KWELI INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Times are EST.

9:00am | Check-in

9:45am | Welcome by Laura Pegram

10:00am | Keynote Conversation: To Decolonize the Archives

Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

Moderator: Laura Pegram

11:00am | Kweli Alum on Craft and Community

Daphne Palasi Andreades, Brown Girls

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, A Woman of Endurance

Cleyvis Natera, Neruda on the Park

Christine Kandic Torres, The Girls in Queens

Moderator: Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks, A Memoir

12:00pm | Lunch/ Pitch Sessions / Book Sale and Signing

1:00pm | On Longing and Desire

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Big Girl: A Novel

Moderator: Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy

2:00pm | What Do Agents and Editors Look For?

Caroline Bleeke, Executive Editor at Flatiron Books

Renée Jarvis, Agent at Triangle House Literary

Roma Panganiban, Agent at Janklow & Nesbit

Marie Pantojan, Editor at Random House

Moderator: Iwalani Kim, Agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates

3:00pm | Archive and Art

Tanaïs, In Sensorium, Notes for my People

Moderator: Hannah Bae

4:00pm | On Muslim Girlhood

Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die

Moderator: Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks, A Memoir

5:00pm | Prose and Poetry

Nikky Finney, Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts

Moderator: Tyehimba Jess, Oilio

6:00pm | Closing / Book Sale and Signing