This Is How We Do It: Black Writers give up the goods on writing, publishing, and all literary things

90-MINUTE CRAFT INTENSIVE

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Lobby Stage

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Contributors of Hurston-Wright Foundation’s How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown and Darlene Taylor, share their essays and best practices. A handbook and a reference tool, How We Do It is a thoughtful representation of Black literary artists who establish their own creative practice while celebrating and widening the scope of the Black writer’s role in art, history, and culture. Used as a tool and guide, writers are offered a chance to explore and examine the complexities of range and style with essays, including “When a Character Returns”, “How to Write a Memoir or Take Me To The River”, “Write What You Know or Nah?”. All are welcome to this 90-minute craft intensive to hear from premiere authors. Co-founder and President Emerita of the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation, MARITA GOLDEN is an award-winning author of over twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent nonfiction is The New Black Woman Loves Herself, Has Boundaries, Heals Every Day. RION AMLICAR SCOTT is the author of the story collections The World Doesn’t Require You and Insurrections. The Toast’s, Melissa Moorer says, “…Scott’s people do not stay in their place, they will burn themselves into you and you’ll find yourself thinking about them all the time. ” TRICIA ELAM WALKER, is a lawyer, educator, and an award-winning author of the acclaimed novel Breathing Room and two children’s books and a professor of Creative Writing at Howard University. Multidisciplinary DC-based artist DARLENE R. TAYLOR’s creative works explore race, place, and memory in fiction and visual narratives that reclaim Black life in mixed media silhouettes. In the words of Taylor, “These pages offer cultured visions of the way Black writers gather, remember, and talk it out.”

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CityLit Project and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in partnership with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company present CityLit Festival: Dismantling the Culture of Silence. This celebration of the arts showcases a bevy of leading poets and writers on April 20, 2024. We’re talking fiction, nonfiction, poetry galore, and ways to up the ante on your craft.

Download the CityLit Festival: Dismantling the Culture of Silence flyer.