ABOUT THIS EPISODE:In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Hope Lauterbach. Hope is the founder and creative director of Unbound Reading Series. In their conversation, Hope talks about creating a space that honours and creates community around black storytelling, and writing. She also talks about what inspired the Unbound Reading Series.

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ABOUT HOPE LAUTERBACH:Hope Lauterbach is a Zambian Canadian writer and poet, a 2021 graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and founder of Unbound, a reading series and growing collective that celebrates Black writers. Her work has been commissioned for the Fraser Valley Literary Festival, and appears in Contemporary Verse 2, emerge 21: The Writer’s Studio anthology, and Pearls. Hope currently resides in that place between sleep and awake.

ABOUT MEGAN COLE:Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She is also a writer based on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. Megan writes creative nonfiction and has had essays published in Chatelaine, This Magazine, The Puritan, Untethered, and more. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King's College and is working her first book. Find out more about Megan at megancolewriter.com

ABOUT THE PODCAST:Writing the Coast is recorded and produced on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. As a settler on these lands, Megan Cole finds opportunities to learn and listen to the stories from those whose land was stolen.

Writing the Coast is a recorded series of conversations, readings, and insights into the work of the writers, illustrators, and creators whose books are nominated for the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. We'll also check in on people in the writing community who are supporting books, writers and readers every day. The podcast is produced and hosted by Megan Cole.