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.
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…
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,…
Discover how B.C.’s Sakinaw salmon were saved.What emergency visits did doctors make by boat on the coast in the 1980s? I’ll be doing a brief reading and presentation, with slide-show images, as part of the Sunshine Coast launch of Raincoast Chronicles 22: Saving Salmon, Sailors and Souls. This will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 4…
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 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
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…