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BALTIMORE’S 15TH ANNUAL
A LITERARY CELEBRATIONFOR READERS AND WRITERSSaturday, April 14, 20189:15 AM - 5:30 PMWilliam H. Thumel Sr. Business CenterUniversity of Baltimore11 W. Mount Royal AvenueBaltimore, Maryland 21201
PRESENTED BY:
CITYLITPROJECT
Founded in 2004, CityLit Project is a 501 (c)(3) non-profi t organization that nurtures the culture of literature in Baltimore, around the region, and across Maryland. CityLit creates enthusiasm for literary arts, connects a community of avid readers and writers, and opens opportunities for diverse audiences to embrace the literary arts.
www.citylitproject.org
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CITYLITPROJECT
Philip Gourevitch12:00pm - 1:30pm
Elizabeth Acevedo
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Abdul Ali
Lauren K. Alleyne
Joanne Gabbin4:00pm - 5:15pm
Yrsa Daley-Ward2:00pm - 3:30pm
Tony Medina
KImi Hanauer
Anthony Moll Annalisa Dias
Supported (in part) by a grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.
CityLit Project would also like to thank our Festival volunteers, UB’s Marion Winik, Chris Spence, Mike Zemarel, Monica Queen, and Mark Wadley; with a very special thank you to Insight180 Brand Consulting & Design’s Wendy Baird and Bethany Howell, and the ultra-fabulous CityLit Gladiators Aditya Desai and Elizabeth (Liz) Dunlap,and newcomers Kaila Philo, Sylvia Fox, and Joshua White.
Festival Photographers: Zorn Taylor (zornimages.com); Gethro Geneus (quantizedpixels.com)
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KEYNOTE AUTHORMaster Class with poet YRSA DALEY-WARD The Way Things Feel Author of the forthcoming work The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir, and poetry collection bone engages poets for a reading, instruction and conversation about how to bring real-life experiences to the page without freezing. Ticket access only. 2:00PM - 3:30PM - BC219
We Are Here: Finding Your Voice with debut novelist ELIZABETH ACEVEDOPoet X, a coming-of-age story in verse introduces Afro-Dominican Xiomara Batista, a teen girl raised under strict parents in a world that may not want to hear her, comes into her own with a voice that refuses to be silent and words that vow to be heard. 3:00PM - 4:00PM - AUDITORIUM
Furious Flower Poetry Center with JOANNE GABBIN, ABDUL ALI, LAUREN K. ALLEYNE & TONY MEDINA Blooming in the WhirlwindThe nation’s first academic center for Black poetry has reached thousands of poets, educators, students, and poetry lovers around the world. Renowned poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, and so many more have been featured. The Center ensures the visibility, inclusion and critical consideration of Black poets in American letters. A finale poetry celebration. 4:00PM - 5:15PM - AUDITORIUM
Literary Marketplace40 exhibitors selling all things literary throughout the day.ATRIUM
9:30AM - 10:30AM - BC143Funding & Advocacy for Literary Artists with Maryland State Arts Council, MSAC, Steven Skerritt-Davis, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, GBCA, Sonja Cendak, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Mohamed Sheriff, Creative Capital, Marianna Schaffer, and Maryland Citizens for the Arts, MCA, Nicholas Cohen, highlight funding opportunities and arts advocacy in Maryland. Hosted by CityLit board member Steven Levya.
10:00AM - 12:00PM One-on-One 30 Minute Editorial Critique Sessions with editors: Karen Houppert (141), Bret McCabe (139), celeste doaks (133), Betsy Boyd (131), Laura Ballou (129). Fiction. Memoir. Nonfiction. Poetry. Screenplay. 20 slots - $10 each.
10:00AM - 11:30AM - AUDITORIUMListen To Your Mother: 15 Presenters Deliver Tales About Motherhood LTYM productions take the audience on a well-crafted journey of diverse true stories about motherhood. From hilarious and heartwarming, to emotionally intense and profound, LTYM entertains, energizes, encourages community and leaves everyone feeling less alone and more understood. Curated by Taya Johnson.
11:00AM - 12:00PM - BC135We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing In America For some, “passing” means opportunity, access, or safety. Others don’t willingly pass but are “passed” in situations as someone else. Stories include racial, socioeconomic gender, and religious passing. Co-editor Lisa Page joins Teresa Wiltz and Sergio Troncoso who tell their own stories of mistaken identity.
11:00AM - 12:00PM - BC205Sipping From a Jar: A Sampling From a Local Press: Mason Jar Press‘ Briana Wingate joins memoirists Tyrese Coleman and Michelle Junot, novelist Dave K., and poet Stephen Zerance as they share their work.
11:00AM - 12:00PM - BC219Spotlight on POETRY: Poets read and discuss their latest work, including National Book Award Finalist Leslie Harrison, Gerry LaFemina, Mecca Morphosis, and Jennifer Wallace. CityLit board member and poet Chelsea Fetzer hosts.
12:00PM - 1:30PM KEYNOTE CONVERSATION WITH PHILIP GOUREVITCH – A Reckoning, Rebuilding & Reconciliation (see left)
1:30PM - 2:30PM - BC135Find A Way: The Power, Strength, and Resilience of Standing Up Adopted from the op-ed piece by Diana Nyad, “My Life After Sexual Assault” this session was created in the wake of the #MeToo Movement coined by Tarana Burke. “a catchphrase to be used from survivor to survivor to let folks know … radical healing was happening and possible.” Awareness of relationships of power, and exploring ways in which writers have been confronted with issues of sexism, sexual abuse, race, body image, and disability is more important than ever. Authors Laura Bogart, Allison McCarthy, Kenneth Rogers, Hannah J. Sawyerr, and Susi Wyss join curator and novelist Jen Michalski.
1:30PM - 2:30PM - BC143Always Loaded, Never Safe: Guns on the Page & In the Streets Deirdra McAfee and BettyJoyce Nash, editors of Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, join contributors Patricia Schultheis and Daniel Cox. “… armed protesters in Charlottesville offer further evidence of the damage that insult, injustice, and silence do. Literature gives us words. Stories give us ways.” An open exchange with community members is encouraged.
1:30PM - 2:30PM - BC205Playwriting 101: Area playwrights Annalisa Dias, Miranda Rose Hall join Mai Sennaar to speak truth to theater in a conversation about playwriting, the craft, the process, the industry, and writing as women and as transnational representation at the intersection of change.
1:30PM - 2:30PM - BC223Short Fiction: Short story writers read and speak about the challenges and delights of the short form, including novellas with Ho Lin, Stephanie Allen and host author Timmy Reed.
2:00PM - 3:30PM - BC219 Master Class with poet YRSA DALEY-WARD (see left)
2:30PM - 3:30PM - BC205Round Table: Theater Producers Discuss How to Get Your Play Noticed Industry update, mechanics and straight talk with Producing Playwright and Acting Creative Producer with The Welders, a DC playwright’s collective Annalisa Dias, Olney Theater’s Deborah Ellinghaus, producer Miranda Rose Hall, and Mai Sennaar, co-founder of MaiWrites Productions, a Baltimore-based entertainment company.
2:30PM - 4:00PM - BC143Spotlight on FICTION & MEMOIR: Regional authors Leslie Pietryzk, Katia Ulysse, Melissa Scholes Young, Jane Delury and Joyce Abell talk new and debut releases with novelists and All Things Considered commentator Marion Winik.
3:00PM - 4:00PM - AUDITORIUM Featured Session with ELIZABETH ACEVEDO (see left)
3:00PM - 4:00PM - BC135Writing From the Margins: Uncovering our Hidden Narratives Through Creative Nonfiction – How do we access and tell stories outside the mainstream? Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson hosts Baltimore authors celeste doaks, Saida Agostini, and Anthony Moll who challenge notions of race, class, gender, ethnicity, family, and identity through storytelling. They will read poetry, memoir, journalism, essay, and discuss the craft of research and writing creative nonfiction. Ideal for those who read creative nonfiction and those who hope to learn more about the writing process.
4:00PM - 5:15PM - AUDITORIUM Furious Flower Poetry Session (see left)
4:00PM - 5:00PM - BC143Screenwriting 101: Screenwriters Jocquelyn Downs, Laura Ballou, LaTasha Kennedy and Robert Pawloski discuss craft, process, as well as opportunities writing in a TimesUp industry. An ideal session to learn the craft, the basics, and to ask questions about the challenges and process of working from fiction to script.
4:00PM - 5:15PM - BC205Straight Talk with Publishing Professionals: CityLit Press publisher Gregg Wilhelm discusses the publishing industry and perspectives of national and regional presses with Ian Anderson, Editor-in-Chief at Mason Jar Press, Kimi Hanauer at Press Press Baltimore, Truth Thomas with Cherry Castle Publishing, publicist and owner of independent bookstore Greedy Reads’ Julia Fleischaker, and Emily Williamson from Williamson Literary, a boutique agency based in Baltimore in a frank industry talk.
15th Annual CityLit Festival Saturday, April 14, 2018
KEYNOTE AUTHOR
A CONVERSATION WITH PHILIP GOUREVITCH – A Reckoning, Rebuilding & ReconciliationOperation Respect and CityLit Project’s founding board member Chic Dambach in Conversation with The New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories of Rwanda. Gourevitch’s forthcoming book You Hide That You Hate Me, I Hide That I Know is due out in 2019. A reading, conversation and book signing.
12:00PM - 1:30PM - AUDITORIUM
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