Writing For My Life - A Poetry Workshop with Seniors 10:00 am - 11:00 am Lord Baltimore Hotel Hanover Suite A - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ This talk will explore former Maryland Poet Laureate GRACE CAVALIERI’s personal beliefs in writing as a life force, in the value of poetry, and energy as…
The Weekly Reader Live! 10:00 am - 11:30 am Lord Baltimore Hotel Baltimore Theatre - Mezzanine Level PARKING Download a map here. ______________ A live version of WYPR’s Weekly Reader with national book critic and author Marion Winik, who interviews four authors with notable releases in this 90-minute session. She spotlights two novels, a short…
MASTERCLASS WITH DAN FESPERMAN Less is More: Building suspense from the get-go by withholding and writing ‘small.’ ($10) 10:00 am - 11:30 am Lord Baltimore Hotel Royal Board Room - 19th Floor PARKING Download a map here. REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://citylitproject.salsalabs.org/CLF25MasterclasswithDanFesperman ______________ With the attention spans of readers and prospective publishers growing ever shorter, the pressure…
One-on-One 30-Minute Editorial Critique Sessions 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Speakeasy, 1st Floor *New this year: First Come, First Served PARKING Download a map here. ______________ Returning this year we have our One-on-One, 30-minute editorial critique sessions with esteemed editors who are donating their time in service for those who want to…
God, I’m Here: Bernice L. McFadden, Firstborn Girls, in Conversation with Tracy Chiles McGhee - In partnership with Zora’s Den 11:30 am - 12:30 pm 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm – The Writers Room Lord Baltimore Hotel Baltimore Theatre - Mezzanine Level PARKING Download a map here. ZORA’S DEN empowers the lives of Black women…
The Literary Life of AI: Output Through the Years 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Hanover Suite A - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ Co-editors and poets LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM and NICK MONTFORT discuss the long-awaited anthology Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Writing, 1953-2023, spanning seven decades before artificial intelligence was even…
The ‘State’ of Baltimore: Arts as a Cultural Force 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Hanover Suite B - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ This year’s ‘State’ of Baltimore invites cultural warriors to share, explore, and discuss navigating the arts scene and the innovative role artists, arts organizations, and creatives play…
When They See Us: Reckoning With History 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Baltimore Theatre - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ Whether it’s family history, historical references to national monuments, or authenic stories of African American survival in Baltimore's forgotten neighborhoods, three esteemed authors seek to unravel myths, reveal injustices, and…
We Are More Than One Story 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Hanover Suite A - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ Two debut novelists Zeeva Bukai, Anatomy of Exile, Karen Outen, Dixon Descending, and nonfiction author, Kevin Shird, A Life For A Life: Poor Choices and Unresolved Trauma is Killing American,…
Voices From the Palestinian Diaspora 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Baltimore Theatre - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ Like any identity, the Palestinian one is not monolithic. The richness and diversity of Palestinian culture both in Palestine and across the diaspora is celebrated and platformed in this panel.Palestinian, poets, memoirists,…
The Publishing SEEN 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Hanover Suite B - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ For this 90-minute craft intensive, publishers and editors join a successful self-published author to discuss the publishing scene, best practices, and ways writers should prepare their work for a competitive market. Each ‘house’…
What My Father and I Don’t Talk About: Michele Filgate 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Baltimore Theatre - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ In 2019, when Michele Filgate introduced the world to her book What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, it arrived “the rarest of successes: a modern-day…
Tipping Point: Climate. Crisis. Critical. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Hanover Suite A - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ The evidence of climate crisis dictates that we find additional ways to activate engagement, and what better way than through stories? Two novelists, one debuting “a parallel narrative of the 1950s…
Making a Life as an Artist: Writers as Entrepreneurs 90-minute craft intensive 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Hanover Suite B - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ Designed to encourage … force writers to engage in meaningful ways in what living a life as an artist looks like, four industry professionals…
Writing Between Worlds: Misplacement, Memory, and Meaning 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Lord Baltimore Hotel Hanover Suite A - Mezzanine PARKING Download a map here. ______________ How do you write about a state of limbo—that liminal space between past and present, here and there? At a time when immigration is, again, under threat in America,…
a good time for the truth: DewMore Baltimore Youth Poetry Summit Youth Poetry Summit - 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Youth Poetry Slam Competition - 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Baltimore Unity Hall 1505 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, MD 21217 ______________ This second day of the 22nd CityLit Festival takes advantage of National Poetry Month while…
We Who Do Words: CityLit Festival Poetry Finale 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Red Emma's Bookstore 3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21218 ______________ In a final nod to poet Nikki Giovanni, the 22nd CityLit Festival ends National Poetry Month with a poetry finale. We Who Do Words, with musical guest artist Wifty Bangura and featuring…