NutMag 8: Harmony (2024)

Muara Prize Winners 2024

Chloe Hor is a contemporary Malaysian writer with a Bachelor of Arts in English with Creative Writing. Her poems and prose have been published in several collections including Year of the Rat and Other Poems, A Chance Encounter at Sungai Chiling and Other Stories, and The Best Asian Short Stories 2023. Her work centres on melancholic themes of youth, grief, and love. Chloe currently works a day job in Kuala Lumpur while pursuing her dream of publishing a novel.
Dr. Florence Kuek ialah pensyarah kanan di Jabatan Pengajian Cina, Fakulti Sastera dan Sains Sosial, Universiti Malaya yang produktif dalam bidang akademik, penterjemahan dan penulisan kreatif. Antara hasil penerbitannya ialah Tasik Itu Bagai Cermin: Antologi Cerpen Sastera Mahua (2022), dan Zhengshi Daohe Piaoxiang Shi: Malai Duanpian Xiaoshuo Xuanji (Dang Sari Padi Menguning: Antologi Cerpen Melayu, dijangka terbit pada 2025).

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Alif Zamri merupakan peminat dan penulis haiku. Kumpulan haiku pertamanya berjudul Langit Biru diterbit pada 2022. Melalui haiku, penulis gemar meneroka dan menulis tentang alam, manusia serta budaya
​Alif's work also appears in NutMag Volume 7: Inheritance.
Carolyn Khor is a pluviophile who loves contemplating life's philosophical dimensions and aligning herself with the universe. In addition to writing and journalism, she has been in the teaching profession for three decades. Her varied career includes roles as a ministerial press secretary and a UN Volunteer. She contributes to several online and print publications and can be reached at [email protected].
Celine Wu is a reader first and foremost and a writer only when forced to admit to having published short stories. With editing as a job and the mismanagement of her life as a hobby, you'd think she spends her free time doing things other than reading and writing—but she doesn't.
Celine's work also appears in NutMag Volume 2: Coffee or Tea?, NutMag Volume 3: Island Living, NutMag Volume 4: Transitions, Home Groan, NutMag Volume 5: Lost, NutMag Volume 6: Hope, and NutMag Volume 7: Inheritance.
Eileyn Chua is a lawyer, burn survivor, writer and motivational speaker. Having miraculously survived a gas explosion in 2016, her perception of life has changed. She plans to live this life to her fullest potential. Currently, she is writing her memoir about her life as a burn survivor in Malaysia.
Jenny Hor may be working 9 to 6 as a copywriter in Malaysia, but she still sticks to her long-time dream as a fiction writer. Her works appear in Asian Anthology: New Writing Vol 1 and Penang-based literary zine NutMag Vol. 6 and 7. Aside from writing, she likes travelling and exploring interesting happenings on the island.​
Jenny's work also appears in NutMag Volume 6: Hope and NutMag Volume 7: Inheritance.
Jinming Khor should be graduating from his university with a software engineering degree, if his pending exam results permit him to. He was born in Penang, Malaysia, which can be seen in his tendency to switch to Chinese mid-sentence after forgetting English words. His writing was born from cringey fanfiction.net shippings which explains his obsession with romance fics.
Jinming's work also appears in NutMag 7:  Inheritance.
​JY Tan is a writer whose short stories have appeared in multiple NutMag volumes and hopes to get a novel published someday. She occasionally writes poetry when the poetry muse breaks into her house, and she was co-editor for the Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020 reprint anthology (but talks about its cool tiger cover more than the 19 cooler stories within). When she isn’t selling her soul to pay for her cat son’s food (a.k.a. working a day job), she can be found on Twitter at @JYTan6 or her website at jytan.org.
JY's work also appears in NutMag Volume 4: Transitions, Home Groan, NutMag Volume 5: Lost, NutMag Volume 6: Hope, and NutMag 7:  Inheritance.
Lauren Tan is a multi-passionate and untethered force of light. A mother of 2 boys (and an ardent fan of John Mayer’s artistry), she seamlessly wears different hats between lawyering in her day job, helping children with learning challenges learn how to read in her side passion project, and dabbling in the performing arts whenever time permits. She believes in the inherent goodness of people and is exploring the written word as another channel of creative self-expression.
Munira Noor Mazlan is currently reevaluating her relationship to literature and writing and doing it amongst new faces in her native Penang. She also is very enthusiastic about exploring about the unique narrative structure that can only be showcased in RPG games. She is currently in deep research and when she needs a break she goes to the beach. 
Wilson Khor W.H. is known for many things—zine poet and publisher; teacher, otaku, and an obvious oddball.
His hobbies include eating, being annoying, and fooling around in writers’ meetings. He has a bad habit of cracking the wrong jokes at the wrong time, as well as a notoriety for abusing long sentences, em dashes, and semi colons.
Wilson's work also appears in NutMag Volume 1, NutMag Volume 2: Coffee or Tea?, NutMag 3: Island Living, Home Groan, and NutMag Volume 6: Hope.​

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Chew Yuin-Y is an artist and an educator. She was one of five winners of The Tokyoiter Exhibition Open Call, organized by the Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur in 2023, and her work was part of The Tokyoiter Exhibition in 2024. Her recent notable projects include the brand identities and collaterals for local Malaysian swing jazz band The Frankie Sixes and the KLSwing Fest lindy hop international community event in 2023. She was also a contributing illustrator to the 2020 Penang-based anthology Home Groan and has exhibited at Lukis Tulis Malaysia 2019, a community art festival at Jaya One.