Fa la la la…ugh: Better Next Year with JJ Lee, Joanna Baxter, and Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho
Sunday, December 10 at 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Free
Join local authors JJ Lee, Joanna Baxter and Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho as they share excerpts from Better Next Year, an anthology of diverse, disastrous, and disarming Christmas stories.
For this in-person event:
- Doors open at 2:45 p.m.
- Registration is required
- Seating is general admission
JJ Lee’s debut book, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, was a finalist for the Hilary Weston, Charles Taylor, Hubert Evans and Governor General’s awards for non-fiction. For ten years, he was a contributor, reporter, producer, and host for CBC Radio and now leads a non-fiction workshop at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University.
Joanna Baxter co-founded and co-hosted a quarterly reading event and podcast called Spiel_Vancouver to support local emerging writers. She is currently working on a collection
of short stories. Joanna lives with her husband and two teenagers on Vancouver’s North Shore.
Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho is an award-winning author whose short stories and personal essays have appeared in River Teeth, ROOM, PRISM international, Ricepaper, WordWorks, and the anthology Chrysanthemum: Voices of the Taiwanese Diaspora. A member of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, she also serves on the boards of the Federation of BC Writers and the North Shore Writers’ Association.
