Jen Sookfong Lee, Mary Novik and June Hutton are the three novelists who make up the writing group SPiN. We met in a writers’ workshop in 2002 and became friends, making a commitment to stay together until we finished our novels. Five years later, we're still supporting each other and celebrating our successes together.

2007 was a banner year with the publication of Jen's The End of East and Mary’s Conceit, and we’ve embarked on a busy and eventful 2008. The paperback of Jen's The End of East was published in March by Knopf Canada and the Thomas Dunne hardcover will be hitting U.S. bookstores in May. Jen will be reading in New York, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, and Portland in June and May, as well as at the Denman Island Festival in July.

Conceit is the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner for 2008 and we couldn't be more excited! Doubleday Canada will publish the paperback of Conceit in July and Mary will be appearing at the Sunshine Coast Festival in August and at the Vancouver Public Library in October.

As 2008 draws to a close, we’ll be gearing up for the early 2009 publication of June’s Underground by award-winning Canadian publisher Cormorant Books.

Keep checking our News & Events page for details on all of our events and for other up-to-date announcements.