About this Event
You are invited to our next Hawthornden Brooklyn in Conversation event!
Current Hawthornden Brooklyn writers in residence Jung Hae Chae, Georgie Codd, Sakinah Hofler, Madison Jamar, Cleo Qian, Monica West and Ada Zhang will read and discuss their work.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Space is limited. Exact location will be shared via a reminder email two days before the event. You will only receive this email if you RSVP.
If you will need accessible seating, or have any other questions, please email [email protected]. You can learn more about Hawthornden Brooklyn here.
Jung Hae Chae is the author of the forthcoming memoir-in-essays, POJANGMACHA PEOPLE, winner of the 2022 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. The book explores the matrilineal inheritance of han in the Korean diaspora. Chae’s writing can be found in AGNI, Guernica, New England Review, Ploughshares, swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse), and is anthologized in the 2019 Pushcart Prize and the 2022 Best American Essays collections. She has received support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Bread Loaf, MacDowell, Millay Arts, Sewanee Writers Conference, Sustainable Arts Foundation, among others.
Georgie Codd's first nonfiction novel, We Swim To The Shark – exploring scuba diving, giant fish and the roots of fear – was published in 2020, sparking coverage from the BBC, TLS, ABC Melbourne and more. That spring, in partnership with Wasafiri Magazine, Georgie created the lockdown-inspired ‘antiviral’ literary festival BookBound 2020, which raised funds for mental health charities and won a Time Out Award by public vote. In 2022, her next project, Never Had a Dad – a personal quest to find a father figure by ‘dadvertising’ in newspapers and magazines – caught the attention of This American Life, and was previewed to millions worldwide. The book was published in 2024, and has since featured on the BBC World Service, as well as in The Times, The Daily Mail and others. It’s now under option for a TV series with a major production company. Georgie lives on the south coast of England.
Sakinah Hofler is the author of the forthcoming debut novel, Stable (Holt, 2027). She has won the Manchester Fiction Prize, a Hurston/Wright Award, the Yemasee Poetry Prize, the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize, and the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, among other journals, and her plays have been produced by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. She was named a 2024 FORGE NYC Fellow and the 2024 winner of the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices. Her work has received support from the Albert C. Yates Foundation, the Kingsbury Foundation, the de Groot Foundation, the Taft Research Center, and the P.E.O. Scholar Award. A former chemical engineer for the United States Department of Defense, she currently teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University. She lives in Newark, NJ.
Madison Jamar is a writer from Columbus, Ohio who lives and works in New York City. Her essays have been published in Design Observer, Angel Food, Black Lipstick, Polyester, and more. You can find a full list of her publications and recent writing at her website, Late 2 the Party (late2theparty.net).
Cleo Qian is a queer writer of fiction and poetry. She is the author of Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go, which was a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence and a TIME Best Book of 2024. Her work has appeared in outlets including American Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA, The Sun, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Witness, and mercury firs. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, The University of Notre Dame, Macdowell, UCross, and others.
Monica West's debut novel Revival Season was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Barnes and Noble Discover selection, and short-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her second novel Light the Way will be published by Putnam in Spring 2027. Monica received her B.A. from Duke University, her M.A. from New York University, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. She has received additional fellowships and funding from Ragdale, Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Washington. She currently lives in Seattle.
Ada Zhang is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and a Whiting Award winner. Her short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She was the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The Sorrows of Others, her first book, was long listed for The Story Prize. She is from Austin, Texas.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hawthornden Brooklyn, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, United States
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