
Plan to spend the day at the 11th annual CityLit Festival with writers, poets, and exhibitors. Sponsored by the Pratt Library and CityLit Project. Complete schedule to come.
CityLit Festival
Celebrating the Literary Arts in Baltimore
Saturday, April 12, 2014
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Central LibraryFeatured authors:
James McBride, 2013 National Book Award winner for
The Good Lord BirdMusician and novelist
Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding),
WonderkidAlan Cheuse,
An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring and Other StoriesJeff Parker,
The Taste of PennyJason Ockert,
Neighbors of NothingNathan Deuel—
Los Angeles Review of Books contributing editor and former editor at
Rolling Stone and
The Village Voice—
Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle EastPoets
Natasha Sajé (
Vivarium),
Erica Dawson (
The Small Blades Hurt), and
Gerry LaFemina (debuting the Lo-Fi Poetry Series)
Danuta Kosk-Kosicka moderates a panel discussion on poetry in translation.
UMBC writer in residence and Guggenheim fellow
Lia Purpura,
Rough Likeness, hosts a reading of faculty and student-winners of UMBC’s literary contest.
Writer and workshop leader
Janice Gary discusses her book
Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance and leads a mini-workshop on writing about yourself.
A panel on
new narrative platforms as technology continues storytelling and story-reading.
A reading by winners of Pratt Library’s second poetry contest presented in partnership with
Poet Lore, celebrating 125 years as the country’s oldest continuously published poetry magazine!
New nonfiction from the
New Mercury Series with hosts
Deborah Rudacille and
John Barry.Letters About Literature Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the Maryland Center for the Book/Maryland Humanities Council
Literary Marketplace: free exhibit space for authors, poets, self-published writers, literary magazines, small presses, and literary arts organizations. To register, email
gregg@citylitproject.org