The University of Toronto’s Hart House was the setting for the June 20 launch of Writing Life. Proceeds from sales of the anthology, published by McClelland & Stewart and edited by PEN Canada president Constance Rooke, will benefit PEN Canada. (Photos by Ian Crysler.)

Portia Leggat and Wendy Pitblado check out Writing Life.

M&S fiction publisher Ellen Seligman catches up with former M&S marketing director and current LongPen pitchman Bruce Walsh, as author Camilla Gibb listens in.

 Isobel Harry, Janet Somerville, and author Alison Gordon.

PEN Canada past president and Toronto Star columnist Haroon Siddiqui turns on the charm.

Guest of honour June Callwood and her escort.

Knopf Canada v-p Louise Dennys, Jane Urquhart, Leon Rooke, M&S fiction publisher Ellen Seligman, and Marsha Butterfield.

Volunteers Linda Kanelakos and Jennifer Kuratczyk.

Joseph Boyden, Barry Callaghan, and Haroon Siddiqui share a laugh.

Authors Howard Engel and Jane Urquhart.

Playwright Susan Coyne, writer Bernice Eisenstein, and a skeptical Jonathan Garfinkel.