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My memoir makes silent appearance on Baldrey’s Global TV book shelf

ByHeather Conn

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 and does his best to promote them on his TV book shelf. Keith and I know each other from our university student media days. On a recent trip to Victoria, he gave my friend Chris and me a private tour of the legislature, press room, media offices, his broadcasting studio, and the legislative library, which has Shakespearean books from the 1600s. We got to hear entertaining insider anecdotes and even watched his live broadcast sitting next to his desk. A wonderful surprise and treat. Thanks, Keith.

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Cancel culture: Consider a case-by-case response

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The following is my final post in a three-part series addressing the sexual assault of Alice Munro’s daughter by her stepfather. Alice Munro’s daughter Andrea Robin Skinner has said that she does not want her public revelations regarding sexual abuse by her stepfather Gerald Fremlin to destroy her mother’s legacy. Instead, she would like her…

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Judy Chicago and Deena Metzger: two feminist inspirations profiled

ByHeather Conn

I was delighted to interview author and poet Deena Metzger for a feature in the winter 1996 issue of Herizons, Canada’s feminist magazine. Click this Deena Metzger link to read my feature The Power of Writing: A Workshop with Deena Metzger. Since then, I’ve met Deena three more times at different U.S. conferences over the…