Book Launch - Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park in conversation with Jenny Heijun Wills

Schedule

Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

163 Lilac Street, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Manitoba R3M 2S1 | Winnipeg, MB

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Join us in store on September 22nd at 1900h (Doors Open 1830h) for the launch of Oxford Soju Club, the debut novel by Korean Canadian author Jinwoo Park, published by Dundurn Press.
Please join us for a conversation with Jinwoo about the book, hosted by the fabulous Jenny Heijun Wills author of Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related & the new essay collection Everything and Nothing at All !
Jinwoo Park is a Korean Canadian writer based in Montreal. He completed a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Oxford, and currently works as a marketer in the tech industry. In 2021, he won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. Oxford Soju Club is his first novel.
Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in Southern Ontario, Canada, and currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir, which received the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Nonfiction and the 2020 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book. She is a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg.
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