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Sunday Afternoon Panel: From Acquired to Acquiring

With Jen Sookfong Lee, Vivek Shraya, Deborah Willis, and Stephanie Domet.

Sunday, March 8
4:30pm to 6pm AT
via Zoom
$10.00

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Jen Sookfong Lee, Vivek Shraya, and Deborah Willis on being writers who edit, and editors who write, in conversation with Stephanie Domet. Audience Q&A.

Speakers

  • 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 Hunger We Pass Down, longlisted for Canada Reads and named a Best Book of 2025 by both the Toronto Star and Winnipeg Free Press; 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; The Shadow List; and Finding Home. Jen acquires and edits for ECW Press.

  • Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, TV, film, and fashion. A three-time Canadian Screen Award winner, Vivek is the creator and writer of the CBC Gem Original Series How to Fail as a Popstar, which had its international premiere at Cannes. She was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize and has collaborated with musical icons Jann Arden, Peaches, and Jully Black. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel.” Vivek has been a brand ambassador for MAC Cosmetics and Pantene, a guest host on The Social and CBC’s q, and she is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation. Vivek’s 11th solo studio recording, New Models, was released in October 2025 on Twin Fang Records, and her 13th book, a dystopian novel, The Hystericals, will be published in Fall 2026 by McClelland & Stewart.

  • Deborah Willis is a writer based in Calgary who has published two acclaimed books of short stories and a novel. Her novel, Girlfriend on Mars, was published in 2023 by Penguin (Canada), W.W. Norton (U.S.), and Serpent's Tail (U.K.) and is translated into Italian, Danish and French. The New York Times lauded the novel's "scorching" humor and Kirkus called the book "[w]insome, sweet, and apocalyptic—a perfect blend for the end of times."

  • Stephanie Domet is the author of two novels, Homing and Fallsy Downsies, both published by Invisible. She also co-wrote a non-fiction book for middle grade readers called Amazing Atlantic Canadian Women, published by Nimbus. She is the co-founder and co-executive director of the AfterWords Literary Festival, and the managing editor of The Dalhousie Review. She is no doubt wearing something she sewed herself.