Events

One-on-One 30-Minute Editorial Critique Sessions with Rosalia Scalia, Karen Houppert, Bret McCabe, Rebekah Kirkman, Laura Ballou, & Chelsea Fetzer ($10) https://clf2021-edit-critique.eventbrite.com (Join us for a Zoom meeting, a phone call session, an email session or an in-person mask session.) Guidelines: • Five pages of poetry OR Five pages of prose: • Double-spaced • 12 pt.…

FEATURED EVENT The Wolf You Feed: Love, Empathy & Truth* Join novelists Brandon Hobson, National Book Award Finalist (Where the Dead Sit Talking), and Kelli Jo Ford, Crooked Hallelujah in a conversation about their accomplished works. Learn the strife of families stricken with grief and disconnection, bonds that form between generations, mother and daughter, and the…

ReThinking How We Do Story: Real Talk About Craft and the Changing/Unchanging Landscape of Writing & Publishing A 90-minute craft intensive about the changing dynamics of craft as we’ve been taught - from structure to plot to point of view. Learn from authors who dare you to revisit the elements of fiction; to unlearn and…

FEATURED EVENT The Mattering of Words with Nikky Finney: A Reading & Talk with moderator Saida Agostini Zoom Webinar Nikky Finney reflects on the past year, the necessity of poetry, the importance of historical context, and a reckoning in understanding the world we live in. Poet Saida Agostini will moderate this session. A reading, commentary,…

Who’s Missing? & Who’s Here Now? Children’s and Young Adult Literature Four authors shed light on the many stories framed either around a historical context or referencing omission from the literary landscape. Join Randi Pink (Angel in Greenwood), Saadia Faruqi, Laura Shovan (A Place at the Table) in a discussion about writing as activism; the…

FEATURED EVENT The Writer’s Room: Poet to Poet with Nikky Finney Zoom Meeting https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-writers-room-poet-to-poet-with-nikky-finney-tickets-142257515057?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch A special Writer’s Room featuring Nikky Finney, designed to engage and address Black poets, how to be a poet of this time, how to champion history and correction in a time of upheaval and uncertainty. ______________ NIKKY FINNEY was born by…

The ‘State’ of Baltimore Panelists discuss critical issues in Baltimore with the intention of shedding light, along with a broader view of justice, equality, art, and dignity in today’s Baltimore. Expect a lively discussion with co-editor Joshua Davis (Baltimore Revisited, Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City), reporter Brandon Soderberg (I Got A…

A VISUAL PRESENTATION CURATED BY NIA JUNE, APOETNAMEDNATE & KIRBY GRIFFIN In this session, film, and poetry collide to explore the meaning of identity by holding a mirror to the maddening yet liberating process of self-discovery. Experience some of Baltimore’s most captivating filmmakers and poets as they share their stories about race, gender, childhood, love,…