The Writer’s Center welcomes five participants from R. O. Kwon’s Short Fiction Intensive for a virtual reading of work produced in the workshop. Featured readers: Margaret Chmiel, Blue Guldal, Alice Kim Hawari, Brent King, and Sergio Muro.
FREE & open to the public. RSVP below.
Marjee Chmiel is a writer, researcher, and documentarian who lives in the DC area with her spouse and their two tiny dogs. She has worked in science storytelling across a variety of organizations and medxia including National Geographic, PBS, the Smithsonian, as a Fulbright specialist in Indonesia, and most recently at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute where she oversees research and evaluation of audience engagement and public understanding of science. She is an alumna of the Stanford Continuing Studies writing program and Kenyon Summer Residential workshops. She has a flash fiction story forthcoming in Bull Lit Mag, and is at work on a novel.
Blue Guldal is a queer, Turkish immigrant, a geneticist, and an editor in nonprofit healthcare. She’s a Tin House, Kenyon and Sewanee alum and a 2025 Lambda Literary fellow. Her stories have appeared in Reckon Review, Occulum and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her work is supported by the Mineral School, Vermont Studio Center and BANFF Centre residencies. She’s currently working on her first novel and lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her partner of twenty-three years. She can be found at blueguldal.com.
Alice Kim Hawari broke away from the tech world to write fiction. When not writing, she romps in the mountains or beaches of California with her husband, three children, and tri-colored dog. She earned her BA from Yale University. Hawari’s yet-to-be published debut novel History of Paradise (a working title) was runner-up for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship.
Brent King practiced emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine for many years. He retired from practice in 2023 and is currently Professor Emeritus, Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. King has published numerous academic articles and chapters in a variety of journals and textbooks. His fiction has been published in New Pop Lit and Bewildering Stories. His latest story was selected as a finalist in the Narrative Magazine Winter Fiction Contest and will appear in an upcoming issue of the magazine. He lives in Baltimore with his surgeon wife and their Bernedoodle, Thor.
Sergio Muro is a Mexican American writer from Laredo, TX, currently based in Austin. He is an assistant editor for American Short Fiction and a reader for the fiction and essay teams at The Rumpus. He is working on a short story collection.
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