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A Note on George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo, who will teach this year’s CityLit Festival Master Class
by Chelsea Lemon Fetzer If you get the chance to take a class with George Saunders, don’t miss it. Sure, he is one of the most masterful writers we get…
Terrance Hayes: A Poet of These Times: How We Breathe
by Dana Harris-Trovato Award-winning poet and MacArthur Fellow Terrance Hayes graced the CityLit Festival: Reimagined Zoom stage as a featured event, in conjunction with the Enoch Pratt Free Library, on…
Jenny Offill & Emily St. John Mandel Mark the Launch of CityLit Festival: Reimagined
Jenny Offill & Emily St. John Mandel Launch the month-long Festival with special events each week and daylong programming on March 20, 2021
CityLit Starts New Year with Inaugural Scribente Maternum
Hello CityLit Peeps, CityLit starts the new year with the inaugural Scribente Maternum: Write Like a Mother, a virtual writer’s retreat. Yea, we’re fancy but at its roots, those words…
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Awards CityLit’s Carla Du Pree The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Individual Award
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) has named CityLit’s Executive Director Carla Du Pree a recipient of its inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Individual Award. This award…
The Literary Arts Emergency Fund Awards More Than $3.5 Million
In a historic relief effort, $3.5 Million will be awarded to 282 Literary Arts Organizations, Magazines, and Presses Across the United States. We are excited to let you know that…
Second Anthology of Lo-Fi Poetry Series Published
Drum roll, please! CityLit Press just published the second anthology in its Lo-Fi Poetry Series, where poets cover a favorite record album. POET SOUNDS, a poetry anthology that riffs on…
Maryland State Department of Education Spotlights CityLit’s Carla Du Pree
In honor of the year of the woman, Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) Fine Arts celebrated the work of CityLit Project’s Executive Director, Carla Du Pree, for their April…