Recent Announcements
Happy New Year!
06/28/2009
July marks a turn of the fiscal calendar for most nonprofits. And just like January 1, this time of year beckons memories of FY2009 and looks forward to diaper-swaddled baby FY10. Last year marked significant programmatic and organizational growth for CityLit. During the summer we...
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CityLit Announces First Annual Harriss Poetry Prize
06/18/2009
CityLit Project announces the First Annual Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize and Chapbook Competition. The Prize is named in honor of Clarinda Harriss, eminent Baltimore poet, publisher, and professor of English at Towson University. Harriss, educated at Johns Hopkins University and Goucher...
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Summit Held For Growing Literary Arts Scene
06/15/2009
Over the last five years, Baltimore’s literary arts community has significantly grown due to the formation of organizations, networking among writers, influx of new writers, creation of several reading series, increased media attention through publicity and blogs, and a new energy in...
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CityLit Teens Culminates with Book Publication
05/03/2009
CityLit Teens culminated at CityLit Festival in April, 2009, with the unveiling of Open Mic / Open Minds , a book collecting the work that teen writers produced over the course of the program. For several weeks at both the Southeast Anchor Library and Pennsylvania Avenue branch of Pratt...
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Maryland Young Writers' Contest Winners Announced
05/01/2009
Baltimore's Child and CityLit Project are proud to announce the winners of the first annual Maryland Young Writers' Contest. Nearly 400 entries were submitted from around the state in both prose and poetry categories across high school, middle school, and elementary school age...
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