FEATURED EVENT Navigating Solitude with Kristen Radtke and Natalie Eve Garrett with Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn as moderator VIRTUAL This session examines the many ways we manage isolation. Leaning into the third year of the pandemic has left many sheltering alone with minimum contact with loved ones or working remotely, away from daily interactions with others.…
FEATURED EVENT Writing, Revising, & Editing YOUR Story with Matt Bell, Melissa Febos, Dean Smith, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, and CityLit Project’s Aditya Desai as moderator The Writer’s Room with Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai will follow the main session from 8:30 – 9:00 pm. VIRTUAL Some of the nation’s literary finest discuss revision, editing, the bold undertaking…
FEATURED EVENT Becoming American with Eman Quotah, Nadia Hashimi, Mariam Thakkar, and Delegate Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk with curator Saima Adil Sitwat LIVE (Wheeler Auditorium, 3rd floor) & VIRTUAL @ THE CENTRAL PRATT LIBRARY CityLit Project joined author and curator Saima Adil Sitwat to present ‘Becoming American’, a series of short vignettes & videos of ten…
One-on-One 30-Minute Editorial Critique Sessions with Rosalia Scalia, Karen Houppert, Bret McCabe, Laura Ballou, Chelsea Fetzer, & Nora Belblidia ($10) VIRTUAL (ZOOM MEETING) ______________ Registration is required. Please click the link below to register for the Zoom Meeting: https://citylitproject.salsalabs.org/clf22editorial ______________ Guidelines: • Five pages of poetry OR Five pages of prose: • Double-spaced • 12…
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…
FEATURED EVENT Black Girls: Bone Black & Breathing LIVE & VIRTUAL @ THE CENTRAL PRATT LIBRARY Titled in the spirit of feminist bell hooks, this panel of Black women discuss the interior and public lives of Black girlhood, and their new works of poetry, film, story, and the many ways they see themselves and come…
FEATURED EVENT The 1619 Project with creator and Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in conversation with Martha S. Jones LIVE & VIRTUAL @ THE CENTRAL PRATT LIBRARY ______________ Registration is required. Please click the link below to register for the LIVE event: https://citylitproject.salsalabs.org/clf22keynote **On Saturday, March 12, this Keynote event is the only event you have…
"KEEPING IT IN THE HOUSE" VIRTUAL This Festival year we offer you one of America’s brightest literary stars for our highly regarded CityLit Master Class. Kiese Laymon is a Black, southern writer from Mississippi, the author of the genre-bending novel, Long Division, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.…
FEATURED EVENT How We Get Free: The Birth of Promise with Christine Platt, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo & Kristoffer Carter The Writer’s Room with KC - Kristoffer Carter will begin before the main session from 7:00 - 7:30 pm EST LIVE AT THE MOTOR HOUSE THEATER 120 W. NORTH AVENUE, BALTIMORE, MD 21201 A Festival ‘Finale’…
Killing Rage: A Festival of Poets with Musical Guest Artist Like Water & Featuring Jasmine Mans 7:00 - 7:30 pm: Like Water 7:30 - 9:00 pm: A Rage of Poets LIVE AT BUSBOYS AND POETS - BALTIMORE (ELIJAH CUMMINGS ROOM) 3224 ST. PAUL STREET, BALTIMORE, MD 21218 In a nod to feminist bell hooks and…