The “Real” Business of Writing Creative Nonfiction: You Can’t Make It Up

LIVE @ THE CENTRAL PRATT LIBRARY (CREATIVE ARTS CENTER)

In this 90-minute craft intensive, four working essayists, journalists feed you the facts of writing creative nonfiction. What it takes to represent, research, explore and write the “real”. How to merge the boundaries of fiction, poetry with accuracy and research, and anchor it in truth and narrative storytelling. Artist-archivist, writer, curator, Angela Carroll released Exploring Presence: African American Artists in the Upper South, a catalog and short docuseries that surveys underrecognized artists in the DMV region. Rebekah Kirkman is the managing editor of BmoreArt and frequently explores the tensions and dimensions of power and community through the arts. Ron Cassie is a senior editor at Baltimore magazine, winning national magazine awards for his work around climate change, the opioid epidemic, and the death of Freddie Gray. Award-winning writer and moderator Kristina R. Gaddy’s debut nonfiction book Flowers in the Gutter, tells the true story of the teenage Edelweiss Pirates who fought the Nazis. Her forthcoming Well of Souls: Music, Dance, Spirituality, and the Early Banjo is a literary exploration of the little known history of the banjo in the Americas.

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CityLit in partnership with Enoch Pratt Free Library, Maryland Centers for Creative Classrooms, Arts Education in Maryland Schools, Maryland Humanities, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts – American Rescue Plan, Motor House, Busboys and Poets – Baltimore, Bmore Art and The Ivy Bookshop presents CityLit Festival: Reimagined II. This live and virtual celebration of the arts showcases a bevy of leading poets and writers throughout March, with a day full of sessions on March 12th. We’re talking fiction, nonfiction, poetry galore, and ways to up the ante on your craft.

Download the CityLit Festival: Reimagined II flyer.