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.
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.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY HEATHER CONN Part two in a two-part series Every day, the Lombok Sea Turtle Conservation Project in Indonesia requires hundreds of litres of fresh salt water to clean and refill its open-air tanks. Run by the international nonprofit Green Lion, the program uses sea water drawn via portable pumps and long…
I’m lucky that my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket recently appeared on air on the book shelf of Keith Baldrey, Global TV’s bureau chief in Victoria, BC. Keith tells me that this means a viewership of approximately 400,000. What great free promotion! Each year, Keith gets hundreds of books sent to him from publishers…
Celebrate sisterhood with creative women! Enjoy fun self-discovery on INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY with Trained SoulCollage® Facilitator HEATHER CONN Create compelling 5 x 8 collages that represent the inner and outer you. Learn a new form of sharing your life story. No experience necessary. All materials provided. 1 – 4 p.m. Saturday, March 8,…
I interviewed and photographed ch’elkwilwet (Raquel Joe), shíshálh Nation councillor, teacher and weaver, for the summer 2023 issue of Sunshine Coast Life magazine. It was fascinating to learn more of the history of the shíshálh people through their museum artifact kikilim lhe tan (The Grieving Mother), the burial site containing 4,000-year-old remains of a chief…
I’m delighted to present new literary material, inspired by a painting by Gibsons artist Paula O’Brien, at the inaugural Arts & Words event in Davis Bay on Aug. 12 and 13. My Aug. 12 reading, in the 10:30 to noon time slot, is generously sponsored by Canada Council through the Writers’ Union of Canada. The…