Conference Schedule

Complete Schedule Coming soon!!!

Get ready for an unforgettable experience at this year’s conference! While you’re eagerly counting down the days, we’re thrilled to introduce our incredible lineup of speakers and panelists who are set to make this year our best one yet. Dive into the list below and see who will be inspiring, empowering, and transforming the event just for you!

Panels & Workshops

Trinity: Writing the Multi-generational Fiction Novel

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There Is A Place For Us: Building Community Amidst A White Literary Landscape

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Do Not Make Grief Your God

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Is My Play Ready For the Stage?

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Making Art Your Career: Does Work Life Balance Exist without Burnout?

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Pen, Performance, and Prophecy:  Literary Expression Along an AfroCarolina Continuum

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Communing with Nature & Strategies to Stay Present

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Healing Our Wounds: How to Approach Identity, Trauma, and Grief on the Page

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Publishing Paid Me 101: Demystifying The Publishing Industry, Agents, and Submissions 

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Freelancing While Black: Pitching Black Stories and Landing the Deal

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Octavia Taught Me: Lessons from O. Butler on Creative Practice

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From the Page to the Stage

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 “Shelter in a Poem” Line Breath and the Word

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Writing the Land: Poetics of Place, Agriculture, Black Foodways & Home

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“How do you say that word?”: Choreopoem Workshop for the Culture

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Finding the Middle Grade Story in All of Us: Crafting Stories w/Fantasy & Wonder

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Taste. Touch. Travel: Food and Travel Writing 101- Using the 5 Senses to Enhance Your Non-fiction

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 CRAFT: CHARACTERS — CREATIVE VS. CUNNING

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Writing the “I,” Giving our Poems Identity and Emotional Image

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Writing Your Multigenerational Novel

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Chant Down, Babylon: Poetry as Insurgent Incantation

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Panelists, Speakers & Workshop Facilitators:

Poetry

Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry

Fiction

Stage

Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction

Guest Panelist

Guest Panelist
Guest Panelist
Guest Panelist
Guest Panelist
Guest Panelist