Join the Coquitlam Public Library after hours for a special moderated panel of local authors.
Can't decide on which local author talk to attend during the Tri-Cities Writers Festival? Drop-in to the Library after hours for a unique experience featuring a panel discussion with Iona Whishaw, Harrison Mooney and Kevin Chong. This event will be moderated by local comedian and author Ryan Murphy and is our feature event for our festival.
This will be a conversation followed by a question and answer period.
No registration required. All ages welcome.
Entry to the event for everyone will start at 6:45 pm.
For more information about this Tri-Cities Writers Festival event, email ask@coqlibrary.ca.
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RYAN MURPHY is an award-winning writer and editor who has created engaging digital content for some of the largest and most trusted brands in the world including Walt Disney Studios, HBO, and many more.
His critically acclaimed short stories and columns have been published in 21 books and have been featured on more than 170 radio stations and 60 newspapers and magazines across North America. https://www.ryanmurphywrites.com
HARRISON MOONEY is a best-selling memoirist and award-winning journalist from Abbotsford, British Columbia. His debut memoir, Invisible Boy, was the winner of the 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for nonfiction, and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award in memoir nonfiction. Harrison's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Vancouver Sun, the Guardian, Yahoo, Maclean's and the Tyee, where his columns appear regularly. He lives in East Vancouver with his family. Learn more about Harrison at https://www.harrisonmooney.ca
KEVIN CHONG is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently the novel The Double Life of Benson Yu, which was a finalist for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize and named a Best Book of Canadian Fiction by the CBC. His creative nonfiction and journalism have recently appeared in Time Magazine, Literary Hub, Montecristo, and the Globe and Mail. An associate professor at the UBC Okanagan, he lives in Vancouver with his family. See https://thatkevinchong.com/ for more details about Kevin.
IONA WHISHAW is a former educator and social worker whose mother and grandfather were both spies during their respective wars. She is the award-winning author of the Globe and Mail bestselling Lane Winslow Mystery series. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband. For more details, visit https://ionawhishaw.ca/
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