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X-WR-CALNAME:Baltimore · literary · next 7 days · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Writing the Truth: Lessons in Nonfiction Writing DTSTART:20260908T170000Z DTEND:20260929T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260907T183024Z UID:10005342-1788872400-1790697600@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Learn essential tools for powerful\, non-fiction\, narrative w riting in a range of different formats.\nThe workshop is designed for begi nning writers looking to gain a footing in non-fiction writing of differen t length and format\, from first-person essays to long-form magazine writi ng and even book-length projects. You’ll learn both by reading and by wr iting. \n\nLive video conference: This workshop will be held via our onli ne video conferencing platform\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on us ing the platform here. On the start date or the day before\, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don ’t see it). \n\nIn this workshop you’ll learn how to:\n\nDevelop resea rch and interviewing tools and methods\nWrite with power and clarity\nDeve lop an eye for detail and color\nIdentify characters to drive the story\nC onnect with the reader\n\nTime requirements\n\n30 minutes/week or less\n\n Materials\n\nAll reading materials will be provided.\n\n\nIf you need an a ccommodation for this workshop\, please contact us at access@writer.org. W e will attempt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary t o arrange for some accessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260907T183024Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/writing-the-truth-lessons-in-nonfiction-writi ng-3/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Archival Research for Creative Writing DTSTART:20260909T200000Z DTEND:20261007T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260907T183024Z UID:10005343-1788969600-1791396000@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:The art of narrative remix through historical research.\nAn in troduction to archival research through narrative writing and experimentat ion. Learn how to work with and historical resources\, interpret gaps\, an d reconstruct your own story as a public history tool. The workshop will i nclude a presentation of examples from the instructor’s current research process\, featuring archival imagery\, documents and story iterations. Pa rticipants will engage in exercises to think and write through their own n arrative projects\, whether meant for personal memoir or public scholarshi p. Designed for emerging scholars\, writers\, and community members intere sted in recovering underrepresented histories. \n\nLive video conference:  This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform\,  Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the st art date or the day before\, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it). \n\nIn this workshop you’ll learn how to:\n\nHarness archival resources\nWrite into the past \nUse narrative reconstruction as a research method\n\nTime requirements\n \n No time or reading is required outside of the classroom\n\nMaterials\n \nAll reading materials will be provided.\n\n\nIf you need an accommodatio n for this workshop\, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will atte mpt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange f or some accessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260907T183024Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/archival-research-for-creative-writing/?utm_s ource=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Turning Your Writing Practice into a Creative Offering DTSTART:20260913T170000Z DTEND:20260920T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260907T183024Z UID:10005348-1789304400-1789918200@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Write with purpose. Share with intention.\nIn this two-part wo rkshop series\, you’ll first explore how to build a restorative\, sustai nable writing practice rooted in your values\, interests\, and natural cre ative rhythms. Then on day two\, you’ll learn how to thoughtfully shape your writing into a creative offering\, identifying the messages you want to share\, the audience you hope to reach\, and the platforms or projects that best align with your goals. Whether you’re beginning your writing j ourney\, returning after time away\, or looking for fresh direction\, you ’ll leave with practical tools\, greater creative clarity\, and a deeper sense of purpose for both your writing practice and your creative life. P lease note: If you’ve previously taken GG’s standalone workshop\, Writ ing as a Restorative Practice\, the first day of this series covers much o f that same material. The second day offers new content focused on shaping your writing into a creative offering and sharing it with intention. \n\n Live video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video co nferencing platform\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the pla tform here. On the start date or the day before\, participants will receiv e an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it). \n\nIn this workshop you’ll learn:\n\nWrite from the Inside Out: Build a writing practice rooted in your values\, interests\, and authentic creat ive voice.\nDiscover Your Creative Themes: Identify the stories\, question s\, and ideas that continue to call you back.\nWork with Your Creative Rhy thm: Learn habits and processes that support inspiration without burnout.\ nShape Your Writing into a Creative Offering: Explore how your personal wr iting can evolve into a project or platform that feels aligned and meaning ful.\nConnect with Your Audience: Clarify who you hope to reach\, the mess ages you want to share\, and the best ways to engage with readers.\nEmbrac e Experimentation: Replace perfectionism with curiosity as you create a fl exible\, sustainable plan for sharing your work.\n\nTime requirements\n\n1 -2 hours\n\nMaterials\n\nAll reading materials will be provided.\n\n\nIf y ou need an accommodation for this workshop\, please contact us at access@w riter.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260907T183024Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/turning-your-writing-practice-into-a-creative -offering/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-m d X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:(Wet Ink) Experimentation in Flash Fiction DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261006 DTSTAMP:20260907T183024Z UID:10005349-1789344000-1791244799@writer.org CATEGORIES:education,literary DESCRIPTION:Discover how creative constraints can unlock surprising new po ssibilities in your writing.\nIn this four-week generative workshop\, we w ill explore how playing with time\, form\, and omission can change stories and move them beyond the familiar. Through close reading\, discussion\, a nd in-class exercises\, participants will experiment with techniques to pl ay with their stories. By the end of the workshop\, participants will have several new drafts as well as a toolkit of exercises and strategies for f uture work. Participants should come prepared to write and to read a small selection of flash fiction between sessions\; no advance preparation is r equired for the first class. \n\nLearn at your own pace: This workshop wi ll take place over Wet Ink\, which is an asynchronous creative writing pl atform. The instructor will post a lesson and assignment at the beginning of each week\, and participants can log in and read the lessons/post assig nments/comment on other classmates’ work at their convenience. Shortly b efore the start date\, participants will receive an invite from Wet Ink to create their login info and access the class. Please check your spam if y ou don’t see it. \n\nIn this workshop you’ll learn:\n\nCompression as a creative tool\nForm as a generator of story\nTime and narrative movement \nThe power of omission\nReimagining drafts through revision\n\nTime requi rements\n\nParticipants should expect to spend approximately 1–2 hours b etween sessions reading a small selection of flash fiction. Time for compl eting optional generative writing exercises is dependent on individual wri ters. Writers will be encouraged to share their drafts with the workshop.\ n\nMaterials\n\nAll reading materials will be provided.\n\nWho should take this workshop?\n\nThis workshop is designed for writers who want to expan d their creative practice through experimentation. It will be especially u seful for writers who find themselves relying on familiar approaches and a re interested in generating new work through constraint\, play and formal innovation. Writers of all genres and experience levels are welcome.\n\n\n If you need an accommodation for this workshop\, please contact us at acce ss@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notic e is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260907T183024Z LOCATION:Wet Ink URL:https://writer.org/event/wet-ink-experimentation-in-flash-fiction/?utm _source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rambling Readers DTSTART:20260917T140000Z DTEND:20260917T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T181032Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51101150940055 CATEGORIES:community,literary DESCRIPTION:Join a novel walking book club that covers more than novels! C ome as we share whatever book we are reading or listening to lately to sha re passions\, narratives\, clever information\, or artistry. Let’s learn from each other! \n\n \n\nWalking outside is the ultimate exercise and a n ideal way to socialize and relieve stress. So engage your physical\, soc ial\, and mental/intellectual health in one go!\n\n \n\nRendez-vous outsid e Central Library. From there\, we will make our way around Mount Vernon P lace\, walking a stretch before occasional pauses to take turns speaking. Expect to be back at the library in one hour. This event recurs every thir d Thursday of the month.\n\n \n\nFor questions or optional registration\, contact the Business\, Science\, & Technology Department (BST) at bst@prat tlibrary.org or (410) 396-5317. \n\n \n\nLibrarians from BST and the Ficti on departments will be facilitating. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181032Z LOCATION:Central Library\, Sidewalk URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/rambling_readers_1644?utm_sour ce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Network Book Club with The Jewish Library of Baltimore DTSTART:20260917T170000Z DTEND:20260917T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T004705Z UID:10010244-1789650000-1789653600@associated.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Network Book Club with The Jewish Library of Baltimore\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nThe Jewish Library of Baltimore and the Jewish Connection Networ k are excited to invite you to the next session of our Network Book Club. In this book club you will enjoy flexible participation (no need to commit to every meeting)\, connect with fellow book lovers in the same life stag e\, enjoy light snacks and beverages and engage in insightful discussions. \n\n\n\nPlus\, during this special session\, the author will join us via Zoom! \n\n\n\nBook: The Whisper Sister by Jennifer S. Brown \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Upcoming Events\n \n \n\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shabbat with YAD\n Slow down\, unplug from the week and build community over Shabbat d inner. With hosts across Baltimore\, you are sure to find a seat at our [ …] \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Young Adult Division (YAD) Flash Fundraiser\n Give back\, have fun and make your gift count . Join YAD for an evening that brings young adults together to support The Associated’s Annual Campaign […] \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n YAD Active/Wellness Collective: Sunset & Schmooze\n Meetin g point will be sent out the morning of the event. Leave work behind and j oin YAD for a sunset stroll. We’ll head outside for […] \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Viewpoints With Yo nah Jeremy Bob\n T he Associated’s Insight Israel Forum welcomes author\, lecturer\, Jerusa lem Post Senior Military Analyst and Baltimore native\, Yonah Jeremy Bob a s the first speaker in the […] LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T004705Z LOCATION:The Jewish Library of Baltimore\, 5700 Park Heights Avenue\, Balt imore\, 21215\, United States URL:https://associated.org/event/network-book-club-with-the-jewish-library -of-baltimore/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimo re-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Associated X-SOURCE-URL:https://associated.org/what-we-do/shape-jewish-journeys/holid ays/high-holidays/baltimore-area-synagogues END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fallston Books at the Center DTSTART:20260917T180000Z DTEND:20260917T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260828T000450Z UID:31675-1789653600-1789657200@www.mdhumanities.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss this year’s One Maryland One Book selecti on\, “No Sense in Wishing”\, by Lawrence Burney. Free copies of the 20 26 OMOB selection will be available at all HCPL locations while supplies l ast. Please call your favorite branch to check on book availability. One M aryland One Book is a program of Maryland Humanities. This project was mad e possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Maryland State Library. LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T000450Z LOCATION:Veronica “Roni” Chenowith Activity Center\, 1707 Fallston Roa d\, Fallston\, MD\, 21047\, United States URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org/event/fallston-books-at-the-center/?utm_s ource=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Maryland Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:One Maryland One Book Discussion: No Sense in Wishing by Lawrence Burney DTSTART:20260917T183000Z DTEND:20260917T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260902T120430Z UID:31785-1789655400-1789659000@www.mdhumanities.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of the 2026 One Maryland One Book sel ection\, No Sense in Wishing by Lawrence Burney. LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T120430Z LOCATION:Kent County Public Library\, North County Branch\, 119 N. Main St reet\, Galena\, MD\, 21635\, United States URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org/event/one-maryland-one-book-discussion-no -sense-in-wishing-by-lawrence-burney/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=i cs&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Maryland Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Best Book Club DTSTART:20260917T210000Z DTEND:20260917T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T181032Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53178828342361 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join us at the library and join friends in a book discussion! LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181032Z LOCATION:Brooklyn URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/brooklyns-best-book-club-1683? utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:GirlTREK Book Club: The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor DTSTART:20260917T220000Z DTEND:20260917T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2292623-1789668000-1789671600@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Read along with the GirlTREK book club at The Ivy Bookshop! \n Whether you’ve read every single page\, just started chapter one\, or si mply want to surround yourself with good company and great conversation\, you belong here. Come as you are! \nTogether\, we will journey through the interconnected lives of seven Black women as they navigate systemic hards hips within a neglected urban landscape. In true GirlTREK spirit\, their s hared struggles fuel a powerful testament to resilience\, healing\, and th e life-saving power of sisterhood and community. \nThe book club for Septe mber is The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor. RSVP here! \nAbout GirlTREK: Far more than a walking group\, GirlTREK is a life-saving sister hood. We are a campaign to heal intergenerational trauma\, fight systemic racism and transform Black lives. As women organize walking teams\, they a lso mobilize community members to support advocacy efforts and lead a Civi l Rights-inspired health movement. GirlTREK’s membership is currently at over one million and growing every day. Read more here. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:The Ivy Bookshop\, Back Patio\, 5928 Falls Road\, Baltimore\, MD\ , 21209 URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/girltrek-book-club-2/?utm_source= caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Howard French with Minkah Makalani & Madina Thiam: THE SECOND EMAN CIPATION DTSTART:20260917T220000Z DTEND:20260917T233000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2726987-1789668000-1789673400@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Journalist and author Howard W. French discusses his new volum e about Africa’s pivotal role in shaping world history at Bird in Hand! \n\n\n\n\nWe hope you’ll join us for this exciting conversation\, includ ing professors Minkah Makalani and Madina Thiam from the departments of Af ricana Studies and History at Johns Hopkins University. \nSubtitled Nkrum ah\, Pan-Africanism\, and Global Blackness at High Tide\, The Second Eman cipation provides an extraordinary account of Africa’s liberation from colonial oppression\, and is a work that fundamentally reshapes our unders tanding of modern history. \nThe title—referring to a brief period begin ning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom—positi ons this liberation at the center of a “movement of global Blackness\, ” with one charismatic leader\, Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972)\, at its hea d. \nThat so few people today know about Nkrumah is an omission that Frenc h demonstrates is “typical of our deliberate neglect of Africa’s enorm ous role in the birth of the modern world.” The book sets out to re-crea te Nkrumah’s life as “an epic twentieth-century story.” \nClick here to RSVP! \nClick here to order The Second Emancipation! \nHoward W. Fren ch is a journalist and author whose work spans five decades of reporting from Africa\, Asia\, the Caribbean\, and Central America. A former bureau chief and senior writer for The New York Times\, he joined the paper in 19 86 and reported from the front lines of history across four continents unt il 2008. He was one of the Times’ first Black foreign correspondents. \n Since 2008\, French has been a professor at the Columbia University Gradua te School of Journalism\, where he was named Professor of the Year in 2016 . He writes a widely read weekly column on Africa and international affair s for Foreign Policy and contributes regularly to The New York Review of B ooks\, The Atlantic\, and The Guardian. \nThe author of six books\, includ ing the acclaimed Born in Blackness (Liveright\, 2021)\, and The Second Em ancipation (Liveright\, 2025)\, French was elected as a member of the Amer ican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025. His forthcoming book\, The Jung les: Thelonious Monk and the Lost Cradle of Modern Jazz\, will be out in F ebruary 2027. \nMinkah Makalani is Associate Professor of Africana Studie s and History at Johns Hopkins University. \nMadina Thiam is Fannie Gasto n-Johansson Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History at Johns H opkins University. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Bird in Hand Coffee & Books\, 11 East 33rd Street\, Baltimore\, M D\, 21218\, United States URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/howard-french-with-minkah-makalan i-madina-thiam-the-second-emancipation/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium =ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Twinbrook Book Discussion Group DTSTART:20260917T223000Z DTEND:20260917T233000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T000433Z UID:31733-1789669800-1789673400@www.mdhumanities.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join us as we discuss the 2026 One Maryland One Book selection \, “No Sense in Wishing: Essays”\, by Lawrence Burney. Free\, no regis tration\, all are welcome. LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T000433Z LOCATION:Montgomery County Public Libraries\, Twinbrook Library\, 202 Mead ow Hall Drive\, Rockville\, MD\, 20851\, United States URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org/event/twinbrook-book-discussion-group-2/? utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Maryland Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Baltimore Silent Book Club DTSTART:20260917T223000Z DTEND:20260918T003000Z DTSTAMP:20260915T233740Z UID:10005292-1789669800-1789677000@oldmajorbaltimore.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:OM is a host of the Silent Book Club. Bring a book\, grab a bi te/food and enjoy reading your book in the company of fellow book lovers! \nThe event kicks off at 6:30 p.m. with introductions and eating/drinking. The silent reading hour will run 7:30-8:30 p.m. Afterward\, feel free to stick around for mingling or more reading. \nAbout Silent Book Club \nSile nt Book Club is a global community of readers and introverts\, with 300 ch apters around the world led by local volunteers. SBC members gather in per son and online to read together in quiet camaraderie. \nSilent Book Club s tarted in 2012 with a couple of friends—Guinevere de la Mare and Laura G luhanich—reading in companionable silence at their neighborhood bar in S an Francisco. They loved books\, and reading with friends\, but most of th eir previous attempts at book clubs had fizzled out. \nOften with traditio nal book clubs there’s the scramble to finish the assigned book\, and the pressure to have something smart to say. Wouldn’t it be great to h ave a book club where you could just enjoy books\, friends\, and wine—wi thout any homework? At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T233740Z LOCATION:Old Major\, 900 South Carey Street\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21223\, Uni ted States URL:http://oldmajorbaltimore.com/events/baltimore-silent-book-club-10/2026 -09-17/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Old Major X-SOURCE-URL:http://oldmajorbaltimore.com/events/read-the-room-a-prose-poe try-readings-literature-open-mic-2/2024-08-01 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ke Huy Quan: "Never Say Die" DTSTART:20260917T230000Z DTEND:20260918T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260825T002759Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53425731838228 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:**THIS PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT** \n\n \n\nIn this stunning and com pulsively readable memoir\, the Oscar-winning star of Indiana Jones and th e Temple of Doom\, The Goonies\, and Everything Everywhere All at Once\, K e Huy Quan\, tells the story of his journey from Vietnamese refugee to 80s child star to the most inspiring comeback in Hollywood history. \n\n \n\n Ke Huy Quan’s Hollywood adventure began when he was twelve years old\, a mere five years after his family escaped Communist Northern Vietnam and s ettled down to a relatively peaceful life in L.A.’s Chinatown. After att ending an open call audition on a whim\, he was unexpectedly swept up in t he wild world of filmmaking: learning to swim from Harrison Ford on the se t of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\, receiving trucks full of toys from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for his birthday\, meeting Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker\, and making lifelong friends on the set of The G oonies.\n\n\n \nA star of two of the most beloved movies of the ‘80s\, t here appeared to be no limit to Ke’s rise. But just a few years later\, the roles had dried up and it seemed like Hollywood no longer had a place for him. He eventually left acting to work odd jobs behind the scenes for directors like Wong Kar Wai. His confidence was badly shaken\, but his lov e of performing never abated. It wasn’t until decades later\, when he wa s 49 years old\, that he stepped back in front of the camera to star in a strange little indie film called Everything Everywhere All at Once\, which surprised everyone with its incredible box-office and awards season succe ss. To call Ke’s Oscar-winning performance a triumphant return would be an understatement.\n\n\n \nIn this moving\, inspirational memoir\, Ke pain ts a vivid self-portrait\, telling both heart-wrenching and funny stories of his early rise\, slow fall from the spotlight\, the resilience that kep t him going through his darkest times\, and his eventual resurrection on o ne of the biggest stages in Hollywood. Never Say Die is the story of Ke’ s extraordinary life\, a love letter to the movies and people that shaped him\, and a powerful testament to never giving up on your dreams.\n\n \n\n Ke Huy Quan will be joined in conversation by Karsonya Wise Whitehead\, ho st of Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA 88.9 FM.\n\n \n\nAbout the Author: \n\nK e Huy Quan is an Oscar-winning actor who immigrated to the United States a s a child and grew up in Los Angeles. Discovered at an open casting call w ith no acting experience\, he was cast at age 12 as Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\, followed by his role as Data in the belove d adventure classic\, Goonies. As opportunities became limited\, he steppe d away from acting to study at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts\, graduati ng in 1999\, and later worked behind the scenes as an action choreographer and assistant director. After more than two decades away from acting\, he returned to the screen in Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Academy Aw ard–winning Everything Everywhere All At Once\, earning widespread accla im along with the Academy Award\, Golden Globe\, and SAG Award for Best Su pporting Actor. He has since appeared in Season 2 of the Disney+ series Lo ki\, starred in Universal’s Love Hurts\, and voiced Gary De’ Snake in Disney’s animated film Zootopia 2. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife \, Echo.\n\n \n\nAbout the Moderator:\n\nKarsonya Wise Whitehead is the ho st of Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA 88.9 FM. She is the founding director of The Karson Institute for Race\, Peace & Social Justice\, as well as a com munication and African and African American Studies professor at Loyola Un iversity.\n\n \n\nAbout the Program: \n\nDoors will open to registered att endees at 6 pm. Seating for registered attendees in Central Hall is first come\, first served. All registered in-person attendees will receive a fre e copy of the book while supplies last. There will not be a book signing following the program. Free parking vouchers are available to program atte ndees who park at the Franklin Street Garage (15 W. Franklin Street) after 4pm. Ask Pratt event staff for your parking voucher prior to or after th e program. All bags\, backpacks\, briefcases\, etc. entering and exiting t he library will be subject to inspection by security personnel. No large b ags.This is a seated event with spaces reserved for individuals with acces sibility needs. ASL interpretation will also be available for attendees th roughout the event. If you need additional accommodations to successfully participate\, please let us know at events@prattlibrary.org or 443-768-076 2. LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T002759Z LOCATION:Central Library\, Central Hall URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/ke-huy-quan-never-say-die?utm_ source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Virtual Craft Chat on Fiction w/ Bret Anthony Johnston DTSTART:20260917T230000Z DTEND:20260918T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260910T062843Z UID:10005188-1789671600-1789675200@writer.org CATEGORIES:free,literary DESCRIPTION:The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the c raft of fiction! We’re joined by author Bret Anthony Johnston for a disc ussion of his new collection\, Encounters with Unexpected Animals. Bret is in conversation with Varun​ Gauri\, novelist and Board member at The Wr iter’s Center. \nRSVP below to receive login information (our virtual e vents are held via Zoom). FREE and open to the public\, all times Eastern \nWe encourage you to order a copy of the book from your local\, independ ent bookseller or online from Bookshop.org » \n\nBret Anthony Johnston  is the author of the bestselling novels We Burn Daylight and Remember M e Like This\, the award-winning Corpus Christi: Stories\, and the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. His wor k has appeared in The New Yorker\, Esquire\, The Paris Review\, Thrasher Magazine\, The Best American Short Stories\, and elsewhere. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Sunday Ti mes Short Story Award\, he was born and raised in Texas and is the directo r of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. \n\nAbout Encounters with Unexpected Animals\nAn imaginative\, moving co llection of stories infused with the magic and enigma of the human conditi on and drenched in Texas heat\, from the best-selling author of We Burn D aylight. \nEncounters with Unexpected Animals takes readers deep into the heart of bestselling author Bret Anthony Johnston’s home state of Texas \, where teenagers search for love\, parents grasp at connections with the ir children\, and animals—real or imagined\, familiar or unexpected—ar e reminders of the mystery\, danger\, and beauty of being alive. \nIn “C aiman\,” a father buys a baby alligator in hopes of keeping his family s afe. In “Soldier of Fortune\,” a teenage boy dog-sits for his neighbor s after tragedy strikes\, and his innocent snooping uncovers the family’ s most guarded secret. And in the luminous “Half of What Atlee Rouse Kno ws About Horses\,” an elderly man’s heart is laid bare with the raw an d breathtaking power of wild horses. \nJohnston’s humor\, empathy\, and mastery of prose ring out through each story\, bringing every finely-drawn character to radiant life. Individually\, the stories are by turns suspen seful\, poignant and exhilarating. Taken together\, they reveal the abidin g connections that lead us from sorrow and impermanence back to ourselves and\, ultimately\, to each other. \n\nIf you need an accommodation for thi s event\, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulf ill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some acc essibility services. \n\nEnjoying our free events? Help us offer more pro grams to support writers with a $10 donation » LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T062843Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/bret-anthony-johnston/?utm_source=caldiscover y&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Peace Gathering: Gardens for Peace DTSTART:20260918T133000Z DTEND:20260918T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T002942Z UID:event-6916-1789738200@harborbeat.com CATEGORIES:community,literary,music DESCRIPTION:Kick off the new school year by cultivating a deeply rooted cu lture of friendship and community. We invite you to join us in the AA&CC ’s Asian Garden for live music\, poetry readings\, and a ceremonial raki ng of heiwa (へいわ)—the Japanese… LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T002942Z LOCATION:Towson University\, Asian Garden at Center for the Arts\, AA&CC A sian Garden at South entrance URL:https://harborbeat.com/event/peace-gathering-gardens-for-peace/6916?ut m_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:HarborBeat — Upcoming Baltimore Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.harborbeat.com/events/workshops END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Baltimore Book Festival DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921 DTSTAMP:20260729T234823Z UID:14749-1789776000-1789948799@www.citylitproject.org CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T234823Z LOCATION:Waverly Main Street\, 418 E 32nd Street\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21218\ , United States URL:https://www.citylitproject.org/event/baltimore-book-festival-2026/?utm _source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:CityLit Project X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.citylitproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:29SCC Outreach @ Baltimore Book Festival DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921 DTSTAMP:20260915T234034Z UID:32rk6pqo7n5bfog8hrvrkg3unj@google.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T234034Z X-SOURCE-NAME:29th Street Public Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://29thstreetcommunitycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Ivy Bookshop at The Baltimore Book Festival! DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921 DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2547042-1789776000-1789948799@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. Come on out both days to see an array of incredible authors from here in Baltimore and across t he country\, hosted collaboratively by Baltimore’s many wonderful bookis h organizations.\nOn Sunday\, September 20th\, the Ivy is thrilled to be h osting the 31st St. Stage! See below for more information about the events on our stage that day:\n\n\n11am: Louise Marburg and Elizabeth Hazen: FAN CY MEETING YOU\n12pm: P.C. Verrone and Amani Jackson: RABBIT\, FOX\, TAR\n 1pm: Lenna Jawdat and Ramsey Hanhan: 70\,000: POEMS\n3pm: Alexandra Elle a nd Maureen Nicol: THE COMPANY WE KEEP\n4pm: Robert Isaacs and J. Wynn Rous uck: IT’S HARD TO BE AN ANIMAL\n\n\nSee you there! LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Waverly Main Street\, 418 E 32nd St\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21218 URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/the-ivy-bookshop-at-the-baltimore -book-festival/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltim ore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rental: PRIVATE / Baltimore Read Aloud DTSTART:20260919T130000Z DTEND:20260919T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260915T234034Z UID:3dsp6nsceiph5bc1otit4pbbbs@google.com CATEGORIES:community,literary DESCRIPTION:Author green room for Childrens' Stage guests during the Balti more Book Festival. Sponsored by Baltimore Read Aloud. LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T234034Z LOCATION:29th Street Community Center-1-Classroom - 1st Fl (107) (30) X-SOURCE-NAME:29th Street Public Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://29thstreetcommunitycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CityLit Stage presents Funny Ladies: Stars of Comic Fiction Talk S hop DTSTART:20260919T140000Z DTEND:20260919T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T183149Z UID:14821-1789812000-1789815600@www.citylitproject.org CATEGORIES:comedy,literary DESCRIPTION:Funny Ladies: Stars of Comic Fiction Talk Shop \n10:00 am – 11:00 am\nCityLit Stage\nEast 31st Street & Barclay Street\nBaltimore\, MD 21201 \nThree acclaimed women authors talk about their latest books\, the craft of humor\, and the role of comic fiction in the current social and political landscape. What makes something funny? Why is humor important? H ow does absurdity function both as entertainment and as a form of commenta ry on serious matters? The books under discussion range widely in focus\, from the world of literary event planning to the interior lives of the soc ial media generation to the surreal landscape of the afterlife. This meeti ng of great comic minds promises to be inspiring\, profound\, and laugh-ou t-loud funny. Novelist Susan Coll\, whose newly published novel\, Word Sal ad\, “is a moving\, thoughtful exploration of the complicated nature of grief and the power that books have to help us find ourselves when we’re lost\,” writes national bestseller Grant Grinder. Coll is the events ad visor at Politics and Prose Bookstore. Amy Fusselman‘s latest book\, Clo ud Six\, which Literary Hub named A Most Anticipated Book of the Year\, is a comic novel about an unfortunate couple navigating the lowest tier of h eaven. Baltimore’s Sydney Rende’s short story collection has been call ed “an invaluable tip-sheet to the way we live now\, I Could Be Famous c aptures perfectly the hazards of young womanhood in a world where everyone is desperate to be looked at\, but wary of being seen.” (Jonathan Dee\, author of Pulitzer Prize Finalist The Privileges). Betsy Boyd\, director of Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program at the University of B altimore\, joins us as moderator. Her fiction has been published in Kenyon Review\, American Short Fiction\, Five Points\, and StoryQuarterly. \nSus an Coll\, whose ninth novel\, Word Salad\, a comedy of manners\, “remind s us that sometimes things have to completely fall apart for them to perfe ctly come together.” Her previous books include Bookish People\; The Sta ger\, a New York Times and Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice\; and Accepta nce\, which was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack. Her wor k has appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review an d the Washington Post. She is the events advisor at Politics and Prose Boo kstore\, and the former president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.\nsusanco ll.com\nInstagram: @susan_keselenko_coll \nAmy Fusselman is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest book\, Cloud Six\, is a co mic novel about an unfortunate couple navigating the lowest tier of heaven . Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, the Wash ington Post\, and many other outlets. She lives with her family in New Yor k City.\namyfusselman.com \nSydney Rende is the author of the short story collection\, I Could Be Famous. A reality TV enthusiast since that fateful night in 2007 when LC called Spencer Pratt a Sucky Person\, she will chal lenge anyone who argues that reality TV isn’t high art. A writer and edi tor from Baltimore\, Maryland\, her work has been deemed a “terrific deb ut” by George Saunders: “Eleven fast\, sharp\, funny stories laced wit h a deep\nunderstanding of the corrosive effect our fame-hungry attention economy has on real connection between people. Rende is such a witty\, eng aging writer\, with an intuitive understanding that the short story is in the world to delight\, engage\, and enlarge the reader.” Her work can be found at the New York Times Style Magazine\, Carve Magazine\, Joyland\, a nd elsewhere.\nwww.sydneyrende.com\nInstagram: @sydneyrende \nBetsy Boyd ’s fiction has been published in Kenyon Review\, American Short Fiction\ , Five Points\, StoryQuarterly\, Shenandoah\, and elsewhere. Her short sto ry “Scarecrow” received a Pushcart Prize. Betsy directs the Creative W riting and Publishing Arts MFA program at the University of Baltimore and is the recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council awards\, an Elliot Col eman Writing Fellowship\, a James A. Michener Fellowship\, and residencies through Fundación Valparaíso\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Art s\, the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists\, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. \n                  \nVisit the News Section for detailed information. \nSTAY INFORMED LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T183149Z LOCATION:31st Street Stage\, 31st Street & Barclay Street\, Baltimore\, MD \, 21218\, United States URL:https://www.citylitproject.org/event/funny-ladies-stars-of-comic-ficti on-talk-shop/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimor e-md X-SOURCE-NAME:CityLit Project X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.citylitproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Freedom With Forms DTSTART:20260919T140000Z DTEND:20260919T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260910T183129Z UID:10005361-1789812000-1789821000@writer.org CATEGORIES:education,literary DESCRIPTION:Have you discovered the liberation of writing poetry in forms? \nHere’s an opportunity to shed any misconception that poetic forms are only constricting. We will do brief writing exercises that use the enchant ment of meter and rhyme to free your deeper imagination. After exploring s everal traditional forms\, we will experiment with creating improvised (no nce) forms. Participants may leave with at least one new draft poem and id eas for creating more. \n\nLive video conference: This workshop will be h eld via our online video conferencing platform\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before \, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your s pam if you don’t see it). \n\nIn this workshop you’ll learn:\n\nHow “received” forms can tap the imagination in unexpected ways\nHow to va ry forms and yet leave them recognizable\nTriolet and other short forms\nG hazal and other longer forms\nNonce Forms\n\nTime requirements\n\nN/A\n\nM aterials\n\nAll reading materials will be provided.\n\n\nIf you need an ac commodation for this workshop\, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T183129Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/freedom-with-forms-2/?utm_source=caldiscovery &utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Carroll Book Festival DTSTART:20260919T140000Z DTEND:20260919T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260912T181713Z UID:10011702-1789812000-1789833600@carrollcountytourism.org CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to present the first ever Carroll Book Festiv al on Saturday\, September 19\, 2026 from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. \nThe day will build upon Carroll County\, Maryland’s reputation as being a commun ity of readers who support authors. \nFor more information! https://carrol lbookfestival.org/ \nActivities including: children’s character breakfas t\, ticketed author events\, book signings\, book-related vendors\, author panels\, book sales. \nCarroll Book Festival is presented by Carroll Coun ty Public Library in partnership with Park Books on Main\, Carroll County Economic Development\, Last Word Bookstore\, and the Two Sides to the Stor y Podcast. LAST-MODIFIED:20260912T181713Z LOCATION:Carroll County Farm Museum\, 500 South Center St\, Westminster\, MD\, 21157\, United States URL:https://carrollcountytourism.org/event/carroll-book-festival/?utm_sour ce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Carroll County Tourism | Carroll County\, Maryland X-SOURCE-URL:https://carrollcountytourism.org/series/md-family-food-truck- nights END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Baltimore Book Festival DTSTART:20260919T140000Z DTEND:20260920T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T180142Z UID:10007403-1789812000-1789855200@baltimorecountymoms.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:The Baltimore Book Festival returns to the streets of Waverly this September\, with a two day celebration of books and authors\, brought to you by Baltimore’s bookstores and literary community. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T180142Z LOCATION:Waverly URL:https://baltimorecountymoms.com/event/baltimore-book-festival/?utm_sou rce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Baltimore County Moms X-SOURCE-URL:https://baltimorecountymoms.com/2025-farmers-markets END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BALTIMORE BOOK FESTIVAL-"Reggie Webb's Children's Book Catatlog" DTSTART:20260919T140000Z DTEND:20260919T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T062757Z UID:event-6970-1789826400@harborbeat.com CATEGORIES:family,festival,literary DESCRIPTION:Dive into Reggie Webb’s colorful world at Baltimore Book Fes t\, exploring awesome kids' books live! LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T062757Z LOCATION:401 E 30th St\, 401 East 30th Street\, Baltimore\, MD 21218 URL:https://harborbeat.com/event/baltimore-book-festival-reggie-webb-s-chi ldren-s-book-catatlog/6970?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_camp aign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:HarborBeat — Upcoming Baltimore Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.harborbeat.com/events/workshops END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pratt Page-Turners Book Club DTSTART:20260919T150000Z DTEND:20260919T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T181032Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53242719602120 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Positive Obsession: The Life and T imes of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris.\n\n \n\nThis program has a hybrid format. Participate either in person or on Zoom.\n \n\n \n\nAs the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of scienc e fiction\, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen\, she crea ted stories speculating on the devolution of the American empire\, using i t as an apt metaphor for the best and worst of humanity: our innovation an d ingenuity\, our naked greed and ambition\, our propensity for violence a nd hierarchy. Her fiction charts the rise and fall of the American project —the nation's transformation from a provincial backwater to a capitalist juggernaut made possible by chattel slavery\, to a bloated imperialist su perpower on the verge of implosion.\n\n \n\nIn this outstanding work\, Sus ana M. Morris places Butler's story firmly within the cultural\, social\, and historical context that shaped her life: the Civil Rights Movement\, B lack Power\, women's liberation\, queer rights\, Reaganomics. Morris revea ls how these influences profoundly impacted Butler's personal and intellec tual trajectory and shaped the ideas central to her writing. Her cautionar y tales warn us about succumbing to fascism\, gender-based violence\, and climate chaos while offering alternate paradigms to religion\, family\, an d understanding our relationships to ourselves. Butler envisioned futures with Black women at the center\, raising our awareness of how those who ar e often dismissed have the knowledge to shift the landscape of our world.\ n\n \n\nFor help obtaining a copy of the book or more information about th e book club\, please email fic@prattlibrary.org.\n\n \n\nFree parking vali dation stickers will be available to program attendees who park at the Fra nklin Street Garage (15 W. Franklin Street) while supplies last. Take a ti cket when you enter the garage\, and ask Pratt event staff for your parkin g validation sticker prior to or after the program. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181032Z LOCATION:Central Library\, Poe Room URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/pratt-page-turners-book-club-1 105?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Poe's Death in Baltimore Bus Tour (limited dates) DTSTART:20260919T150000Z DTEND:20260919T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T234819Z UID:10000336-1789815600-1789828200@www.poeinbaltimore.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Baltimore\, October 1849. Edgar Allan Poe is discovered alone\ , clad in filthy rags\, confused and gravely ill\, with no clear account o f how he came to be there. Within days\, he is dead. The master of mystery leaves behind a final story no one can fully explain. As we travel throug h Baltimore\, you’ll stand in the places tied to his last days and explo re the line between documented fact and enduring legend.\n \nExplore the enduring mystery surrounding Poe’s tragic end on a special Bus Tour of E dgar Allan Poe’s Life and Death in Baltimore. Bus Tours are offered ever y month\, April Thru October. Additional tour option includes prix-fixe lu ncheon at Baltimore’s original Annabel Lee Tavern (May thru Sept only.)\ n\n\n\n\n\nTours include stops at important Poe Places around Baltimore\, including: \n\nPickup at the Baltimore Visitor Center\, 401 Light Street i n Inner Harbor\nThe Hospital where Poe died\nWestminster Hall & Burying Gr ound including two Poe graves\nThe Poe Statue\nTour of The Edgar Allan P oe House & Museum\nReturn to Vistor Center\n\nPlease note that Poe House i s an historic site and not ADA accessible (there is no elevator or ramp to the second floor.) \n\nTours leave from the Baltimore Visitor Center\; ch eck dates for available tour times. Meet your guide 10-minutes before your tour time inside the Baltimore Visitor Center at the gift shop register\; refunds will not be granted to late arrivals.\n\nDates are limited: 3rd S aturday each month\, April – September. For October dates see our festiv al schedule (released July 1) \nBOOK YOUR TOUR(You will be taken to our Pe ek Ticketing System) LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T234819Z LOCATION:The Baltimore Visitor Center\, 401 Light Street\, Baltimore\, MD\ , 21223\, United States URL:https://www.poeinbaltimore.org/event/poe-death-in-baltimore-bus-tour-l imited-dates-2/2026-09-19/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_camp aign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Poe Baltimore X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.poeinbaltimore.org/museum/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Recent Grad Writers Mixer DTSTART:20260919T150000Z DTEND:20260919T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T062807Z UID:10005321-1789815600-1789822800@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Are you a writer who recently graduated? Join us for an inform al gathering at The Writer’s Center to hang out and talk writing! Please bring a drink or an appetizer that serves six. You’re welcome to bring a friend\, too. \nFREE & open to all DMV writers who have recently graduat ed. RSVP required below. \nAttending? We encourage you to become a member of The Writer’s Center for only $65/year » LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T062807Z LOCATION:The Writer’s Center\, 4508 Walsh Street\, Bethesda\, MD\, 20815 \, United States URL:https://writer.org/event/recent-grad-writers-mixer-sept26/?utm_source= caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Poetry Of Human Rights DTSTART:20260919T150000Z DTEND:20260919T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T122943Z UID:10005360-1789815600-1789822800@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Poem are personal until shared\, contributing then to social a nd political awareness and a defense of liberty.\nWe will read and write p oems that increase our knowledge of war and peacemaking\, We will seek to define terms. What is war? What is a poem written in the wake of a bombing ? Who has the right to write the poem? Does poetry make something happen? Can we save ourselves\, our communities\, our countries by writing? \n\nLi ve video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video conf erencing platform\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platf orm here. On the start date or the day before\, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it). \ n\nIn this workshop you’ll:\n\nLearn to write poems in response to the d aily news\nUnderstand what distinguishes free from formal verse.\nLearn to write a poem in 10 minutes.\n\nTime requirements\n\nN/A\n\nMaterials\n\nA ll reading materials will be provided.\n\n\nIf you need an accommodation f or this workshop\, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T122943Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/the-poetry-of-human-rights/?utm_source=caldis covery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CityLit Stage presents The Knotted Path of Becoming: Stories That Test the Human Spirit DTSTART:20260919T153000Z DTEND:20260919T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T183149Z UID:14829-1789817400-1789821000@www.citylitproject.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:The Knotted Path of Becoming: Stories That Test the Human Spir it \n11:30 am – 12:30 pm\nCityLit Stage\nEast 31st Street & Barclay Stre et\nBaltimore\, MD 21201 \nWhy do we avoid topics that could bring us clos er together with a wider understanding? We sidestep the hard\, uncomfortab le issues out of politeness\, awkwardness\, or fear—but they’re the ve ry subjects that build connections\, heal deep wounds\, and move the needl e in important ways. We open this session with The Moth-like storytelling that includes author Phill Branch’s tale\, the shame of failing at boyho od\, and what it means “to feel ruined from the start.” Three storytel lers will share testimonies of heartbreak\, the courage in navigating diff icult conversations\, and the resilience of the human spirit. \nBranch kno ws well the power of humor in broaching heavy subjects. In praise of Branc h’s book The Double Dutch Fuss\, Roy Wood\, Jr. (The Man of Many Fathers ) notes: “When wielded responsibly\, humor can heal and also educate. Ph ill exhibits this ability with great profundity as he shows us how fathers shape us even when they don’t know how to love us well.” Diana Veiga —whose one-woman show I’m Just Doing My Job premiered at the Capital F ringe Festival in 2022—reveals how working at the public library is alre ady a tough job – now add a tougher customer\, mix in a difficult conver sation\, and stir. Heather Moyer joins us representing Mortified\, a multi -modal storytelling show produced by Alexandra Hewett\, where brave adults share embarrassing things they created as kids (old diaries\, letters\, l yrics & more) in front of total strangers. Moyer is a communications profe ssional and one of the founding members of the Baltimore Improv Group. Jes s Solomon serves as moderator in conversation with Branch to discuss diffi cult conversations with equal parts insight\, depth\, and humor. She is a Baltimore-based organization development practitioner and comedian who spe nds her days in boardrooms and her nights on stage.\nwww.themoth.org/stori es/if-the-suit-fits \nPhill Branch is a writer\, live performance storytel ler\, and regional Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. He is a 2025 recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council’s Creativity Grant and received the Cou ncil’s highest honor\, the Individual Artist Award\, for Theater (Solo P erformance) in 2019. He was the GrandSLAM Champion of The Moth in D.C. in 2018 and has since traveled all over the country and overseas to tell stor ies with the organization. Branch was a 2014 Lambda Literary Nonfiction Em erging Voices Fellow and is the founder and Creative Director of Baltimore Story Fest\, a showcase for live\, personal storytelling. An alumnus of t he American Film Institute\, Branch has an MFA in Screenwriting. He earned his BA in Mass Media Arts at Hampton University and later returned as a p rofessor in the English department to teach writing and develop the Film S tudies program. Branch is a Resident Artist at the Howard County Center fo r the Arts in Maryland.\nphillbranch.com \nInstagram: @phillbranch \nDian a Veiga is a writer\, storyteller\, and comedienne. Born and raised in Sil ver Spring\, MD\, she is a graduate of Spelman College and works for the D C Public Library. Diana has performed storytelling and stand-up throughout the DC area from the Lincoln Theater to the DC Improv. Her one-woman show \, I’m Just Doing My Job\, premiered at the Capital Fringe Festival in J uly 2022.\ndianaveiga.com\nInstagram: @dianaveigatells \nHeather Moyer is a communications professional and one of the founding members of the Balti more Improv Group. A Midwest native\, Heather has now been in Baltimore fo r 22 years and loves it. They have been performing and teaching improv com edy since 2001. Heather lives in SW Baltimore with their wife and kiddo. \ nJess Solomon is a Baltimore-based organization development practitioner a nd comedian who helps social impact leaders navigate the tension between i mpact\, culture\, and resources by day\, then goes home and writes jokes a bout it. Founder of Mabley Comedy Club and principal of the multidisciplin ary studio Culture Rules Everything\, she works at the intersection of str ategy\, facilitation\, and systems-level culture design.\nwww.culturerules everything.com\nInstagram: @jesssolomazing \n              \nVisit the News Section for detailed information. \nSTAY INFORMED LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T183149Z LOCATION:31st Street Stage\, 31st Street & Barclay Street\, Baltimore\, MD \, 21218\, United States URL:https://www.citylitproject.org/event/the-knotted-path-of-becoming-stor ies-that-test-the-human-spirit/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm _campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:CityLit Project X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.citylitproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CityLit Stage presents Inferno of Justice: Burn Down The Master's House DTSTART:20260919T170000Z DTEND:20260919T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260821T182616Z UID:14831-1789822800-1789826400@www.citylitproject.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Inferno of Justice: Burn Down The Master’s House \n1:00 pm – 2:00 pm\nCityLit Stage\nEast 31st Street & Barclay Street\nBaltimore\, MD 21201 \nTrue justice isn’t found in fixing broken systems\; it’s a bout complete restructuring. Referencing Audre Lorde’s quote\, “The ma ster’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Deemed bold\, brutal\, and unflinching\, Burn Down Master’s House by Clay Cane is a w ork of historical fiction about enslaved people who fought back against un imaginable cruelty. Ibram X. Kendi calls it “a resistance story for the ages.” A powerful tale\, “Yes\, this book will make you uncomfortable\ , but discomfort is the extravagant price of truth\,” says Cane\, whose work challenges the way history has been written\, falsified\, or erased\, and how collective opposition is possible. “With shades of Kindred\, Ja mes\, and The Prophets\, this story belongs to a long tradition of resista nce that traces back to 1526\,” writes Keith Boykin\, “when enslaved A fricans burned down their captors’ settlement in what is now South Carol ina.”  What one reader shared about this fascinating debut work: “A M UST READ …I can’t emphasize enough. It’s four short stories inspired by real-life enslaved people who dared to fight back … the characters a re incredible. I’m going to think about this the rest of my life.” \n “Burn Down Master’s House reclaims the lost voices of American slavery \,” writes Angie Thomas\, “and fearlessly confronts myths that whitewa sh history.” In this session\, two-time New York Times bestselling autho r and award-winning journalist Cane discusses writing about resisting oppr ession with activist and founder of Busboys and Poets Andy Shallal\, who r ecently published his memoir: A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys a nd Poets. \nClay Cane is a two-time New York Times bestselling author\, aw ard-winning journalist\, radio host\, and political analyst. He is the hos t of The Clay Cane Show on SiriusXM Urban View\, channel 126\, and his wor k has been featured in The Washington Post\, CNN.com\, and BET. Over the c ourse of his career\, Cane has interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris\, Beyoncé Knowles\, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett\, Denzel Washington\, an d many others. He is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller B urn Down Master’s House: A Novel and The Grift: The Downward Spiral of B lack Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult\, also a New York T imes bestseller. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers University with a B. A. in English and African American Studies\, Cane is originally from Phila delphia.\nclay-cane.com\nInstagram: @claycane \nAnas “Andy” Shallal is an Iraqi-born artist\, activist\, social entrepreneur\, and founder/CEO o f Busboys and Poets\, a restaurant\,  bookstore\, and performance venue i n the Washington Metropolitan area. He opened the first location in 2005 a s part restaurant\, part agent for social change. With nine locations in W ashington\, DC\, Maryland\, and Virginia\, Busboys and Poets has become a home for progressives\, artists\, creatives\, and intellectuals. Shallal i s a 2018 Frederick Douglass 200 award winner for those who best embody Dou glass’ spirit\, a TEDx speaker\, and the founder of several peace and ju stice organizations. His memoir\, A Seat At the Table: The Making of Busbo ys and Poets\, has been called “A fast-moving memoir” by Ralph Nadar\, “magnificent” by Alice Walker\, and “a singular story\, told here w ith the focus on big ideas and love of community that have propelled him o ver the years\,” by Publishers Weekly. He is on the board of trustees fo r the Institute for Policy Studies\, Palestine House of Freedom\, DAWN\, t he Anacostia Coordinating Council\, and a founding member of Think Local F irst DC\, a local business association serving in advisory and leadership roles to advance progressive business and labor practices. Shallal receive d his B.S. in biology from Catholic University of America and an MBA from The Robert Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in Colle ge Park.\nbusboysandpoets.com\nInstagram: @andyshallal\nX: @andyshallal \n       \nVisit the News Section for detailed information. \nSTAY INFORM ED LAST-MODIFIED:20260821T182616Z LOCATION:31st Street Stage\, 31st Street & Barclay Street\, Baltimore\, MD \, 21218\, United States URL:https://www.citylitproject.org/event/inferno-of-justice-burn-down-the- masters-house/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimo re-md X-SOURCE-NAME:CityLit Project X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.citylitproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Underground Railroad Month Program DTSTART:20260919T173000Z DTEND:20260919T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260915T235458Z UID:1984-1789824600-1789828200@www.lewismuseum.org CATEGORIES:community,literary DESCRIPTION:International Underground Railroad Month Program:\nFamily Hist ory Conversation with Dr. John F. Leeke and Ananda Leeke \nSeptember 19 @ 1 pm – 2:30 pm \nIn celebration of International Underground Railroad Mo nth this September\, join Dr. John F. Leeke and his daughter\, Ananda Leek e\, as they share their family’s extraordinary story of freedom seekers. Through research on Ancestry.com for Dr. Leeke’s memoir\, American Chan ge Agent: A Life & Legacy of Seeking Diversity\, Equality\, and Inclusion\ , they traced their origins back to Hagerstown\, Maryland\, where Peter an d Catherine Leek escaped to Amherstburg\, Canada\, alongside their 14 chil dren. \nThis multigenerational discussion highlights John’s early work a s a pioneer for diversity\, equality\, and inclusion long before DEI gaine d widespread recognition. Together with co-author Ananda Leeke\, they expl ore progress\, challenges\, and the continuous push for equality. Their jo int insights show how ancestral heritage and historical perspective inform modern activism\, honoring personal legacy as an integral part of America n history. \nA book signing will occur after their family history conversa tion.  This program is connected to the exhibit: The Lines We Cross: 250 Years of Maryland Forging America. LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T235458Z URL:https://www.lewismuseum.org/event/international-underground-railroad-m onth-program/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimor e-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Lewis X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.lewismuseum.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CityLit Stage presents Queering Baltimore Lit DTSTART:20260919T183000Z DTEND:20260919T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260825T002942Z UID:14887-1789828200-1789831800@www.citylitproject.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Queering Baltimore Lit\nProduced by fifth wheel press & Mason Jar Press\n \n2:30 pm – 3:30 pm\nCityLit Stage\nEast 31st Street & Barcl ay Street\nBaltimore\, MD 21201 \nBaltimore’s queer and trans artists ar e a huge part of the city’s literary brilliance. Join two Baltimore-base d publishers for a live reading showcasing queer dynamos\, featuring autho rs\, editorial board members\, and contributors to fifth wheel press antho logies and Mason Jar Press‘ Jarnal. Featured readers include writer and drag king Zoe Leonard\, The Workshop Prince and a Kundiman fellow\, who wi ll also serve as the moderator: Alison Lubar\, queer\, biracial Nikkei poe t\, educator and author of two full-length poetry books\, The Other Tree a nd Metamourphosis: T. Mae Moll\, the Lambda Literary Award winner for Out of Step: A Memoir and the executive poetry editor for Mason Jar Press: Fil ipino poet and author of Patrilineal and Prey\, Aldrin Badiola (he/him) wh o is also the editor-in-chief of Artists from Maryland: Ashley Elizabeth ( she/her)\, teacher and a Pushcart-nominated author of the full-length coll ection A Family Thing and four chapbooks\, including red line and CHARM(ed ). Co-produced by Sarah Daniels\, the new publisher and executive director of Mason Jar Press who writes fiction under the pseudonym Persephone King \, and nat raum—editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press and author of origi n trilogy and this book will not save you—this reading highlights some o f Baltimore’s best queer and trans writers who will read work spanning a variety of topics such as LGBTQ+ issues\, family and legacy\, and identit y. \nfifth wheel press is an independent community-focused publisher of ar t and writing by queer\, trans\, and gender variant creators. Mason Jar Pr ess is an independent publisher of fiction\, poetry\, nonfiction\, and lit erary art that mixes it up. They amplify fresh voices and promote bold wor k that pushes the boundaries of literary norms\, and they believe literatu re should not only sustain readers but also inspire their curiosity to exa mine the status quo. \n​Zoe Leonard (he/they) is The Workshop Prince\, a writer and drag king from Phoenix\, Maryland. He is a Kundiman fellow and holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College.​The Workshop Prin ce is a writer and drag king from Baltimore. His work explores the interse ction of poetry and performance.\nzoe-leonard.com\nInstagram: @zoe_leonard .theprince \nAlison Lubar is a queer\, biracial Nikkei poet and educator w ho teaches literature to teenagers\, writing to adults\, and yoga to all a ges. They’re the author of two full-length poetry books\, The Other Tree \, winner of Harbor Editions’ 2023 Laureate Prize\, and Metamourphosis\, as well as four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love\, queer f east\, sweet euphemism\, It Skips a Generation\, and a microchap\, America n Kintsugi. Alison is also a board member for Philadelphia’s Blue Stoop and Contributing Editor for just femme & dandy.\nwww.alisonlubar.com\nInst agram: @theoriginalison\nX: @theoriginalison \nDr. T. Mae Moll is a queer & trans writer & educator in Baltimore. She is the author of Out of Step: A Memoir (Lambda Literary Award) and You Cannot Save Here (Jean Feldman Po etry Prize). Mae’s poetry has also received the Adele V. Holden award fo r creative excellence and the Bill Knott Poetry Prize. She has been a fina list for the Baker Awards\, and her work has been nominated for the Pushca rt Prize and Best of Net. Mae is the executive poetry editor for Mason Jar Press\, and serves on the board of directors for CityLit Project.\ntmaemo ll.com\nInstagram: @tmaemoll \nAldrin Badiola (he/him) is a Filipino poet\ , and the author of Patrilineal and the forthcoming Prey (2028). His works are published in The Hopkins Review\, & Change\, and elsewhere. He is the editor-in-chief of Artists from Maryland.He can be bribed with cheesecake and cowboy boots.\naldrinbadiola.carrd.co\nInstagram: @cyvilizations \nAs hley Elizabeth (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer and teacher whose work has appeared in SWWIM\, Voicemail Poems\, Rigorous\, and Sage Cigaret tes\, among others. Ashley’s debut full-length collection\, A Family Thi ng\, is published by Redacted Books/ELJ Editions (August 2024). She is als o the author of the chapbooks red line (Garden Party Collective\, 2024)\, CHARM(ed) (fifth wheel press\, 2024) black has every right to be angry (Al ternating Current\, 2023) and you were supposed to be a friend (Nightingal e & Sparrow\, 2020). As cofounder of the Estuary Collective\, Ashley striv es to provide free to low-cost programming for femme-identifying BIPOC. Wh en Ashley isn’t teaching\, working as the Chapbook Editor with Sundress Publications\, or coordinating workshops for fifth wheel press\, she habit ually posts on Twitter and Instagram (@ae_thepoet). She lives on the origi nal land of the Piscataway and Susquehannocks (Baltimore\, MD) with her pa rtner and their three cats. Ashley is Black before she is anything else.\n aetheblkpoet.com\nInstagram: @ae_thepoet\nX: @ae_thepoet \nnat raum (they/ them\, b. 1996) is a queer disabled artist and writer based on unceded Pis cataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They hold an MFA from the Uni versity of Baltimore and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. nat is the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press and the author of origin trilogy\, journal of various worries\, this book will not save you\, and m any chapbooks\, full-length collections\, and photography publications. Pa st and upcoming publishers of their work include Poet Lore\, beestung\, Ba ltimore Beat\, Split Lip Magazine\, Poetry Online\, and others.\nnatraum.c om\nfifthwheelpress.com\nInstagram: @gr8earlofhell\nX: @gr8earlofhell \nSa rah Daniels is the publisher and executive director of Mason Jar Press. Sh e is a former newspaper reporter and holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Pu blishing Arts from the University of Baltimore\, where she teaches writing to undergraduates\, high school students\, and the incarcerated. Her fict ion has appeared in the Rappahannock Review and Coffin Bell under her pseu donym Persephone King.\npersephoneking.com\nmasonjarpress.com\nInstagram: @masonjarpress / @persephonekingwriter\nX: @masonjarpress / @king_persepho ne \nVisit the News Section for detailed information. \nSTAY INFORMED LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T002942Z LOCATION:31st Street Stage\, 31st Street & Barclay Street\, Baltimore\, MD \, 21218\, United States URL:https://www.citylitproject.org/event/queering-baltimore-lit/?utm_sourc e=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:CityLit Project X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.citylitproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CityLit Stage presents Find Your Way Home: How We Poet Our Path & Our Past DTSTART:20260919T200000Z DTEND:20260919T214500Z DTSTAMP:20260903T002811Z UID:14891-1789833600-1789839900@www.citylitproject.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Find Your Way Home: How We Poet Our Path & Our Past: A Convers ation & Reading with Chet’la Sebree\, Maui Smith\, Noel Quiñones\, feat uring Denice Frohman. Moderated by DuEwa Frazier\n \n4:00 pm – 5:45 pm\n CityLit Stage\nEast 31st Street & Barclay Street\nBaltimore\, MD 21201 \nH ome can be a journey or a place\, figurative or literal\, an interior sear ch of belonging\, and a destination. Either way\, the word – which we da re not let hold us hostage to any single definition – evokes in each of us\, a sense of longing and becoming\, of territory and consequence. Five poets take us on their singular journeys with a conversation on their new works\, one-woman shows\, poet-written essays\, spoken word\, and delibera te declarations of vulnerability and courage. Anchored by Philly-based poe t Denice Frohman—a poet\, performer\, and former Women of the World Poet ry Slam Champion who is currently touring her one-woman show\, Esto No Tie ne Nombre\, centering the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. Her wor k has appeared in The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext\, Nepantla: An Anthology f or Queer Poets of Color\, and more. Celebrated poet\, essayist\, scholar C het’la Sebree\, in her illuminating work Turn W(here): A Geography of Ho me\, speaks to “perfecting the art of leaving’ and rearranging the def inition of home\, of who we belong to and where. Imani Perry calls it\, “An intimate rendering of the life of a Black woman artist.” Poet Maui Smith’s work has appeared in Club Plum Literary Journal\, The Oyster Ri ver Pages\, Electric Literature\, Equinox Journal\, among others. Called a poet of abundance by Willie Perdomo\, Emmy-award winner Noel Quiñones’ new work Orange\, reads “like in-person\, figurative epiphanies … a p alette’s “thousands of unnamed colors” that cut to the white meat of truth.” Orange\, where every page hums “with the music of what it mea ns to be alive and brown and queer and brilliant in a world that too often forgets to see you whole …  the ache of moving toward a future full of rowdy song\,” writes Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Educator\, award-winning po et\, digital storyteller\, and moderator DuEwa Frazier is the editor of th e Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts\, and author of Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems\, and more. Join us for this sp ecial CityLit Stage presentation with prized poets\, where we allow oursel ves to create dangerously: an enlightening conversation and poetry reading where we push back against the world’s forgetting. \nDenice Frohman is a poet and performer from New York City. She has received support from The Pew Center for the Arts\, Baldwin for the Arts\, CantoMundo\, Headlands C enter for the Arts\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultu res. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Poem-A-Day (The Academy of American Poets)\, The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext\, Nepantla: An Antholo gy for Queer Poets of Color and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poe try Slam Champion\, she has featured on hundreds of stages from The Apollo to The White House. Currently\, she is performing her one-woman show\, Es to No Tiene Nombre\, which centers the oral histories of Latina lesbian el ders.\ndenicefrohman.com\nInstagram: @denicefrohman \nChet’la Sebree is the author of the debut essay collection Turn (W)Here: A Geography Of Home \, “exquisitely observed and multifaceted\,” “an intricate map of on e woman’s search for home … deeply rooted in history\,” writes Lilly Dancyger. Her poetry collection Blue Opening\, longlisted for PEN/Voelcke r Award for Poetry and a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Priz e and the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry\; Field Study\, winner of the James Laughlin Award\; and Mistress\, nominated for an NAACP Image Award and selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the New Issues Poe try Prize. She’s an associate professor at George Washington University and teaches in Randolph College’s MFA in Creative Writing program.\nchet lasebree.com\nInstagram: @cnsebree\nX: @Nahtil \nMaui Smith is a poet from Cleveland\, Ohio. They earned their MFA in Poetry at Hood College and edi ted the inaugural issue of their graduate student literary magazine\, Perg ola. Their work has appeared in Club Plum Literary Journal\, The Oyster Ri ver Pages\, Electric Literature\, Equinox Journal\, and has been anthologi zed in Porch Water Press’ The Water Behind Us: An Anthology for a New Wo rld.\nwww.mauismith.com \nInstagram: @mintmaui \nNoel Quiñones is an Emm y Award-winning writer of all genres\, and the author of Orange. He has be en published in Poetry\, Boston Review\, Poem-a-day\, and The BreakBeat Po ets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT anthology\, as well as the Michigan Quarterly Review\ , in which they won the 2025 Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize. His short story “This Time and the Next” will be included in The Best Short Stories 20 26: The O. Henry Prize Winners. He has also written for\, narrated\, and a cted in several films\, including the Emmy-nominated documentary Takeover\ , recounting the Young Lords’ 1970 takeover of Lincoln Hospital in the B ronx to fight for better healthcare. A graduate of the University of Missi ssippi’s MFA program\, Noel is currently a JFMS Screenwriting Lab Fellow working on their first TV show\, The Telescope.\nwww.noelpquinones.com\nI nstagram: @noelpquinones \nDr. DuEwa Frazier is an award-winning poet\, wr iter\, scholar\, consultant\, digital storyteller\, educator\, and speaker . She is the author or editor of poetry collections\, children’s stories \, scholarly volumes\, and creative nonfiction\, including Alice’s Music al Debut\, Quincy Rules\, Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems\, and more. Her writing has been published by Routledge\, IGI Global\, Essence\, Black Ren aissance Noire\, Tidal Basin Review\, Arlington Literary Journal\, Poetry in Performance\, Drumvoices Revue\, and others. She is the founder/creator of Lit Noire Publishing\, Nerdacity Podcast\, Afrofutures Pod\, Black Sch olars in Podcasting\, and Never Scared Writers & Academics. She has receiv ed fellowships from the Hurston Wright Foundation\, the Martha’s Vineyar d Institute of Creative Writing\, and the Rutgers Center for MSIs. DuEwa e arned an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School and holds several other advanced degrees.\nwww.duewafrazier.com\nInstagram: @duewafrazier\, @blks cholarspodcasting\nX: @duewafrazier1 \nVisit the News Section for detailed information. \nSTAY INFORMED LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T002811Z LOCATION:31st Street Stage\, 31st Street & Barclay Street\, Baltimore\, MD \, 21218\, United States URL:https://www.citylitproject.org/event/find-your-way-home-how-we-poet-ou r-path-our-past/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=balti more-md X-SOURCE-NAME:CityLit Project X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.citylitproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mark Farrington Book Release DTSTART:20260919T230000Z DTEND:20260920T003000Z DTSTAMP:20260913T002742Z UID:10005330-1789844400-1789849800@writer.org CATEGORIES:free,literary DESCRIPTION:The Writer’s Center welcomes writer and longtime Johns Hopki ns professor Mark Farrington for a reading from his new novel LOSS OF LIFE and discussion of fiction techniques with former student and author Miche lle Brafman. \nFREE & open to the public. RSVP below. \n\nMark Farrington recently retired after teaching thirty years in the Johns Hopkins Universi ty MA in Writing Program\, including time spent as director of the program as well as director of the MA in Teaching Writing Program. He has publish ed short fiction in CARVE\, Craft Literary\, The Valparaiso Review\, and o ther journals\, along with various articles on writing and the teaching of writing. Loss of Life is his first novel. After living for three decade s in Alexandria\, Virginia\, following his retirement he and his wife move d to Portland\, Maine. Learn more at markfarrington.net. \nMichelle Brafm an is the author of Washing the Dead\, Bertrand Court\, and Swimming w ith Ghosts\, the companion novel to Draw Near to Me. Her work has appea red in Oprah Daily\, O Quarterly\, Slate\, LitHub\, Tablet\, The Forw ard\, and elsewhere. She’s taught fiction writing in the Johns Hopkins U niversity MA in Writing Program and spoken about her work and the creative process at more than 200 venues\, including book stores\, literary festiv als\, classrooms\, synagogues\, and myriad book groups. Learn more at mi chellebrafman.com. \n\nAbout LOSS OF LIFE\nIn a Virginia hospital\, forty -one-year-old Matthew Winton awakens from a car accident with no memory of his life after the age of thirteen. \nOver time\, he learns that he is a college professor who lives alone and has no family. He is also a writer\, and he turns first to his writing\, hoping it will show him his past. But he has written primarily fiction\, and he struggles to separate the blurr ed lines between fiction and fact. He is helped by a policewoman who inves tigated his accident\, and a relationship develops. Then he comes upon som ething he’d written shortly before the crash. This writing disturbs him greatly and leads to a series of events that end with him traveling to Mas sachusetts\, where he spent the first thirty years of his life\, in search of ghosts from his past. Throughout\, he’s been troubled by questions r aised by the car accident. What was he doing out on a deserted country roa d at two o’clock on a Sunday morning? He had no luggage in the car\, nor anything that might have given a clue to his intentions. Even the policew oman who investigated seems to have questions about whether the crash was really an accident. As Matthew learns more about his past\, he fears that his search might end back on that deserted country road at two a.m. \n\nIf you need an accommodation for this event\, please contact us at access@w riter.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services. \n\nEnjoying our fr ee events? Help us offer more programs to support writers with a $10 dona tion » LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T002742Z LOCATION:The Writer’s Center\, 4508 Walsh Street\, Bethesda\, MD\, 20815 \, United States URL:https://writer.org/event/mark-farrington/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_ medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Book Festival After Dark DTSTART:20260920T000000Z DTEND:20260920T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260910T181842Z UID:10014974-1789848000-1789855200@peabodyheightsbrewery.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T181842Z LOCATION:Peabody Heights Brewery\, 401 East 30th Street\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21218\, United States URL:https://peabodyheightsbrewery.com/event/book-festival-after-dark/?utm_ source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Peabody Heights Brewery X-SOURCE-URL:https://peabodyheightsbrewery.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rental: PRIVATE / Baltimore Read Aloud DTSTART:20260920T130000Z DTEND:20260920T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260915T234034Z UID:3dsp6nsceiph5bc1otit4pbbbs@google.com CATEGORIES:community,literary DESCRIPTION:Author green room for Childrens' Stage guests during the Balti more Book Festival. Sponsored by Baltimore Read Aloud. LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T234034Z LOCATION:29th Street Community Center-1-Classroom - 1st Fl (107) (30) X-SOURCE-NAME:29th Street Public Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://29thstreetcommunitycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Baltimore Book Festival DTSTART:20260920T140000Z DTEND:20260920T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T180142Z UID:10007404-1789898400-1789927200@baltimorecountymoms.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:The Baltimore Book Festival returns to the streets of Waverly this September\, with a two day celebration of books and authors\, brought to you by Baltimore’s bookstores and literary community. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T180142Z LOCATION:Waverly URL:https://baltimorecountymoms.com/event/baltimore-book-festival-2/?utm_s ource=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Baltimore County Moms X-SOURCE-URL:https://baltimorecountymoms.com/2025-farmers-markets END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Louise Marburg and Elizabeth Hazen at the Baltimore Book Festival: FANCY MEETING YOU DTSTART:20260920T150000Z DTEND:20260920T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402402-1789902000-1789905600@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:A conversation about Louise Marburg’s novel FANCY MEETING YO U\, a Baltimore-based “middle-aged coming-of-age”! \n\n\n\n\nWe’re s o excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we are thrill ed to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nKick off your day at the Festival at 11AM with Louise Marburg in conversation with Elizabeth Hazen\, who wi ll be celebrating Louise Marburg’s new novel\, Fancy Meeting You! \nFan cy Meeting You follows Laura in her home in Baltimore and elsewhere throu gh her fiftieth year. Each chapter marks her encounter with a new characte r–a family member or two\, a potential lover\, complete strangers-each o ffering their own brand of wisdom or judgment or wacky opinion. Somehow\, through these entanglements\, Laura begins to gather bits and pieces of th e self-knowledge she is lacking. \nRSVP Here! \nClick here to order Fancy Meeting You! \nLouise Marburg is the author of three collections of sto ries\, the most recent being You Have Reached Your Destination\, which wa s favorably reviewed in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has been published in such journals as Story\, The Hudson Review\, Plough shares\, The Missouri Review\, and many others. Marburg studied design at the Kansas City Art Institute\, is a graduate of New York University’s G allatin Division\, and holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University’ s School of the Arts. She has been a scholar at the Sewanee Writers Confer ence and a fellow at the Kenyon Writing Workshops\, and her work has been supported by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A native of Baltim ore\, she lives in New York City with her husband\, the artist Charles Mar burg. Fancy Meeting You is her first novel. \nElizabeth Hazen is a poet \, essayist\, and teacher. She is currently teaching poetry at Maryland Co rrectional Institution at Jessup through the Goucher College Prison Educat ion Partnership. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry\, Epoch \, American Literary Review\, Smartish Pace\, Shenandoah Literary Magazine \, and other journals. She has published three collections of poetry: Chao s Theories (Alan Squire Publishing\, 2016)\, Girls Like Us (Alan Squire Pu blishing\, 2020)\, and The Sky Will Hold (Riot in Your Throat\, 2026). She lives in Baltimore with her family. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/louise-marburg-and-elizabeth-haze n-at-the-baltimore-book-festival-fancy-meeting-you/?utm_source=caldiscover y&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:P.C. Verrone and Amani Jackson at the Baltimore Book Festival: RAB BIT\, FOX\, TAR DTSTART:20260920T160000Z DTEND:20260920T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402466-1789905600-1789909200@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:A conversation about P.C. Verron’s novel RABBIT\, FOX\, TAR\ , a “mesmerizing\, fable-like debut novel”! \n\n\n\nWe’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nAt 12PM\, join us for an event with P.C. Ver rone in conversation with Amani Jackson\, celebrating P.C. Verrone’s s triking new novel\, Rabbit\, Fox\, Tar! \nLonglisted for The Center for F iction 2026 First Novel Prize\, this is a mesmerizing\, fable-like debut n ovel about a mysterious young Black woman whose arrival in an insular neig hborhood threatens to shake its foundations. We think it should be assigne d reading in schools. \nRSVP Here! \nClick here to order Rabbit\, Fox\, T ar! \nP.C. Verrone‘s work has appeared in FIYAH\, PodCastle\, Nightmar e\, and numerous anthologies. He has been a Tin House Resident\, a Playwri ghts’ Center Fellow\, and a WNDB Black Creatives Revisions Workshop winn er. He graduated from Harvard College and holds an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University–Newark. He lives in Dallas with his husband\, a historian. \nAmani Jackson is the Operations Manager at The Ivy Booksho p in Baltimore\, Maryland. Amani has worked in and with bookstores across the DMV for the past six years. She has also served on the American Bookse ller’s Association’s bookseller advisory committee\, as a judge for th e American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal of Distinction an d as the ABA Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2026 committee chair. She lives in the city with her two cats and mountains of books. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/p-c-verrone-and-amani-jackson-at- the-baltimore-book-festival-rabbit-fox-tar/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_me dium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Writing the Fictionalized Autobiography: Coming-of-Age Stories DTSTART:20260920T170000Z DTEND:20261018T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260913T062818Z UID:10005362-1789909200-1792337400@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:More and more\, popular culture has been fascinated by narrati ves that depict coming of age from the perspective of the child in the for m of memoir\, often demonstrating cultural diversity.\nThis workshop will focus stories drawn from participants’ own life experiences that have ce rtain fictional elements and are structured like fiction. During each week of the course\, we will write short pieces of memoir\, based on the follo wing: certain places and individuals you remember\, certain traditions and even collective traumas that predate the first-person narrator\, certain positive events as well as troubling events\, with the liberty to fictiona lize and embellish the autobiographical story. We will develop a foundatio n for the elements of fiction: plot\, character\, internal monologue\, and dialogue while studying published works in the genre. \n\nLive video conf erence: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing plat form\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before\, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it). \n\nIn this wo rkshop you’ll learn:\n\nThe use of the first person\nThe structure of pl ot\, rising action\, conflict\, partial resolution\, further conflict\, fl ashbacks and chronology\nDialogue\nCharacter development\nConcrete detail\ nHow to use realistic dialogue that advances the story and achieves intend ed coherence or\, conversely\, artistic postmodernist subversion of conven tional coherence\n\nTime requirements\n\n3 hours minimum\n\nMaterials\n\nA ll reading materials will be provided.\n\n\nIf you need an accommodation f or this workshop\, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T062818Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/writing-the-fictionalized-autobiography-comin g-of-age-stories/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=balt imore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lenna Jawdat with Ramsey Hanhan: 70\,000 at the Baltimore Book Fes tival DTSTART:20260920T170000Z DTEND:20260920T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402659-1789909200-1789912800@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:A conversation about Lenna Jawdat’s 70\,000: an “embodied meditation on cultural displacement\, memory\, and resilience.” \n\n\n\n We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you c an visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we a re thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nAt 1PM\, join us for an eve nt with Lenna Jawdat celebrating her powerful new poetry collection 70\ ,000! Palestinian writer and scientist Ramsey Hanhan joins her in convers ation\, and we encourage you to check out his new book\, Palestine Bleeds for You. \n70\,000 is a visceral and inventive poetry collection inspire d by the removal of approximately 70\,000 books from Palestinian homes and private libraries before and during the events of 1948. Of those books\, most have not been returned\; about 6\,000 remain housed in Israeli nation al collections\, where they are largely inaccessible to Palestinians. \nA powerful act of remembrance and resistance\, 70\,000 transforms cultural erasure into an archive of grief\, memory\, and hope. \nClick here to ord er 70\,000! \nRSVP Here! \nLenna Jawdat is a poet\, writer\, and psycho therapist of Palestinian and Iraqi descent. Her work has been published in  Poet Lore\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Margins\, and elsewhere. Sh e was a 2021 Best of the Net nominee\, an artist in residence at Sundress Academy for the Arts (2023) and Vermont Studio Center (2025) and a Tin Hou se alum. Lenna received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in May 2024. Her debut book\, 70\,000\, was selected for Summer/Fall 2026 Indies Introduce and July 2026 Indies Next by the Am erican Booksellers Association. She lives in DC on the ancestral land of t he Anacostan people. \n\n\n\nRamsey Hanhan is a father\, scientist\, and independent author of two books: Palestine Bleeds For You (2026) and the autobiographical Fugitive Dreams (2022). His short stories\, essays\, a nd poetry appear in The Harvard Advocate\, Fikra magazine\, Scene48\,  Mondoweiss and other publications. A former physics professor\, Ramsey li ves near Baltimore\, and speaks on Palestine and literature. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/lenna-jawdat-and-susan-muaddi-dar raj-at-the-baltimore-book-festival-70000-poems/?utm_source=caldiscovery&ut m_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Xerox Revolution: Exploring the Historical Significance and Re surgence of DIY Zines DTSTART:20260920T180000Z DTEND:20260920T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T000433Z UID:31772-1789912800-1789918200@www.mdhumanities.org CATEGORIES:arts,literary DESCRIPTION:Join zine publisher Paul Armentano and University of Maryland archivist and curator John Davis for a panel that explores the historical impact and cultural significance of zines! Panelists will discuss the cruc ial role zines played in promoting communication and awareness among bands and their fans\, and how zine networks laid the foundation for the rise o f underground music scenes\, as well as other subcultures. The modern zine resurgence will also be examined\, and how zines are able to thrive in an era of electronic media. Come and learn about the vibrant world of DIY zi nes – self-published\, underground magazines that bypassed media gatekee pers. LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T000433Z URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org/event/the-xerox-revolution-exploring-the- historical-significance-and-resurgence-of-diy-zines/?utm_source=caldiscove ry&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Maryland Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Haiku\, Tanka\, and Senryu DTSTART:20260920T180000Z DTEND:20261011T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260914T063200Z UID:10005363-1789912800-1791734400@writer.org CATEGORIES:education,literary DESCRIPTION:The goal of this course is to introduce the participant to thr ee Japanese poetic forms: the haiku\, tanka\, and senryu and guide a writi ng practice that includes these forms. Each week the participant will read examples of poetry in one of the Japanese forms and then generate some po ems. By the end of the workshop\, the participant will have generated poem s in the three Japanese forms and feel confident in writing in these forms . \n\nLive video conference: This workshop will be held via our online vi deo conferencing platform\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using t he platform here. On the start date or the day before\, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t se e it). \n\nIf you need an accommodation for this workshop\, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests\, but ad vance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T063200Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/haiku-tanka-and-senryu/?utm_source=caldiscove ry&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Alexandra Elle and Maureen Nicol at the Baltimore Book Festival: T HE COMPANY WE KEEP DTSTART:20260920T190000Z DTEND:20260920T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402825-1789916400-1789920000@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nAt 3PM\, join u s for an event with Alexandra Elle in conversation with Maureen Nicol\, celebrating Alexandra Elle’s new book\, The Company We Keep: Friendshi p\, Connection\, and Redefining What It Means to Grow Together! \nThis eve nt is hosted in partnership with Our House Baltimore\, owned by Maureen Ni col. It’s a vibrant hub where families can enjoy excellent food and coff ee\, engage in meaningful programming\, and connect in a space designed to nurture their whole experience– just down the street from the Book Fest ival. \nThe Company We Keep is a vulnerable exploration of the friendship s that shape us\, stretch us\, and sometimes wound us. With her trademark wisdom and storytelling\, Alex invites us not only to celebrate but to exa mine the relationships in our lives\, and to become a better friend to our selves first. \nClick here to order The Company We Keep! \nRSVP Here! \nA lexandra Elle is a New York Times bestselling author and restorative wri ting teacher. In her work and through her books\, Alex aims to build commu nity and healing practices through language. \nMaureen Nicol is a creativ e director\, digital storyteller\, model\, community maker\, and educator\ , with a doctorate in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College\, Colu mbia University. She is committed to the transformative work of balancing cultural programming initiatives and engagement strategies in unique local es. While seeking community through a restorative wilderness experience\, Maureen observed that few of these spaces are accessible to women of color . She went on to be the founder of Mamas Who Dream\, an organization uniqu ely focused on designing and spearheading wilderness retreats for mothers of color through an economically sustainable and financially equitable mod el. \nMaureen’s through line is creating spaces and places with a focus on caregivers and children of color and Black parenting. Her latest initia tive\, Our House Baltimore\, seeks to transform the notion of a children ’s recreational space into a multigenerational play area with offerings for adults and children alike. \nIg: williethewayfarer \nOurhousebaltimore LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/alexandra-elle-and-maureen-nicol- at-the-baltimore-book-festival-the-company-we-keep/?utm_source=caldiscover y&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Robert Isaacs and J. Wynn Rousuck at The Baltimore Book Festival: IT'S HARD TO BE AN ANIMAL DTSTART:20260920T200000Z DTEND:20260920T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402909-1789920000-1789923600@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nJoin us at 4:00 PM for an event with Robert Isaacs in conversation with J. Wynn Rousuck\ , celebrating Robert Isaacs’ raucous and heart-full new novel\, It’s Hard to Be an Animal! \nFor readers of Shark Heart\, Remarkably Bright Cr eatures and Hollow Kingdom\, this novel follows a lonely\, conflict-aver se man whose sudden ability to understand animals sends him on a wild romp around NYC\, and ultimately helps him discover his own voice. \nClick her e to order It’s Hard to Be an Animal! \nRSVP Here! \nRobert Isaacs ha s survived an eventful life. He has escaped an angry hippo in the Okavango Delta\, dodged tear gas on the Mount of Olives\, roasted marshmallows ove r cooling lava in the Guatemalan highlands\, and been run over by a boat o ff the west coast of Australia. In his youth he supported himself as a jug gler and unicyclist on the streets of San Francisco before turning to musi c\; over the course of thirty years he conducted everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Cook Islands\, released a dozen CDs\, and earned a Grammy nomi nation. It’s Hard to Be an Animal is his first novel. \nJ. Wynn Rousuc k is the award-winning theater critic at WYPR\, 88.1 FM. Prior to that\, s he was the theater critic at The Baltimore Sun for 23 years\, during wh ich she reviewed more than 3\,000 plays. Her acclaimed debut novel\, Pl ease Write: A Novel in Letters\, won the 2024 Best Novel award from the D og Writers Association of America. Her nonfiction has appeared in magazine s ranging from American Theatre to Dog World. She was a faculty member for more than two decades at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Thea ter Center and has also taught writing and theater at Goucher College and in various programs at Johns Hopkins University. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/robert-isaacs-at-the-baltimore-bo ok-festival-its-hard-to-be-an-animal/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=i cs&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:One Maryland One Book Discussion: No Sense in Wishing DTSTART:20260921T180000Z DTEND:20260921T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T000433Z UID:31734-1789999200-1790002800@www.mdhumanities.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of the 2026 One Maryland One Book sel ection No Sense in Wishing: Essays on Black Music\, Belonging\, and Baltim ore by Lawrence Burney. \nNo Sense in Wishing: Essays on Black Music\, Bel onging\, and Baltimore by Lawrence Burney is a personal and analytical ess ay collection that showcases his home city of Baltimore\, music from throu ghout the global Black diaspora\, and the traditions that raised him. Each essay tells stories of his formative moments and cultural artifacts to te ll the story of our region’s cultural scene through his unique point-of- view. As one of our contemporary rising cultural critics\, Burney’s book aptly captures this year’s theme of Revolution\, Reaction\, and Reform. LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T000433Z LOCATION:Enoch Pratt Free Library\, Cherry Hill Branch\, 606 Cherry Hill R oad\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21225\, United States URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org/event/one-maryland-one-book-discussion-no -sense-in-wishing-2/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=b altimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Maryland Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell DTSTART:20260921T220000Z DTEND:20260921T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T181032Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53250436790009 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Read and discuss Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. A thrilling depa rture: a short\, piercing\, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakesp eare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great p lay. England\, 1580. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181032Z LOCATION:Roland Park URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/book-discussion-hamnet-by-magg ie-ofarrell?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore- md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Light Street Writers Exchange - Virtual DTSTART:20260921T220000Z DTEND:20260921T233000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T181032Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52444057098563 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:A read and critique group for writers with interest in all for ms of writing: poetry\, novel\, short story\, creative nonfiction. Writers of any ability are welcome\, as long as there is a desire to accept criti que graciously and improve your craft. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181032Z URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/light-street-writers-exchange- virtual?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Richard Petre with Michael Gibbons: Sudden Death: The Green Bay Pa ckers\, the Baltimore Colts\, and the NFL\, 1965 DTSTART:20260921T220000Z DTEND:20260921T233000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2395224-1790013600-1790019000@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:The day after the Saints play in Baltimore\, come on out to Th e Ivy to discuss the NFL season that was “an exclamation point” in the sport’s golden age. \nWe’re talking about 1965\, the turning point in the war between the establishment NFL and the insurgent AFL– and when m any of the greatest players ever (like Johnny Unitas\, Jim Brown\, Dick Bu tkus and Gale Sayers)\, took the field. \nIn Sudden Death\, Richard Petre tells the story of that season through the historic conference race betwee n Green Bay and Baltimore and played against the backdrop of national unre st and war in Vietnam. \nPetre will join us on the Ivy patio to tell us mo re\, alongside Michael Gibbons\, former executive director of the Babe Rut h Birthplace Museum. \nRSVP here! \nOrder SUDDEN DEATH here! \nRichard Pet re is a retired Louisiana lawyer and the author of a legal handbook. He r emembers kids wanting to be Johnny Unitas and Sandy Koufax\, listening to games on faraway AM radio stations through bursts of static\, and devourin g box scores and tables showing league leaders in morning and evening news papers tossed on front lawns. He turned 13 the day after the historic Dece mber 26\, 1965 Western Conference playoff between the Green Bay Packers an d the Baltimore Colts. This is his tribute to that time. He lives in Mande ville\, Louisiana. \nFrom 1983-2016 Mike served as executive director of the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum. In that capacity he worked to preserve t he legacy of baseball’s greatest star and also to expand the mission of the institution. Under his watch it grew to become the official museum of the Baltimore Orioles\, the official archives of the Baltimore Colts\, as well as representing Maryland Terrapin athletics\, the Baltimore Ravens\, and Marylanders including Michael Phelps\, Carmelo Anthony\, Kimmie Meissn er and Jessical Long. \nIn 2005 Mike opened Sports Legends Museum at Camde n Yards to house the growing collection. \nMike has continued with the mus eum as director emeritus/historian\, working to maintain the collection\, produce new exhibits and coordinate public programming and public relation s. \nMike serves on the boards of the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame \, the Society of American Baseball Research and the Orioles Hall of Fame selection committee. He served as chair of the Greater Baltimore History A lliance in the 90’s and as president of the International Sports Heritag e Association from 2010-2012. \nHe is married has one son\, an Emmy-award winning documentarian. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:The Ivy Bookshop\, Back Patio\, 5928 Falls Road\, Baltimore\, MD\ , 21209 URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/2395224/?utm_source=caldiscovery& utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Edgewood Books at the Center DTSTART:20260922T143000Z DTEND:20260922T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T000433Z UID:31677-1790073000-1790076600@www.mdhumanities.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Participants at least 55 years of age meet at the Edgewood Act ivity Center for a spirited book discussion. Join us to discuss this year ’s One Maryland One Book selection\, “No Sense in Wishing”\, by Lawr ence Burney. Free copies of the 2026 OMOB selection will be available at a ll HCPL locations while supplies last. Please call your favorite branch to check on book availability. One Maryland One Book is a program of Marylan d Humanities. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of M useum and Library Services and the Maryland State Library. Please call the Edgewood Activity Center at 410-612-1622 for more details. LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T000433Z URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org/event/edgewood-books-at-the-center/?utm_s ource=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Maryland Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.mdhumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Contracts and Copyrights for Writers DTSTART:20260922T230000Z DTEND:20260923T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260914T063200Z UID:10005367-1790103600-1790107200@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:What every writer needs to know about the legal netherworld ar ound getting published.\nMost writers understandably cringe at the legal a nd technical jargon of book\, magazine\, or other contracts they need to s ell their work. And copyrights can be downright scary. Ken Ackerman has na vigated these waters often in his long career with multiple books and publ ishers\, with all the related legal twists and turns. In this workshop\, h e’ll give a primer on what writers need to know\, in simple\, understand able terms\, about selling and securing their work. \n\nLive video confere nce: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platfor m\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before\, participants will receive an email with lo gin info (please check your spam if you don’t see it). \n\nIn this works hop you’ll learn:\n\nThe basics of contracts and copyrights\, from the w riter’s point of view.\n\nTime requirements\n\nN/A\n\nMaterials\n\nAll r eading materials will be provided.\n\nWho should take this workshop?\n\nAn y writer hoping to sell their work for pay.\n\n\nIf you need an accommodat ion for this workshop\, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will at tempt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T063200Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/contracts-and-copyrights-for-writers-2/?utm_s ource=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fundamentals of Persuasive Writing DTSTART:20260922T230000Z DTEND:20261014T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260915T063013Z UID:10005366-1790103600-1791927000@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Learn how to change minds\, build support and make the case fo r your viewpoints and goals.\nLearn how to pack a powerful punch when writ ing persuasively! This four-week workshop covers the processes involved in writing persuasively and with confidence\, whether it is crafting newspap er op-eds and speeches or official emails\, memos\, letters and proposals. Everything starts with a core message. Think. Plan. Write. Participants w ill learn the techniques of audience analysis\, message development\, targ eted research\, organization\, using persuasive language and effective use of “AI” in planning/strategizing. This class features hands-on writin g instruction\, engaging discussion and an extensive reading list. \n\nLiv e video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video confe rencing platform\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platfo rm here. On the start date or the day before\, participants will receive a n email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it). \n \nIn this workshop you’ll learn:\n\nHow to Nail Down Your Opinion and St ake Out Your Argument or Ultimate Goal\nHow to Think\, Plan and Write Stra tegically\nHow to Refine and Finalize Your Writing\n\nTime requirements\n\ n1-2 hours weekly\n\nMaterials\n\nAll reading materials will be provided.\ n\nWho should take this workshop?\n\nThis is a great workshop for beginner s and intermediate writers who want to tap into the power of “penning wi th persuasion.”\n\n\nIf you need an accommodation for this workshop\, pl ease contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all reque sts\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility se rvices. LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T063013Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/fundamentals-of-persuasive-writing-3/?utm_sou rce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An Evening with Ann Patchett and R. Eric Thomas: WHISTLER DTSTART:20260922T230000Z DTEND:20260923T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2560178-1790103600-1790107200@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:The Ivy Bookshop is over the moon to be hosting Ann Patchett a nd R. Eric Thomas for a conversation about Ann Patchett’s latest\, WHIST LER! \n\n\n\nWe love the friendship between these two beloved authors\, fi rst cemented in Baltimore in 2023\, and can’t wait to bring them back fo r a reprise. \nWe’re grateful to partner with Church of the Redeemer for the use of their spacious sanctuary space. Doors will open at 6pm. Seatin g will be first come\, first served. \nRSVP Here! \nIf you would like a si gned copy of Whistler by Ann Patchett or Congratulations\, the Best Is Ove r by R. Eric Thomas\, please purchase the ticket option that includes that book. All books will be pre-signed. Additional unsigned copies will be av ailable for sale at the event. \nIf you’re new to Ann Patchett’s work\ , you are sure to be delighted by Whistler. As one of our booksellers like s to say\, “Man\, Ann Patchett can really write a novel!” It’s the s tory of a surprise encounter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the sweet ness and impermanence of life\, and the power of connection to defy time. Oh\, and horses and ghosts. It’s no surprise it became a #1 New York Tim es bestseller. You can read more about the book at this link. \nAnd there ’s no one like R. Eric Thomas writing about how to move through the hard er parts of life with humor\, grace\, and graciousness. In Congratulations \, The Best Is Over!\, Thomas moves back to his perpetually misunderstood hometown of Baltimore (a place he never wanted to return\, even to be buri ed) and behaving completely out of character. Thomas provides the nitty\, and sometimes the gritty\, details of wrestling with the life he thought h e’d left behind while trying to establish a new one. \nWe can’t wait t o see you there. And then to repeat the legendary things said in this conv ersation to each other for the rest of time! \n— \nAnn Patchett is the a uthor of novels\, most recently the #1 New York Timesbestselling Whistler\ , works of nonfiction\, and children’s books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards\, including the PEN/Faulkner\, the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK\, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her novel The Du tch Housewas a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been translat ed into more than thirty languages\, and Time magazine named her one of th e 100 Most Influential People in the World. President Biden awarded her th e National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to America n culture. She lives in Nashville\, Tennessee\, where she is the owner of Parnassus Books. \nR. Eric Thomas (he/him) is a screenwriter\, playwright\ , and the national bestselling author of Here for It\, or How to Save Your Soul in America\, a Read with Jenna pick\, and Congratulations\, the Best Is Over!. He is also the Eric of Asking Eric\, the popular nationally syn dicated daily advice column found in over 100 newspapers\, including the C hicago Tribune\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times. His YA novel deb ut\, Kings of B’more\, was named a 2023 Stonewall Honor book by the Amer ican Library Association. As a screenwriter\, Eric worked on the Peabody A ward-winning series Dickinson (AppleTV+) and Better Things (FX) and is cur rently developing his own projects for film and TV. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Church of the Redeemer\, 5603 N Charles St.\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21 210 URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/an-evening-with-ann-patchett-and- r-eric-thomas-whistler/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaig n=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hot Off the Press: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper DTSTART:20260923T150000Z DTEND:20260923T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T181032Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53259987024418 CATEGORIES:arts,literary DESCRIPTION:Recognized as the “mother of African American journalism\, ” Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote influential 19th-century abolitioni st pieces that shaped debate on race\, gender\, intersectionality and citi zenship. Through her literary work and correspondence in the Black press\, she built a political voice for African Americans—especially women. Her journalism bolstered her far-reaching impact as an activist and traveling orator\; indeed\, few states were left untouched by her courageous voice. \n\n \n\nView published works by Harper along with historic anti-slavery ephemera from the African American Department collection that reflect the powerful context of her work. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181032Z LOCATION:Central Library\, Poe Room URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/hot-off-the-press-frances-elle n-watkins-harper-2560?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign= baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Storied Silvers: Book Discussion DTSTART:20260923T170000Z DTEND:20260923T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T181032Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53435473515209 CATEGORIES:community,literary DESCRIPTION:Do you enjoy discussing your most recent reads with others? Do es it interest you to learn what other people are reading? Would you like to share your favorite authors and learn about new ones?\n\n \n\nCome be a part of the conversation! The Storied Silvers Book Discussion Group meets on the third Wednesday of every month and is the perfect time to discuss a book you’ve read and enjoyed with other like-minded readers. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181032Z LOCATION:Central Library\, Poe Room URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/storied-silvers-book-discussio n-8798?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Teen Book Club: Once Upon a K-prom DTSTART:20260923T190000Z DTEND:20260923T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T181032Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53249914153977 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join us as we go back to school with Kat Cho's K-pop-themed s chool romance.\n\n \n\nOnce Upon a K-Prom introduces readers to two teens who have taken diverging paths: one has become an international star on th e K-pop scene\, and the other is a dedicated volunteer fighting to save he r local community center. They are connected by a childhood promise to go to prom together --even if that means traveling halfway around the world t o do it.\n\n \n\nThis program has limited space\, and pre-registration is required. To register\, please call the Waverly Branch at 410-396-6089 or stop by the Teen Information to register in person. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181032Z LOCATION:Waverly\, Teen Quiet Room URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/teen-book-club-once-upon-a-k-p rom?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Susan Muaddi Darraj DTSTART:20260923T210000Z DTEND:20260923T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T181648Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53427350172748 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Susan Muaddi Darraj\, author of this year's summer read\, Behi nd You is The Sea\, will address her work. She is an award-winning writer of books for adults and children. She won an American Book Award\, two Ara b American Book Awards\, and a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Art ists Award. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181648Z LOCATION:Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum URL:https://events.goucher.edu/event/copy-of-susan-muaddi-darraj?utm_sourc e=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Events Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.goucher.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Banner Book Club September Meeting: Featuring Maeve Dunigan\, Author of Read This To Look Cool DTSTART:20260923T220000Z DTEND:20260923T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2682946-1790186400-1790190000@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join The Banner Book Club for an in-person book club meeting\, featuring Maeve Dunigan\, Author of Read This To Look Cool!\nMaeve Duniga n has poured a lifetime of effort into seeming effortlessly chill. The res ults have been … mixed. Nonetheless\, Maeve still believes she’s one p air of leather pants\, one perfect use of the word “bespoke\,” and one jar of expensive olives away from self-actualization. She’ll never stop trying\, no matter how bespoke things get (was that right?). \nWith sharp wit and unflinching honesty\, Maeve shares her own misadventures―like t he time she quietly endured a ruptured appendix at McDonald’s so she wou ldn’t come off as dramatic―and explores the universal desire to belong . She invites readers into her world of One Direction fanfiction authorshi p and passive-aggressive yogurt mind games\, detailing the anxieties that come with living in an age of constant visibility. \n“This book taught m e three things: One\, I’m not cool. Two\, I don’t need to be. Three\, Maeve is very funny. And four\, I can’t count.” – Eli Grober\, The N ew Yorker contributor and author of This Won’t Help \n\n\n\n\nThe author will be with us in person to share insights and reflections on her work. The event is free with limited seating\, and hosted at Spark Public Space\ , The Power Plant\, 4th Floor\, 612 E. Pratt Street\, Baltimore\, MD 21202 .\nRSVP here! \nBy registering with your name and email\, you’ll receive advance notice of the book review date\, ensuring you don’t miss this e ngaging discussion. The Banner Book Club is your chance to connect with fe llow readers\, explore Baltimore’s literary heritage\, and engage with t he trusted journalism that drives positive change in Maryland. \n\n\nUse c ode BANNERBOOKCLUB for 10% off your book club purchase at this link.\n\n\ n\nAbout the Author\nMaeve Dunigan\, originally from Baltimore\, MD\, is a writer\, comedian\, and frequent contributor to The New Yorker. Her work has appeared on NPR’s Selected Shorts\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\ , Reductress\, Mic\, and Mountain Gazette.\n\nAbout the Moderator\nCayla H arris is the obituary writer for The Baltimore Banner. Before coming to Ba ltimore\, she spent four years in Austin\, Texas\, covering state politics for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. She also previous ly covered New York politics for the Albany Times Union. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Spark Public Space\, The Power Plant\, 4th Floor\, 621 E. Pratt S t.\, Baltimore\, Maryland\, 21202 URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/the-banner-book-club-september-me eting-featuring-maeve-dunigan-author-of-read-this-to-look-cool/?utm_source =caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Grandmaster Flash: "Birth of a Culture" DTSTART:20260923T230000Z DTEND:20260924T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260807T181342Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53241318109103 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:**THIS PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT** \n\n \n\nStep into the vibrant st reets of the 1970s Bronx and witness the exact moment a global movement be gan. Birth of a Culture gives you a front-row seat to the origins of hip-h op\, told through the firsthand experiences of Grandmaster Flash—one of the founding pioneers who helped build the culture from the ground up.\n\n \n\nWhen you read this book\, you feel the pulse of the neighborhood park s\, hear the scratch of the vinyl\, and experience the raw energy of a com munity turning its daily struggles into a revolutionary art form. This is not just a collection of dates and facts. It is a deeply personal narrativ e written by Grandmaster Flash and coauthor Robert “Scoop” Jackson tha t brings you into the rooms and onto the streets where music changed forev er.\n\n\nThis book cuts through the myths to deliver an authentic\, chrono logical history—bringing you alongside Grandmaster Flash as he invents t he groundbreaking Quik Mix Theory and helps transform a landscape of socia l unrest into a global movement. With turntables and microphones\, the you ng innovator sparked a cultural explosion that quickly swept the world.\n\ n \n\nMore than a timeline of musical milestones\, this Birth of a Culture explores the profound power of community\, resilience\, and unapologetic creativity. The challenges and triumphs detailed within these pages mirror the social issues we still face\, proving that music remains our most vit al tool for connection and change.\n\n \n\nWhether you are a lifelong hip- hop fan\, a dedicated music historian\, or simply someone who loves powerf ul stories of cultural triumph\, this book belongs on your shelf. Once you ’ve read Birth of a Culture\, you can say you know the undeniable heartb eat of hip-hop's true origins.\n\n \n\nGrandmaster Flash will be joined in conversation by Karsonya Wise Whitehead\, host of Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA 88.9 FM.\n\n \n\nAbout the Author: \n\nGrandmaster Flash\, born Josep h Saddler on January 1\, 1957\, is recognized as one of Hip Hop’s archit ects and builders of the culture\, the first DJ to make the turntable a mu sical instrument by the way of his Quik Mix Theory formula and homed devic es. Grandmaster Flash’s technical innovations and artistic contributions have earned him numerous accolades. His impact on the music industry exte nds beyond his own successful career\, as his innovative formula and sound s were translated to sound producing technologies and have inspired genera tions of DJs\, producers and hip-hop artists to push the boundaries of cre ativity.\n\n \n\nAbout the Moderator: \n\nKarsonya Wise Whitehead is the h ost of Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA 88.9 FM. She is the founding director of The Karson Institute for Race\, Peace & Social Justice\, as well as a communication and African and African American Studies professor at Loyola University. \n\n \n\nAbout the Program: \n\nDoors will open to register ed attendees at 6 pm. Seating for registered attendees in Central Hall is first come\, first served. All registered in-person attendees will receive a free copy of the book while supplies last. There will not be a book si gning following the program. Free parking vouchers are available to progra m attendees who park at the Franklin Street Garage (15 W. Franklin Street) after 4pm. Ask Pratt event staff for your parking voucher prior to or af ter the program. All bags\, backpacks\, briefcases\, etc. entering and exi ting the library will be subject to inspection by security personnel. No l arge bags.This is a seated event with spaces reserved for individuals with accessibility needs. ASL interpretation will also be available for attend ees throughout the event. If you need additional accommodations to success fully participate\, please let us know at events@prattlibrary.org or 443-7 68-0762. LAST-MODIFIED:20260807T181342Z LOCATION:Central Library\, Central Hall URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/grandmaster-flash-birth-of-a-c ulture?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Enoch Pratt Free Library Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Your Writing Journey Begins With Your Journey DTSTART:20260923T230000Z DTEND:20260924T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T183311Z UID:10005369-1790190000-1790197200@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:You have a story inside you\, now learn how to bring it to the world.\nWith so many crazy things going on today\, should you even think about writing your story? Come to this interactive zoom workshop and take the first steps in learning how to bring your writing into the world. Come prepared to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. \n\nLive video confe rence: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platf orm\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On t he start date or the day before\, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it). \n\nIn this wor kshop you’ll learn:\n\nWho can write a story\nWhat kinds of stories you can write\nHow to set up your writing environment\nWhere to get help\nWhy now is the best time to write\n\nTime requirements\n\nN/A\n\nMaterials\n\n All reading materials will be provided.\n\nWho should take this workshop?\ n\nThis workshop is for those who have been thinking about writing but hav en’t figured out how to start.\n\n\nIf you need an accommodation for thi s workshop\, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fu lfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some a ccessibility services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T183311Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/your-writing-journey-begins-with-your-journey /?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Extreme Novelist DTSTART:20260923T230000Z DTEND:20260924T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T063544Z UID:10005368-1790190000-1794432600@writer.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Discover how to write your novel no matter how busy your life feels.\nCan’t find the time/energy/inspiration to get your novel written ? This popular course\, developed by the author of the book by the same na me\, will help you complete a rough draft in record time. During the 8 wee ks of the course\, students will receive encouraging guidance from profess ional writing coach Kathryn Johnson. Each author will commit to an aggress ive writing schedule and learn the tricks pros use to create a productive working environment and meet their deadlines\, despite life’s distractio ns. Each class will include accountability and progress reports from each student\, live troubleshooting discussions\, a brief lecture on a key skil l of fiction writing\, and the opportunity to submit a portion of the stud ents’ works-in-progress to the instructor for individual feedback and gu idance. (Note: This is not a work-shopping course. Further information wil l be sent to registered students\, in advance of the first class.) \n\nLiv e video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video confe rencing platform\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platfo rm here. On the start date or the day before\, participants will receive a n email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it). \n \nIn this workshop you’ll learn:\n\nTime Management\nStructure Concepts\ nPacing\nDeveloping writing stamina\nPlot Development\n\nTime requirements \n\nStudents will be expected to write every day\, eventually working towa rd 90 minutes with the instructor’s guidance.\n\nMaterials\n\nAll readin g materials will be provided.\n\nWho should take this workshop?\n\nNovelis ts wishing to break writer’s block\, master fiction techniques\, learn t ime management techniques for authors\, and work toward commercial publica tion of their novels.\n\n\nIf you need an accommodation for this workshop\ , please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all r equests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibilit y services. LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T063544Z LOCATION:Zoom URL:https://writer.org/event/the-extreme-novelist-7/?utm_source=caldiscove ry&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://writer.org/event/beth-konkoski END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR