UPCOMING EVENTS

June 11, 2025, Speaker, Fort Langley Food & Friends Lecture Series, 9160 Church Street, Fort Langley, BC: Journeys Across Cultural Boundaries.

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  Club Sala, Mexico. Photo by Don Wright.

SELECTED PAST EVENTS

• 2024
• • Reading & Signing, Port Moody Public Library Authors Fair, Port Moody, BC
  • Signing, Chapters Indigo – 2015 Langley Bypass, Langley, BC
  • Signing, Chapters Indigo – Metrotown, Burnaby, BC
  • Signing, Chapters Indigo – 2991 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC
  • Signing, Chapters Indigo – 3147 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC
  • Speaker, Open Circle, Ajijic, Mexico: Journeys Across Cultural Boundaries
• 2018
  • Reading, Writers in our Midst, Gallery Bistro, Port Moody, BC
• 2017
  • Speaker, Open Circle, Ajijic, Mexico: Yoshida’s Sword, Research Coincidences.
• 2016 
  • Guest presenter, Literary Café, Crescent Beach, BC
• 2015
  • Launch of The Greatest Lover of Last Tuesday, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, Vancouver, BC
  • Meet the Authors, Walnut Grove Library, Langley, BC
  • Workshop, Writing Humour, LITFEST NEW WEST 2015, New Westminster, BC
  • Workshop, Writing Humour, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, Vancouver, BC
  • Workshop, Writing Humour, Innisfail Public Library, Innisfail, AB
• 2014
  • Workshop Presenter, Federation of BC Writers, Tofino, BC: Put Humour in Your Writing.
• 2013
  • Speaker, Open Circle, Ajijic, Mexico: Humour and Comedy Writing.
• 2012
  • Featured Writer, North Delta Reading Series, Delta, BC
  • Workshop Presenter, Lake Chapala Writer’s Conference, Ajijic, Mexico
• 2011
  • Reading, The Word On The Street Festival, Lethbridge, AB 
  • Workshop Presenter, Write On Bowen Festival, Bowen Island, BC: Incorporating Humour into Your Writing.
• 2010
  • Speaker, Steveston Lunch & Lecture Series, Richmond, BC: Writing Humour.
  • Speaker, Friends of the Library, Hope, BC: Writing Humour.
  • Workshop Presenter, Royal City Book Festival, New Westminster, BC: Writing With Humour. 
  • Reading, Galeria Dos Lunas, Ajijic, Mexico
• 2009
  • Signing, Lake Chapala Society Book Fair, Ajijic, Mexico
  • Speaker, Canadian Authors Association, Vancouver, BC: Humour in Fiction. Read William Hay’s Blog
  • Reading, The Writer’s Studio, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
  • Speaker, North Shore Writers’ Association, West Vancouver, BC: Writing Humour.
  • Workshop Presenter, Puerto Vallarta Writers’ Conference, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: Incorporating Humour into Your Writing.
• 2008
  • Signing, Black Bond Books, Richmond, BC
• 2007
  • Workshop Presenter, Innisfail Public Library, Innisfail, AB: Travel Writing.
  • Reading, Writer’s Guild of Alberta Annual Meeting, Grande Prairie, AB
  • Reading, Alberta Librarians Association Meeting, Grande Prairie, AB
  • Signing, Chapters Books, Broadway & Granville, Vancouver, BC
  • Signing, Chapters Books, Metrotown, Burnaby, BC
  • Reading, Talisman Books & Gallery, Pender Island, BC
  • Signing, Chapters Books, Richmond, BC
  • Reading, Evening with the Authors: 2007 Alberta Literary Award Nominees, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Calgary, AB
  • Reading, Club Sala, Lake Chapala Society, Ajijic,
    

    Before the launch, Calgary Public Library

    Mexico

• 2006
  • Reading, The Word on the Street, Calgary, AB
  • Readings in Public Libraries in Vancouver, Kamloops, Kelowna, Vernon, Edmonton, Lloydminster, North Battleford, Prince Albert, Brandon, Togo, Yorkton, Moose Jaw, Regina, Swift Current, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Calgary
  • Reading, Togo Centenial Reunion, Togo, SK
• 2005
  • Panelist/Speaker, Lake Chapala Writers’ Conference, Ajijic, Mexico: Agents & Publishers.

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