page133.htm
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…