Jasmine Sealy, Langara College’s 2025 Writer in Residence, will hold a free public reading and conversation with fellow author Kevin Chong. A reception, along with book sales and signings, will follow the event.  

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Langara College
100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Canada V5Y 2Z6
T Gallery, Level 2 of the T Building
7:00–8:45pm PT (doors open at 6:30pm) 

Space is limited. Please RSVP to guarantee your seat

About Jasmine: 

Jasmine is the winner of the 2020 UBC/HarperCollins Canada Best New Fiction Prize for her debut novel The Island of Forgetting (2022) — also named a best book of 2022 by the CBC, The Globe and Mail, and The Sunday Times in the UK. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and is included in Best Canadian Stories and the Journey Prize anthology.

About Kevin: 

Kevin is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel The Double Life of Benson Yu, a finalist for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize and named a Best Book of Canadian Fiction by the CBC. His books have been named books of the year by Globe and Mail, National Post, and Amazon, listed for a CBC prize, a BC Book Prize, and a National Magazine Award, optioned for film and TV, and published in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. His creative nonfiction and journalism have appeared in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Rumpus, and the South China Morning Post.

If you have any questions, please reach out to writerinresidence@langara.ca.