KWELI INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

Kweli International Literary Festival 2021 is a 10-week ONLINE literary arts festival. Award-winning authors Kaitlyn Greenidge and Tiphanie Yanique will be our opening and closing keynote speakers, respectively. Readings, conversations, craft talks, writing workshops and master classes with authors Hala Alyan, NoViolet Bulawayo, Yiyun Li, Dinaw Mengestu, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Jake Skeets, Crystal Wilkinson and others will run from July 15th through September 16th.

Kweli International Literary Festival Reading and Conversation series

Kweli International Literary Festival Master Classes and Workshops

Kweli International Literary Festival Scholarship Application

Frequently Asked Questions

 

Short Fiction

Novel

Nonfiction

Poetry

Agents, Editors & Marketing Professionals


Click here for the 2020 Kweli International Literary Festival.

Click here for the 2019 Kweli International Literary Festival.


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.

Kweli is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported by readers like you and by grants from organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, Amazon Literary Partnership and the Whiting Foundation.

Kweli Journal is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 
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