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DESCRIPTION:The Fraser River Literary Festival presents a cocktail recepti
 on and panel discussion at Evergreen Arts. Registration Required. For ages
  16+ \n.\nhttps://coquitlam.libnet.info/event/17092158
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Grab a friend (or two!) and enjoy deliciou
 s food and drink while meeting new people from your community during a coc
 ktail reception at <strong>Evergreen Arts</strong>.</p>\n<p>A panel discus
 sion will follow at 7:00 pm with local authors Janie Chang\, Jonina Kirton
 \, and Katrina Kwan. The panel is moderated by local comedian and author R
 yan Murphy\, with a question and answer period to follow.&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>
 \n<li><strong>Cocktail Reception:</strong> 5:00 - 7:00 pm</li>\n<li><stron
 g>Panel Discussion:</strong> 7:00 - 8:30 pm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>To purchase a
 lcoholic drinks\, you must be 19+ and present valid government issued phot
 o ID.</p>\n<p>Tickets are $20.00 and include access to the reception\, foo
 d\, one drink of your choice\, and the panel discussion. Further drinks wi
 ll be available for purchase at the event. Proceeds will go toward Coquitl
 am Public Library's programs and services.</p>\n<p>If you are only interes
 ted in attending the panel discussion\, registration is free but still req
 uired. Doors open at 6:45.</p>\n<p><strong>Registration required</strong>.
  For ages 16+</p>\n<p>For more information about this&nbsp\;<strong>Fraser
  River Literary Festival</strong>&nbsp\;event\, email&nbsp\;<a href="mailt
 o:ask@coqlibrary.ca">ask@coqlibrary.ca.</a>&nbsp\;</p>\n<hr />\n<p><strong
 >Janie Chang</strong> is a Globe and Mail bestselling author of historical
  fiction. Born in Taiwan\, Chang has lived in the Philippines\, Iran\, Tha
 iland\, New Zealand\, and Canada. Her novels often draw from family histor
 y and ancestral stories. She has a degree in computer science and is a gra
 duate of the Writer&rsquo\;s Studio Program at Simon Fraser University. Sh
 e is the author of Three Souls\, Dragon Springs Road\, The Library of Lege
 nds\, and The Porcelain Moon\; and co-author of the USA Today bestseller T
 he Phoenix Crown\, with Kate Quinn.</p>\n<p><strong>J&oacute\;n&iacute\;na
  Kirton</strong>\, is an Icelandic and Red River M&eacute\;tis poet curren
 tly lives in New Westminster BC\, the stolen lands of the Hul&rsquo\;qumi&
 rsquo\;num speaking peoples. She graduated from the SFU Writers Studio in 
 2007 and was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver&rsquo\;s Mayor
 &rsquo\;s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category.
  Her second collection of poetry\, An Honest Woman\, was a finalist in the
  2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. A Talonbooks author her fourth book\, 
 Save Your Prayers &ndash\; Send Money\, was released April of 2026.</p>\n<
 p><strong>Katrina Kwan</strong> is a Canadian fantasy and contemporary rom
 ance author based in Vancouver. After graduating from Acadia University in
  2017 with a BA in political science with honors\, Kwan spent the next six
  years honing her creative skills as a freelance ghostwriter. With several
  ghostwritten romance novels under her belt\, she's ecstatic to finally be
  writing books under her own name.</p>\nhttps://coquitlam.libnet.info/even
 t/17092158
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