Baltimore Hosts AWP 2026

Baltimore is the host city for the 2026 AWP Writing Conference & Bookfair.

AWP is an annual gathering of writers, poets, editors, and publishers. From March 4-7, 2026, AWP will bring 10,000+ people to The City That Reads (and writes!)

We’re inviting everyone in Baltimore to join in!  Every evening from Wednesday through Saturday in the first week of March, hundreds of off-site events will extend the literary celebration all over the city. Eclectic and mostly free, these grassroots events will showcase exciting contemporary literature.

To help spread the word, CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth created a new, youth-led literary map of Baltimore, and the Baker Artist Portfolios are featuring local writers and artists who are involved.

We’re showcasing Baltimore’s off-site AWP events — and our abundant literary scene.

The following events are organized by Baltimore organizations and/or feature Baltimore-based poets and writers. For more off-site events, the full conference schedule, and information on how to attend the conference itself, see the official AWP website.

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Baltimore-Led AWP Off-Site Events

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

READING / GATHERING

Charm City Spec
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Top of the World Observatory, World Trade Center  |  401 E Pratt St
Free 

Enjoy 27th story views of the city as you listen to live readings by upcoming authors in speculative fiction! Charm City Spec offers a thoughtfully curated program of excellent new writers, both local and from afar. Free to all, and everyone is welcome!

FEATURING: A. C. Wise, Chris Campell, Gina Tron, Elwin Cotman, Somto Ihezue, Andrew Hiller, James Slate Simmons III, and Andrew Katz

READING / GATHERING

Yellow Arrow’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration 
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Barcocina  |  1629 Thames Street
Free 

Join Yellow Arrow Publishing as we celebrate ten years of empowering women-identifying writers! We will feature ten readers representing the diversity of storytelling we have shared through Yellow Arrow Journal, Yellow Arrow Vignette, and the Yellow Arrow chapbook series. We believe every writer has a story to tell, and every story is worth telling. Let’s honor these incredible stories in community. 

READING

ALCHEMICAL: Spells for Survivors 
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Bird in Hand Coffee & Books  |  11 E 33rd St
Free 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alchemical-spells-for-survivors-tickets-1981973555257

A reading of writers that identify as survivors to benefit House of Ruth and RAINN. We will celebrate art’s role in expanding entangled consciousness and shattering alienating silence.

FEATURING: Jan Beatty, Liz Hazen, Jenny Molberg, Tonee Mae Moll, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Somayeh Shams, Scott Stubbs, and Jen Sperry Steinorth. 

READING / GATHERING

Johns Hopkins Presents 
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Checkerspot Brewery  |  1421 Ridgely St.
Free 

Join us at Checkerspot Brewing for a celebratory evening of readings from current students of the MA in Writing (fiction and nonfiction) and the MA in Science Writing programs. Meet some of our students, alumni, and professors. Food and drink available for purchase.

READING

The Moon Jelly Reading  
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Baltimore’s National Aquarium, Pier 4  |  501 E. Pratt St
Free 

Come the Blue Wonders exhibit at the aquarium—available for an exclusive tour at 6:30pm on Pier 3.  

Doors open for the reading at 7:15 on Pier 4. There will be a cash bar as well as copies of Cherry Tree, the literary magazine of the Rose O’Neill Literary House at Washington College, for sale.   

ORGANIZED BY: Rose O’Neill Literary House at Washington College, Bucknell’s Stadler Center for the Literary Arts, and Smith College’s Boutelle-Day Poetry Center (together we are SLACC: Small Literary Arts Centers Coalition)

FEATURING: Victoria Chang, Leila Chatti, Denise Duhamel, Diamond Forde, Francisco Márquez, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Paisley Rekdal, Chet’la Sebree, and Patricia Smith. 

READING 

Hanging Loose Press/Heavy Feather Review
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Adee’s Coffee & Bar  |  1625 Fleet St
Free 

FEATURING: Yao Glover, Ailish Hopper, Mark Pawlak, Paula Cisewski, Michael Ruby, Indran Amirthanayagam, Amy Saul-Zerby, John Gallaher, Terence Winch, William Lessard

READING 

Off Site. On Purpose.
Doors at 6:30PM. Starts at 7:00 PM.
Westminster Hall  |  519 W Fayette St.
Free 

Featuring many of today’s most inspiring women writers and poets, including Baker Artist Ashley Hajimirsadeghi. Join us for a night of life-affirming poetry.

ORGANIZERS: SWWIM, MER, NELLE, Whale Road Review, Perugia Press, and Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry.

READING / PERFORMANCE / BURLESQUE / DRAG

Balancing Act: A Literary Circus 
7:00 PM – late
The Club Car  |  12 W North Ave
Free 

An evening of burlesque, drag, and literary performance hosted by Baltimore drag artist The Workshop Prince.

ORGANIZERS: fifth wheel press, Mason Jar Press, and JackLeg Press

FEATURING: Rahne Alexander, Yasmine Bolden, Genevieve DeGuzman, Eze Jackson, Dave K, Ani King, MANiC!, Amanda McCormick, Rita Mookerjee, Christopher Nelson, Karol Olesiak, Tramaine Suubi, Jade E. Welsh, and Stephen Zerance, and hosted by The Workshop Prince. 

READING / OPEN MIC

Write the Pain Away: An Evening of Rage and Lamentation
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Point in Fells (Upstairs)  |  1738 Thames St
Free 

One part poetry, one part primal scream. We’ll be sharing work centered in anger, sorrow, pain and grief. Bring your poems and short prose to share in our open mic.

FEATURING: Joseph Lezza, Vic Nogay, Annie Powell Stone and Claire Taylor

Thursday, March 5, 2026

READING / GATHERING / ART

If You’ve Got Em “Fine" (as in okay) Art
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Garage / 2706 Hargrove Street
Free 

1,000 Cigarettes + 3 Readings — a Pop-up Gallery Opening & Literary Reading. 

FEATURING: Nate Brown, Sylvia Jones, Jane Lewty, and Lydi Conklin.

PANEL CONVERSATION

Secrets of the Editors 
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
The Harbor Room/ Harbor Court  |  10 E Lee St
Free 

A panel conversation on the fine art of literary submission & rejection. 

FEATURING: Caroline Topperman (Mountain Ash Press), Court Harler (Flash the Court), MJ Huntsgood (author), and Amy L. Bernstein (moderator)

READING / ARTWORK

Celebrating New Books
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Gallery 1448  |  1448 E. Baltimore St
Free 

Local co-op, Artists’ Housing Inc, is hosting a reading by five authors with new books, alongside new paintings. 

FEATURING: Derrick Austin, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Rose McLarney, Melissa Range, and Jake Skeets. New paintings by Joseph Germershausen

READING / CELEBRATION

Kind of a Big Dill: Writers from 6 Local Publishers
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Pickles Pub  |  520 Washington Blvd
Free 

Join local publishers at Baltimore’s famous Pickles Pub for a fun, fabulous celebration of more than 100 combined years of publishing some of the finest literary work! 

Fun & games, great grub, outstanding readers, an open mic, and Pickles Pub is right across the street from the Convention Center, so people can kick off their Thursday night fun there, and then walk right across the street to catch John Waters’s keynote! 

HOSTED BY: The Baltimore Review, Yellow Arrow Publishing, Mason Jar Press, Washington Writers’ Publishing House, Akinoga Press, and Modern Artist Press

FEATURING: Caroline Bock, Jona Colson, Sarah Daniels, Kathryn Fay, Barbara Diehl, Michael Shattuck, and Mychael Zulauf.

READING 

Down River: Poets Remembering Baltimore’s Slave Trade
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Enoch Pratt Free Library (Central Branch)  |  400 Cathedral St
Free 

This memorial event, featuring contemporary poetry and a short historical talk, will honor the memory of thousands of people sold from Baltimore in the interstate slave trade between 1808, when the transatlantic slave trade was outlawed, and 1864, when Maryland abolished slavery.

FEATURING: Poets Abdul Ali, abdu mongo ali, Hayes Davis, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Reginald Harris, Taylor Johnson, Lauren Russell, and Stewart Shaw, along with scholar Lawrence Jackson.

READING 

Wintergreen Women Writers: A Reading at AWP
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Maryland Center for History and Culture  | 610 Park Ave
Free 

Join us for the inaugural Wintergreen Women Writers Collective Reading at the 2026 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Baltimore, MD. Light refreshments will be served.

FEATURING: Lauren K. Alleyne, Remica Bingham-Risher, Mahogany L. Browne, Carla DuPree, Latorial Faison, DaMaris Hill, Amanda Johnston and Patricia Smith. 

READING / CONVERSATION / GATHERING

The Body Politic: A Trans & Nonbinary Reading & Discussion 
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
The Black Genius Art Show  |  106 N. Eutaw St. Suite 1
Free 

Join trans and nonbinary writers J Brooke (I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side, 2026), Kelsey L. Smoot (SOULMATE AS A VERB, 2026), Jendi Reiter (Introvert Pervert, 2026), and Jackie Domenus (No Offense: A Memoir in Essays, 2025), for readings and an open discussion on work engaging with gender and the physical manifestation of it. Fun, free cocktails (yes, buried the lede there), and great music by Baltimore’s very own Queen HD. 

Donations for Trans Youth Emergency Project (TYEP) are encouraged, but not required. TYEP helps families of trans youth navigate and access health care during this time of crisis.

HOSTED BY & FEATURING: J Brooke, Kelsey L. Smoot, Jendi Reiter, Jackie Domenus, and Queen HD

READING

FRUITCAKE 
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
The Belvedere (Palm Room)  |  1 E Chase St
Free 

FRUITCAKE is Baltimore’s quarterly queer reading series. This special AWP edition of the event brings 12 local and national readers to the stage for the biggest, queerest reading Baltimore has ever seen.

HOSTED BY: fifth wheel press

FEATURING: Sadee Bee, Veronica Bennett, Ashley Elizabeth, Romy Rhoads Ewing, Diamond Forde, Erika Gill, Axel B. Kolcow, Alison Lubar, Bleah Patterson, Caroline Ganci Patterson, Jessica Nirvana Ram, and nat raum.

READING

Mess and Friction: A Baltimore Reading Series 
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Fadensonnen  |  3 W 23rd St
Free 

Baltimore’s new monthly reading series sponsored by the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC). Meets the first Thursday of the month February-June and September-December at Fadensonnen Upstairs Tavern. 

HOSTED BY: Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) FEATURING: Leila Chatti, Allegra Hyde, Eugenia Leigh, Aaron John Curtis, Asa Drake, Sarah Perry, and Talin Tahajian. 

READING

Riot in Your Throat & Small Harbor Press Poetry Reading 
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Bird in Hand Coffee & Books  |  11 E 33rd St
Free 

Two small presses focused on fierce, feminist voices host a reading with 14 poets.

FEATURING: Allison Blevins, Courtney LeBlanc, Erin Murphy, Frances Klein, Jill Michelle, Melissa Fite Johnson, Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Benjamin Gossman, Dustin Brookshire, Elizabeth Hazen, Jessica L. Walsh, Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Monica Prince, Sarah Freligh

READING

Literary Celebration of the University of Baltimore 
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Ubalt Student Center, 5th floor  |  21 W. MT. Royal Ave
Free 

A multi-genre reading celebrating the 100th anniversary of the University of Baltimore.

FEATURING: Steven Leyva, Jane Delury, Betsy Boyd, and Marion Winik 

READING / GATHERING

Split Lip & Friends Reading to Benefit CHARM
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Baltimore Unity Hall  |  1505 Eutaw Pl
Donation Based (suggested $10) 

Join us at a Split Lip & Friends benefit reading featuring an incredible lineup of writers.

We’re raising funds for CHARM, a Baltimore-based organization dedicated to nurturing young writers and expanding access to publishing. Gather with us to celebrate the work—and community—that keeps literature alive, across generations. 💖

FEATURING: Nini Berndt, Priyanka Champaneri, Jason B. Crawford, Tope Folarin, Adam Gianforcaro, Kat Giordano, Hannah Grieco, Jon Chaiim McConnell, Crystal Odelle, Sebastian Paramo, Albert Phillips Jr., and Stella Wong

MEMOIR

Must Love Memoir at AWP Baltimore 
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Meander Art Bar  |  1801 E Lombard St
Free 

Must Love Memoir is a New York City-based reading series dedicated to telling personal stories ♥️ 

FEATURING: D/Annie Liontas, Ronit Plank, Arianna Rebolini, Chet’la Sebree, Hyeseung Song, and Jeannie Vanasco. HOSTS: Krystal Marie Orwig and Hope Elizabeth Kidd. 

READING / GATHERING / DANCE / MUSIC

Baltimore’s Big Trans & “Hon"-Binary Reading & Dance Party
7:00 PM – 12:00 AM
The Club Car  |  12 W North Ave
Free 

Mark your calendars for the “Baltimore Trans and ‘Hon’-Binary Reading” at Club Car on March 5 hosted by Rahne Alexander, featuring vendors: LittlePuss Press and Feminist Press

FEATURING: Rahne Alexander, Tonee Mae Moll, Vera Blossom, Tyler Vile, TT Madden, Nic Anstett, M. K. Thekkumkattil, Megan Milks, KM Szpara, Gwen Aube, Alice Stoehr. MUSIC BY: DJ Kotic Couture and DJ Abject Relations. VENDORS: LittlePuss Press and Feminist Press  

Friday, March 6, 2026

READING

Baltimore Bites: Morgan State Creative Writers at AWP
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
R House  |  301 W. 29th St
FREE

Registration link coming soon

Join us for an afternoon of fresh food and fresh voices. Celebrate Morgan State’s award-winning student writers AND award-winning faculty—all in one place. Free admission—just bring friends and an appetite for language. 

HOSTED BY: Morgan State University 

FEATURING: Professor and author A.J. Verdelle; professor and poet Dr. DaMaris B. Hill, plus two Morgan State AWP2026 HBCU Fellowship Awardees: Kassiah Drummond and Jolette Lima 

READING 

Siren Songs
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Ash Bar at Hotel Ulysses  |  2 East Read St
Free

Join us for fierce feminist voices from Baltimore and afar in one of the most beautiful and evocative bars in Baltimore.

HOSTED BY: Bad*ss Baltimore Bardesses 

FEATURING: Kim Addonizio, Tara Betts, Moira Egan, Annie Finch, Julie Kane, Jennifer Keith, Amy Lemmon, Eleanor Lewis, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Joy Priest, Richelle Lee Slota, Alexis Sears, Patricia Smith, Jennifer A Sutherland

READING 

A Night of Poetry at the Pratt Street Ale House
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Pratt Street Ale House  |  206 W Pratt St
Free 

After AWP, walk across the street for an evening of great eats, drinks, and poetry! Writers from Passager and Bracken magazines will combine for a poetic back-and-forth of their newly published work. 

HOSTED BY: Passager Books and Bracken Magazine.

READING / GATHERING / ART EXHIBITION OPENING

Dual Practice: Debut Novelists on Writing Fiction & Making Visual Art
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Creative Alliance (Patterson Building)  |  3134 Eastern Ave
FREE

In this “Time’s Breath" art exhibition public opening and artist talk, Boston-based author Leah De Forest, Senior Editor of Bloom, an online magazine devoted to authors whose first major work was published when they were age 40 or older, and forthcoming debut novelist (Any Kind of Known Tomorrow), discusses balancing art practices and the craft of writing fiction with Deborah Brown English (Time’s Breath), and artist and debut novelist, Margaret Hutton (If You Leave). Free and open to all.

FEATURING: Margaret Hutton, Deborah Brown English, and Leah De Forest

DANCE

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
4MLK  |  4 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd
This is a FREE event but registration is required.

When the world is heavy, we must find our joy and dance. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing is a gathering that is defiant in joy. This free event invites writers, readers, and literary folx to step out of conference mode and onto the dance floor. A high-energy evening designed to bring together creatives from across the country to celebrate literature, movement, and connection. Music curated by Baltimore’s DJ Chris Brooks, featuring a live band, light bites, a cash bar, a photo booth, and plenty of room to dance, meet new people, and reconnect with old friends. Whether you come to move or simply be in the room, this is a space for collective joy and footstompin’ music. The only thing left to bring is a good vibe and your energy. Come celebrate that one good thing that’s worth the sweat.

HOSTED BY: CityLit Project, Wexford Science & Technology, BioPark at the University of Maryland, The Loft, Kundiman, Pen Parentis, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, Wintergreen Women Writers Collective, George Mason University, Watershed Lit, Mid Atlantic Arts, Radius of Arab American Writers, Furious Flower Poetry Center, Hurston Wright Foundation, Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, and Obsidian

DANCE PARTNERS: Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Magazine, BmoreArt, The Clifton House, The Ivy Bookshop, Maryland Institute College of Art, Morgan State University – Department of English and Language Arts, Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, Scribente Maternum, Yellow Arrow Publishing. 

READING

Nice Girls Don’t Wear Cha-Cha Heels
Doors @6, reading @7, ends late 
House of Clam Strip (Lake Evesham) | DM @carodecarlo for address
Free

A poetry reading in conjunction with Be About It Press (PA) and Sweet Trash Press (FL) celebrating the offbeat, with karaoke to follow. 

The event will feature a free zine including contributions from every reader for all attendees to take home.

FEATURING: Carolyn DeCarlo, Brian Allen EllisJillian Luft, Alexandra Naughton, and more.

READING

Split/Lip Press Presents March XNess
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM  
Greedy Reads (Remington) | 320 W 29th St  
Free

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Split/Lip Press authors will read from their work and launch the forthcoming book “Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology" before it officially goes on sale!

FEATURING: Hayden Casey, Aubrey Hirsch, Sienna Liu, Jillian Danback McGhan, Shanda McManus, Katie Moulton, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sejal Shah, and Ander Monson

READING

Blair & River River Books Reading
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM  
Ubalt Student Center, 5th floor | 21 W. Mt Royal Ave.  
Free

Join Blair and River River authors for readings. Light refreshments will be provided.

EMCEED BY: Sandra Beasley. FEATURING: Jameela F. Dallis, celeste doaks, Beth Gilstrap, J. D. Ho, Cynthia Manick, Elizabeth Sylvia, Jennifer A. Sutherland, Zoe Ryder White, Preeti Vangani & Special Guest. 

SPONSORED BY: The Klein Family Center of Communications Design. 

PERFORMANCE

Button Poetry LIVE Charm City AWP 
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Baltimore Unity Hall  |  1505 Eutaw Pl
Tickets $15 / $20 at the door

An unforgettable night with Button Poetry and Charm City Slam. One of the most talked about spaces for poetry.

FEATURING: FreeQuency, Jay Ward, Lady Brion, Black Chakra, Mahogany Browne, Steven Willis, Porsha Olayiwola, Sean Patrick Mulroy, and more.

READING / MUSIC

Publishing Genius Anniversary Reading / Party
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Normals Books and Records  |  425 E 31st St
FREE

Founded in 2006 as a University of Baltimore class project—and twice named in City Paper’s “Best of Baltimore” (RIP)—Publishing Genius has grown to a catalog of 50+ books: poetry, fiction, and the beautifully strange, including our newest release, Claire Taylor’s April and Back Again

Join us at AWP for a retrospective celebration as PG authors read new work alongside favorite excerpts from the archives.

FEATURING: Stephanie Barber, Matt Cook, Gion Davis, Claire Donato, Johannes Goransson, Joe Hall, Josh Loomis, Megan McShea, Timothy Willis Sanders, Lucy K Shaw, Claire Taylor, Andrew Weatherhead, Rupert Wondolowski, John Dermot Woods, Joy Young, and Mike Young. 

Saturday, March 7, 2026

READING

Believable Fictions: A Poetry & Prose Reading Afternoon
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
American Visionary Art Museum  |  800 Key Highway
Free with museum admission 

Local and visiting writers and worldviews converge with the Fantastic Realities exhibition for a literary afternoon that blends the mundane and the surreal at the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM). Readers will flip the script on the famous notion passed down by the likes of Lord Byron and Mark Twain, that ‘truth is stranger than fiction’…presenting contemporary verse and fictions that give all the feels, the make-believe to make us believe (again)!

READINGS BY:  plus national and international poets and writers: Jessie Azkinazi, Jiwon Choi, Petyon Burgess, Vincent Cellucci, Kenning JP García, Clarinda Harriss, Skye Jackson, Gerry LaFemina, Isobel O’Hare, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Rone Shavers, Christopher Shipman, and Gregg Wilhelm.

CO-ORGANIZED by: Unlikely Books, Rigorous literary magazine, Dream Pop Press, and De Krewe de Louisiane.

READING / MUSIC

Always Crashing, Meekling Press, Barrelhouse
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Metro Gallery (21+ only)  |  1700 N Charles St
FREE

Readings and a special performance by dark experimental rock band Luna Honey

HOSTED BY: local press Barrelhouse along with Always Crashing and Meekling Press.

FEATURING: Tracy Dimond, Joe Sacksteder, Rachel Zavecz, David Leo Rice, Suzanne Gold, Robert Kloss, Whitney Koo, Jen Dary, Erica Stern, Kate Wyer, and MC Hyland. With a special performance by local band Luna Honey. 

READING / GAMES

Repair Shop: Literary Readings & Games
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Station North Tool Library  |  417 E. Oliver St
FREE

An AWP offsite literary salon celebrating repair in all its forms at Baltimore’s glorious Station North Tool Library. 
We’ll have prose and poetry readings, light crafting, relaxation, hydration, and community repair games. We hope it’s a leisurely, restorative late afternoon to help us all come down off a week full of overindulgence in the English language.

FEATURING: Emefa Agawu, Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham, Daniel Felsenthal, Negesti Kaudo, Nino McQuown, Chukwuma Ndulue, Shelby Switzer, M.K. Thekkumkattil, plus Repair Games with Ludic Liberation Lab

READING / PARTY

Read the Room: A Celebration of Literary Baltimore 
5:30 PM – 10:30 PM
2640 Space  |  2640 St. Paul St
FREE

Close out the last night of AWP with a party hosted by your favorite lit org’s favorite lit orgs. The evening starts with readings by Hopkins Review contributors and a silent auction benefiting local lit nonprofits. Plus free drinks and food from Blue Pit BBQ.
The dance party starts at 7:30 with DJ Heavenly C. (celeste doaks) and Gary 108, DJ, Esq. (Michael B. Tager).

CO-HOSTED BY: Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Apprentice House Press, Baltimore Review, Black Arts District / DewMore Baltimore, Bmore Art Magazine, CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth, CityLit Project, Clifton House, Creative Writing Program at the Community College of Baltimore County, Full Bleed, Good Contrivance Farm Writers Retreat, Greedy Reads, Hopkins Review, The Ivy Bookshop and Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, Lauren Cerand Public Relations, Lines + Stars / L+S Press, Manor Mill Writers Guild, Mason Jar Press, Mess and Friction, Smartish Pace + HOT_L Reading Series, Tomorrow Will Be Worse, University of Baltimore MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts, University of Maryland Creative Writing Program, Writers in Baltimore Schools, Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and Yellow Arrow Publishing.

READING

Wayward Writers Reading
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Atomic Books  |  800 Key Highway
Free  

FEATURING: Ariel Gore, Ayun Halliday, China Martins, Adrian Shirk, and more.

READING

Game Over Books and Garden Party Collective
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Ubalt Student Center, 5th floor  |  21 W Mt Royal Ave.
Free  

FEATURING: Mya Matteo Alexice, Ashley Elizabeth, Annie Marhefka, Aparna Paul, Jessica Nirvana Ram, Casey Newbegin, Maria Picone, Haley Bossé, Chiara di Lello, and Sara Mae

SPONSORED BY: The Klein Family Center for Communications Design.

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