Participants in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival have the option of attending two writing workshops. Our 2026 Schedule page will have details on time and place. Please Register for the festival day to attend writing workshops.
2026 Writing Workshop Leaders
- Ron Charles
- E. Ethelbert Miller
- Hannah Grieco
- Nate Brown
- More TBD
Ron Charles
Ron Charles came to The Washington Post in 2005 and became the editor of Book World in 2016. He is now a full-time writer for the Post, where he covers books and produces the weekly Book Club newsletter. In 2010 he began a series of video book reviews for the Post called “The Totally Hip Video Book Review,” a satirical look at current books in the news and the art of book reviewing which sometimes features his wife, high school English teacher Dawn Charles. Once a month, he also hosts “The Book Report” on CBS TV’s Sunday Morning. A native of Missouri and a graduate of Washington University, prior to coming to the Post, for seven years he was editor of the book section of The Christian Science Monitor; and from 2013 to 2020, he hosted “Life of a Poet,” an interview series co-sponsored by the Library of Congress. In 2008, he received the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation for book reviews and 1st place for A&E Coverage from the American Society for Features Journalism; in 2014 he served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; and in 2018 he won the Louis Shores Award for excellence in reviewing from the American Library Association.
E. Ethelbert Miller
E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist and author of two memoirs and several poetry collections. He hosts the WPFW morning radio show On the Margin with E. Ethelbert Miller and hosts and produces The Scholars on UDC-TV, which received a 2020 Telly Award. He is Associate Editor and a columnist for The American Book Review. He was given a 2020 congressional award from Congressman Jamie Raskin in recognition of his literary activism, awarded the 2022 Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award by the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and named a 2023 Grammy Nominee Finalist for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album. His How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask was published by City Point Press in 2022.
