From Novels to Poetry: Megan Gail Coles & Jen Sookfong Lee

Megan Gail Coles, Jen Sookfong Lee and Dina Del Bucchia

From Novels to Poetry: Megan Gail Coles & Jen Sookfong Lee

Megan Gail Coles, Jen Sookfong Lee and Dina Del Bucchia

9:00pm

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Canadian novelists Megan Gail Coles and Jen Sookfong Lee come together for a conversation about storytelling through fiction and poetry. After releasing their first poetry collections this year – each received with high praise – the literary masters’ stars are on the rise as they establish themselves as multi-genre masters. Coles’ Satched is an honest, penetrating and darkly comic portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief and the effects of late-stage capitalism. In The Shadow List, Lee explores desire and the politics of who gets to choose and who doesn’t.

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Canadian novelists Megan Gail Coles and Jen Sookfong Lee come together for a conversation about storytelling through fiction and poetry. After releasing their first poetry collections this year – each received with high praise – the literary masters’ stars are on the rise as they establish themselves as multi-genre masters. Coles’ Satched is an honest, penetrating and darkly comic portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief and the effects of late-stage capitalism. In The Shadow List, Lee explores desire and the politics of who gets to choose and who doesn’t.

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Featured Authors

Megan Gail Coles
Megan Gail Coles is the Cofounder and Artistic Director of Poverty Cove Theatre Company, for whom she has written numerous award-winning plays. Her debut short-fiction collection, Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome, won the BMO Winterset Award, the ReLit Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award and the Writers’ Trust of Canada 5×5 Prize. Her debut novel, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the BMO Winterset Award. The Executive Director of Riddle Fence and a PhD candidate at Concordia University, Megan lives in St. John’s.

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Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver’s East Side and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award; The End of East; Finding Home; and The Shadow List. Jen acquires and edits for ECW Press and co-hosts the literary podcast Can’t Lit.

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Dina Del Bucchia
Dina Del Bucchia is a writer, podcaster, literary event host, editor, creative writing instructor and otter and dress enthusiast. She is the author of the short story collection, Don’t Tell Me What to Do, and four collections of poetry, most recently, It’s a Big Deal! She is the Artistic Director of the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, hosts the podcast, Can’t Lit, with Jen Sookfong Lee and is on the editorial board of fine.press. Her chapbook, Douche Process, is available online at ryanfitzpatrick.ca/modelpress/. You can check out her website at dinadelbucchia.com

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9:00pm

Thursday, October 21

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