Cap U workshop on writing erotica
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.
Find out more about my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket
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.
I’m delighted that I’ll be joining seven other authors from publisher Guernica Editions on Sunday, May 28 to launch my new memoir in Toronto. Join us at Supermarket Bar in the city’s Kensington area at 3:30 pm. You’ll hear me read short excerpts from No Letter in Your Pocket: How a daughter…
“Sexual violence is still, to a certain degree, a hidden issue for the average woman,” I told Meggie Royer, editor of the U.S. publication Persephone’s Daughters, during a recent interview. “The #MeToo Movement has been predominantly embodied by very privileged white women. I think it’s wrong that it was a Black woman who came out…
I’ll present 20 of my photographs, with 20 seconds of story-telling for each one, as part of a Pecha Kucha night in Gibsons, BC at the Arts Building on South Fletcher (on the corner beside the library). Eleven different presenters will be sharing their images, starting at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10. You can find…
I’ll be selling new books Emails from India: Women Write Home and Harbour Publishing’s Raincoast Chronicles 22 plus some new, fun products related to my picture book Gracie’s Got a Secret in Gibsons, BC. Author Michael Maser and I will be staffing the MW Book Publishing table at Sunnycrest Mall from 9 a.m. to 5…
As my late husband Frank McElroy was dying at home through 2018-19, it was tough to write about my challenges as a caregiver. Although I couldn’t distance myself from the ongoing experience, I wanted to describe both my conflicting emotions and the overwhelming support and generosity of my local community. The result became the essay…
Life’s challenges can sometimes bring fear and doubt. How do you sustain your faith, allowing it to flourish? What symbols or metaphors represent your faith journey: e.g. a mighty rock, flowing river or immovable mountain? What does faith look and feel like for you? Who or what tests or strengthens it? Please note that as…