Author Reading with Jeanette Lynes & Melanie Schnell

Hosted by Radiant Press

Author readings with Jeanette Lynes and Melanie Schnell

Thursday, October 16

7 PM

Art Bar - 229 20th St W

Both authors will be reading from their newest works: The Paper Birds by Jeanette Lynes (HarperCollins) and The Chorus Beneath Our Feet by Melanie Schnell (Radiant Press). 

Both books will be available for purchase.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jeanette Lynes is the author of four novels and seven books of poetry. Her fiction has been long listed for The Giller Prize, has received a Saskatchewan Book Award, and most recently has been a finalist for a High Plains Book Award. Her non-fiction, Apron Apocalypse: Lyric Essays, is forthcoming from Thistledown Press. She directs the MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan. The Paper Birds is available online at harpercollins.ca/9781443472814/the-paper-birds/, at your favourite local bookstore, library, or at the event.

Melanie Schnell’s novel, While the Sun is Above Us, was shortlisted for The Fiction Award and Book of the Year award and won the Saskatchewan First Book Award and The City of Regina Award in 2013. The novel has been listed as part of the ELA A30 curriculum in both Public and Catholic schools across Saskatchewan. Melanie has published long and short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Her fiction placed second in the City of Regina Awards in 2010 and 2017. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Regina. She lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.

The Chorus Beneath Our Feet (Release Date Oct 14 2025) is available online at https://radiantpress.ca/shop/p/tcbof, at your favourite local bookstore, library, or at the event.