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Author Night with Megan Doney and Chanlee Luu
Venue: Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
Blacksburg Books presents an Author Night with Megan Doney and Chanlee Luu on Thursday, October 17, 2024.

Join us as we host Megan Doney and Chanlee Luu, winners of the Washington Writers Publishing House Prize in nonfiction and poetry, respectively.

After surviving a school shooting at New River Community College in Christiansburg, Virginia, English professor Megan Doney was traumatized and adrift. Rather than hardening her heart and life, she wrote "Unarmed: An American Educator’s Memoir". An insightful response to American gun violence and illusions of public and private safety, it’s also about her journey over the past decade toward living with an open heart, alive to luck, learning, and love.

Chanlee Luu author of "The Machine Autocorrects Code to I", a knock-out debut that erases the boundaries of time and geography with unrestrained wit, "The Machine Autocorrects Code to I" holds its subjects, family members at odds with their hopes and fears, various fruits and animals constrained by the laws of humans, and an alien seeking beauty in the world with tenderness and wry knowledge of the fragile systems that hold their world in place. This universe of poems wanders through the messy past, battles in the charged present, and dreams/nightmares to the unknown future. In this experiment in forms, Chanlee Luu is a mad scientist, cracking Asian jokes, shoveling golden sand, and coding her voice to vitality. The authors will read from their books as well as talk about the writing process and getting published with a small press.

This event is open to everyone and no registration is necessary.

Blacksburg Books is located at 401 South Main Street, Suite 106 in Blacksburg, VA.

For more information, visit: https://www.blacksburgbooks.com/events/author-night-with-megan-doney-chanlee-luu or https://www.facebook.com/Blacksburg.Books or https://www.instagram.com/blacksburg_books/ or call 540-315-9650.