2024 Kweli International Literary Festival

We're thrilled to announce that REGISTRATION IS OPEN for the 2024 Kweli International Literary Festival! The nation’s foremost literary festival exclusively for BIPOC writers, #KweliLitFest24 will be held July 13th through September 13th and will feature readings and conversations, craft talks and master classes with award-winning BIPOC authors, including Edwidge Danticat, Jaquira Diaz, Megha Majumdar, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Tyriek White, and Crystal Wilkinson.

Our festival's opening weekend will be held on SATURDAY, JULY 13 - SUNDAY, JULY 14, in-person at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. Opening Weekend includes readings, master classes and craft conversations with acclaimed authors, and panel discussions with agents and editors. There is limited capacity for Opening Weekend, so sign up now to reserve your spot. Additional master classes and craft talks will be held virtually after opening weekend. Your Opening Weekend ticket gives you free access to same.

The program runs in three tracks:

TRACK A: For a Heroic Writers Movement— Publishing, Community & Culture

TRACK B: A Slow Walk of Trees— Novels & Screenwriting

TRACK C: The Site of Memory— Memoir & Short Stories

Please note: this event is exclusively for those who identify as writers and illustrators of color--that is, Black, Indigenous, other people of color (BIPOC).

COVER ART: PORTRAIT WITH EYES by ALEFES SILVA.

AUTHORS

Kenzie Allen (Author, Cloud Missives)

Jaha Nailah Avery (Author, Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories From the Jim Crow South)

Mikael Awake (Author, Playground Moves)

Fadi Azzam (Author, Huddud's House)

Brea Baker (Author, Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership)

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond (Author, My Parents' Marriage: A Novel)

Rio Cortez (Author, Golden Ax)

DéLana R. A. Dameron (Author, Redwood Court)

Edwidge Danticat (Author, We're Alone: Essays)

Susan Muaddi Darraj (Author, Behind You is the Sea)

Yohanca Delgado (Contributing Author, The Best American Short Stories 2022)

Jaquira Diaz (Author, I Am Deliberate)

Hannah Giorgis (Staff Writer, The Atlantic)

Kaitlyn Greenidge (Author, Libertie)

Alejandro Heredia (Author, Loca)

JP Infante (Author, On the Tip of Your Mother's Tongue)

Crystal Hana Kim (Author, The Stone Home)

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé (Author, The Road to the Salt Sea)

Megha Majumdar (Author, A Burning)

Ayana Mathis (Author, The Unsettled)

Tracie Morris (Author, Human/Nature Poems)

Emily Raboteau (Author, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against 'the Apocalypse')

Vincent Toro (Author, Hivestruck)

Renée Watson (Author, Skin & Bones)

Tyriek White (Author, We Are a Haunting)

Crystal Wilkinson (Author, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts)

EDITORS & AGENTS

Amina Iro (Associate Editor, Legacy Lit)

Renée Jarvis (Agent, Triangle House Literary)

Kima Jones (Agent, Triangle House Literary)

Iwalani Kim (Associate Agent, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates)

Amanda Orozco (Literary Agent, Translantic Agency)

Meredith Simonoff (Agent, The Gernert Company)

Delia Selina Taylor (Editor, Riverhead Books)

Host or Publisher Kweli Journal