KWELI INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES

PROGRAM SCHEDULE
All events are free and open to the public. Times are EST.

July 16, 2020
7:30pm
Fever Pitch: The Bidding War to Publish Debut Novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/the-bidding-war-to

July 18, 2020
5:00pm
Nikky Finney on Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry with Crystal Wilkinson
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/nikky-finney-on-love

July 20, 2020 RESCHEDULED to 7/28
7:00pm
Brit Bennett on The Vanishing Half with Imani Perry
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/brit-bennett-on-the

July 21, 2020
7:00pm
Kelli Jo Ford on Crooked Hallelujah with Erika T. Wurth
Contemporary Native American fiction
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/kelli-jo-ford-on-crooked

July 23, 2020
7:00pm
Megha Majumdar on A Burning with Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/megha-majumdar-on-a

July 27, 2020
7:00pm
Lauren Francis-Sharma on Book of the Little Axe with Krystal Sital
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/lauren-francis-sharma-on-2

July 28, 2020
7:00pm
Brit Bennett on The Vanishing Half with Imani Perry II
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/brit-bennett-on-the-2

July 29, 2020
7:00pm
From Border to Center: Marketing & Publicizing BIPOC Stories
with Milena Brown, Camille Collins & Imani Gary
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/from-border-to-center

July 30, 2020
7:30pm
Getting Dusmic: The Nuyorican Poetic Tradition
Vincent Toro on Tertulia with Willie Perdomo
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/getting-dusmic-the

August 3, 2020
7:00pm
Kirstin Valdez Quade on The Five Wounds (Novel) with Akil Kumarasamy
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/kirstin-valdez-quade-on

August 4, 2020 RESCHEDULED to 8/18
7:00pm
Wayétu Moore on The Dragons, The Giant, the Women with Enuma Okoro
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/waytu-moore-on-the

August 6, 2020
7:00pm
Raven Leilani on Luster with Kaitlyn Greenidge
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/raven-leilani-on-luster

August 10, 2020
7:00pm
Nadia Owusu on Aftershocks: A Memoir with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/nadia-owusu-on

August 11, 2020
7:00pm
Rajia Hassib on A Pure Heart with Susan Muaddi Darraj
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/rajia-hassib-on-a-pure

August 13, 2020
7:00pm
What Agents and Editors Look For?
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/publishing-two-editors

August 17, 2020
7:00pm
Christina Chiu on Beauty with Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/christina-chiu-on-beauty

August 18, 2020
7:00pm
Wayétu Moore on The Dragons, The Giant, the Women with Enuma Okoro II
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/waytu-moore-on-the-2

August 19, 2020
7:00pm
Brandon Hobson on Where the Dead Sit Talking with Brian Young
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/brandon-hobson-on-where

August 20, 2020
Chika Unigwe on Better Never Than Late with E.C. Osondu
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/chika-unigwe-on-better

August 24, 2020
7:00pm
Sahar Mustafah on The Beauty of Your Face with Susan Muaddi Darraj
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/sahar-mustafah-on-the

August 26, 2020
7:00pm
David Heska Wanbli Weiden on Winter Counts with Brandon Hobson
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/davidheska-wanbli-weiden

August 27, 2020
7:30pm
Jakob Guanzon on Abundance with Jean Kyoung Frazier
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/jakob-guanzon-on

August 31, 2020
7:00pm
Angie Cruz on Dominicana with Ivelisse Rodriguez II
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/angie-cruz-on-dominicana

September 1, 2020
7:00pm
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on The Age of Phillis with Eve L. Ewing
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/honore-fanonne-jeffers

September 3, 2020
7:00pm
Valeria Luiselli on Lost Children Archive with Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/valeria-luiselli-on-lost

September 10, 2020
7:00pm
Secrets and Truths: K-Ming Chang on Bestiary with T Kira Madden
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/secrets-and-truths-k

September 14, 2020
7:00pm
Laila Lalami on Conditional Citizens with Edwidge Danticat
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/laila-lalami-on

September 15, 2020
7:00pm
Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam on Punching the Air with Joshua Bennett
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ibi-zoboi-and-yusef

September 16, 2020
7:00pm
Joshua Bennett on Owed with Vincent Toro
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/joshua-bennett-on-owed

September 17th, 2020
Edwidge Danticat Closing Keynote
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/edwidge-danticat-closing

Kweli International Literary Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.