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Writing Short Stories with Gina Chung and Yun Ko-eun

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Is the short story a fiction writer’s laboratory where you can experiment with characters, plots, and ideas? or is it an art form of its own, telling a complete story in just a few words? What does a short story need to have in order to be successful that is different from a novel? And what makes the writers return to this form of writing again and again?


Join us for a conversation between Gina Chung (Green Frog, Sea Change) and Yun Ko-eun (Table for One, The Disaster Tourist) about the art of short story writing in English and Korean.

 

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Writing Short Stories with Gina Chung and Yun Ko-eun

In-Person: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 | 6:30 PM (EDT)

Video Release: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 


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About the Speakers:

Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the short story collection Green Frog (out March 12, 2024 from Vintage in the U.S. and June 6, 2024 from Picador in the U.K.) and the novel Sea Change, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a 2023 B&N Discover Pick, an APALA Adult Fiction Honor Book, and a New York Times Most Anticipated Book. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, she is a 2021-2022 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. 

Yun Ko-eun is the winner of 2021 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation and was the first Asian writer to receive the award. Her prizewinning novel The Disaster Tourist was praised as an ecothriller by English language media and received positive reviews throughout the US and UK. It was shortlisted for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Rosetta Awards, Comedy Women in Print Awards, and the Dublin Literature Award. The Disaster Tourist has been sold to 11 Countries, the UK, America, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Latvia, Poland, China, Taiwan and Japan. The TV series adaptation of The Disaster Tourist will be made in English, and Yun will be an executive producer. Table for One is Yun's first collection of short stories to be translated into English. Her second novel in translation is Art on Fire, published in Korea in 2023.


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