To Love the Coming End

Dunic is publishing excerpts as poems in magazines prior to publication Dunic runs the Powell Street Festival in Vancouver and is well-connected in the local literary and Asian arts communities Separate Canadian and Singaporean publications; both will generate advance press internationally

A novel in 94 micro-chapters whose poetic prose tosses between contemporary Singapore and post-Tohoku Japan, collapsing intimate and seismic desolation.Love is remembered as a jungle of flora and fauna cleaved by tectonic shock and human fault. Our restless narrator stirs between Singapore, Fukushima, and Vancouver with prose that engulfs like radioactive mist. Personal, geographic, political, and cultural environments take on one another's qualities, culminating volcanically in the Tohoku earthquake that shatters Japan. Leanne Dunic won the Alice Munro Short Story Contest and was shortlisted for the Asian-Canadian Emerging Writer Award in 2015. A multidisciplinary artist, she sings and plays guitar for Luck Commander and creates visual art that has been shown in Japan, Singapore, and Canada.