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Writer to Writer: Sun Yung Shin and Shannon Gibney

October 4, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Join writers, activists, collaborators, and friends, Sun Yung Shin and Shannon Gibney in a conversation about how they bridge distances between artistic genres, cultural and racial groups, historically marginalized communities, spirituality, and liberatory activism. They will also discuss how others might bridge these gaps. Q&A session to follow.

Register here: https://bit.ly/w2wfall2023

Sun Yung Shin (she/they) is the editor of A Good Time for Truth: Race in Minnesota and two other anthologies of essays. She is also the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Wet Hex, a 2022 finalist for a Minnesota Book Award.

Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), and Dream Country (Dutton, 2018) young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards in 2016 and 2019. Her most recent novel, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be, explores themes of transracial adoption through speculative memoir (Dutton, 2023).

Details

Date:
October 4, 2023
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://bit.ly/w2wfall2023

Organizer

Hennepin County Library
Phone
6125435669
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Venue

Plymouth Library
15700 36th Ave. N.
Plymouth, MN 55446 United States
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