Wena POON to read at the Frank O'Connor Literary Festival in Cork, Ireland

WENA POON’s Lions In Winter (MPH Publishing, 2008) was recently longlisted for the 2008 International Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. This year’s prize was of course awarded to Jhumpha Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, for her second collection of stories, Unaccustomed Earth (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008).

As a result of the longlist, the Frank O’Connor committee has invited Wena Poon to read from her work at the 2008 Frank O’Connor Literary Festival in Cork, Ireland, on September 17-21, 2008. Jhumpa Lahiri, Yiyun Li, Clare Wigfall (The Loudest Sound and Nothing) and ZZ Packer (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere) are also slated to read.

Heartiest congratulations, Wena and Clare!