by Chelsea Lemon Fetzer If you get the chance to take a class with George Saunders, don’t miss it. Sure, he is one of the most masterful writers we get…
Terrance Hayes: A Poet of These Times: How We Breathe
by Dana Harris-Trovato Award-winning poet and MacArthur Fellow Terrance Hayes graced the CityLit Festival: Reimagined Zoom stage as a featured event, in conjunction with the Enoch Pratt Free Library, on…
Jenny Offill & Emily St. John Mandel Mark the Launch of CityLit Festival: Reimagined
Jenny Offill & Emily St. John Mandel Launch the month-long Festival with special events each week and daylong programming on March 20, 2021
CityLit Starts New Year with Inaugural Scribente Maternum
Hello CityLit Peeps, CityLit starts the new year with the inaugural Scribente Maternum: Write Like a Mother, a virtual writer’s retreat. Yea, we’re fancy but at its roots, those words…
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Awards CityLit’s Carla Du Pree The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Individual Award
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) has named CityLit’s Executive Director Carla Du Pree a recipient of its inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Individual Award. This award…
Maryland State Department of Education Spotlights CityLit’s Carla Du Pree
In honor of the year of the woman, Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) Fine Arts celebrated the work of CityLit Project’s Executive Director, Carla Du Pree, for their April…
COVID-19: Greater Baltimore Resources for Writers and Artists
Much of the Greater Baltimore writer and artistic community is struggling right now, facing a troubling economic impact due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our mission is to nurture the culture…
Celebrating Baltimore Novelist Susan Muaddi Darraj
We celebrate and applaud one of Baltimore’s own, novelist Susan Muaddi Darraj, who is redefining children’s literature with this introduction of an Arab American girl with a rockin’ spirit. MEET…
Spotlight on Poet Nikky Finney
Nikky Finney was to be our 2020 CityLit Festival keynote, and we were SO READY FOR HER! In light of COVID-19, we decided to feature this award-winning poet at a…
A Message from CityLit’s Executive Director
Yesterday our Board and Leadership Council concluded it was time to officially announce the postponement of our annual CityLit Festival, scheduled for March 21, 2020, until further notice, due to the coronavirus pandemic.