21st CITYLIT FESTIVAL: DISMANTLING THE CULTURE OF SILENCE

The daylong portion of the 21st CityLit Festival returns with an outdoor Literary Marketplace. Vendors from indie publishers, small presses, journals, self-published authors, and organizations will offer literary services. Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall will feature sessions with Editorial Critiques spanning genres, Trans Poetics, Palestinian American writers on remembrance, Baltimore's Chicory Magazine, Writing While Aging, and AI in the literary world. Topped off with The 'State' of Baltimore is a media panel discussion moderated by Baltimore's own Alanah Nicole Davis. CityLit joins the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance in presenting the 2024 Baker Artist literary finalists and Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, the prestigious 2023 Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize awardee. Key speakers, Grammy-winning Kwame Alexander, discusses This IS the Honey and Why Fathers Cry at Night with Enoch Pratt retiree Deborah Taylor, and bestselling author Mateo Askaripour (Black Buck) in conversation with D. Watkins on reinventing oneself when success lands at your doorstep. CityLit's 21st festival finale Who We Become closes with a performance by musical artist Baltimore newcomer Be Steadwell.