First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic
Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington
The featured readers are: Molly Gleeson, Maureen Onyeziri, Cara Hohlt
NOTE NEW LOCATION: Monroe County Public Library in room 1C downstairs
Come early to sign up for Open Mic!
Molly Gleeson spent seven years teaching English overseas in China, Saudi Arabia, and Japan, where she started writing. She is enjoying being home, however, and currently works as a writing tutor at a community college in Bloomington, Indiana. She has been published in Brush Talks, The Sun, The Apeiron Review, The Voices Project, Work Literary Magazine, Way Beyond Borders, among others. She was featured in the podcast The Drunken Odyssey with John King, and was published in the anthology (T)here: Writings on Returnings.
Maureen Chinwe Onyeziri is a doctoral student in Microbiology at Indiana University but dabbles in creative writing when she is not busy studying how bacteria do what they do. An international student from Nigeria, she enjoys writing short fiction and has been published and is forthcoming in several journals and anthologies. She considers writing as therapy, a way to help her escape the often grueling and devastating realities of living in an imperfect world. Her writing cuts across several genres but these days, she finds herself returning to African speculative fiction. She also writes about mental health issues and is a contributing writer for Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative (MANI), Nigeria’s largest youth-run and youth focused mental health organization aimed at fighting the stigma surrounding mental health issues and providing valuable resources for those who struggle. She considers herself an old soul and hopes to author a novel someday, in addition to doing remarkable science.
Cara Hohlt enjoys a well-written sentence fragment nearly as much as a piece of Lindt dark chocolate. She writes poetry and short fiction and has been published locally as a winner in two fiction contests: “Ahmed’s Spring” appeared in The Ryder in 2014 and “The Spinnets Weather a Storm” in Bloom in 2011. Bloomington has been her home for twenty-six years.