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One Page Wednesday – August

Wed, Aug 7, 2024 from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
716 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214

Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired.

Our host is the one and only, Emme Lund. The featured reader for August is Jen Shin.

Emme Lund

Emme Lund

Emme Lund is an author living and writing in Portland. She has an MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Electric LiteratureTIME MagazineThe RumpusRomperthe Portland Mercury, and Autostraddle, among many other venues. In 2019, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction. Her debut novel, The Boy with a Bird in His Chest(Atria Books, 2022) was longlisted for the First Novel Prize from the Center For Fiction, was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award,  named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed and The Portland Mercury, and was included on lists in The Washington PostUSA TodayPeople MagazineThe AdvocateCosmopolitan, and Shondaland.

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Jen Shin

Jen Shin

Jen Shin is a Korean American writer, baker, and mental health advocate with more than a decade in recovery from alcoholism and bulimia. She is currently at work on Bad Magic, a coming-of-age addiction memoir which examines how we return to our true selves after reality and illusion become one. She is a 2023 Periplus Fellow and has received support from Anaphora Arts, Fish Trap, Stove Works, and the Regional Arts & Culture Council. In 2021, she published Have You Received Previous Psychotherapy or Counseling? through zines + things and her essays can be found in The Rumpus, Memoir Magazine, Oregon Humanities, and elsewhere.

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