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KWELI INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

Kweli International Literary Festival 2020 has been reimagined as a 10 week VIRTUAL festival to mark Kweli’s 10 year anniversary. Edwidge Danticat and Nikky Finney will be our keynote speakers, and the readings, conversations, master classes, and workshops will span from July 16th through September 17th.

Kweli International Literary Festival Reading and Conversation series

Kweli International Literary Festival Master Classes

Kweli International Literary Festival Scholarship Application

Frequently Asked Questions

Short Fiction

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Edwidge Danticat

Susan Muaddi Darraj

Danielle Evans

Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Kelli Jo Ford

Akil Kumarasamy

Ivelisse Rodriguez

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Chika Unigwe

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Novel

Brit Bennett

K-Ming Chang

Christina Chiu

Angie Cruz

Edwidge Danticat

Danielle Evans

Lauren Francis-Sharma

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Jakob Guanzon

Zakiya Dalila Harris

Rajia Hassib

Brandon Hobson

Jean Kyoung Frazier

Laila Lalami

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Raven Leilani

Valeria Luiselli

Megha Majumdar

Wayétu Moore

Sahar Mustafah

E.C. Osondu

Chika Unigwe

David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Crystal Wilkinson

Erika T. Wurth

Brian Young

Nonfiction

Mikael Awake

Nicole Chung

Jaquira Díaz

Eve L. Ewing

Laila Lalami

T Kira Mahealani Madden

Wayétu Moore

Enuma Okoro

Nadia Owusu

Imani Perry

Krystal Sital

Poetry

Joshua Bennett

Eve L. Ewing

Nikky Finney

Aracelis Girmay

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Willie Perdomo

Vincent Toro

Agents, Editors & Marketing Professionals

Caroline Bleeke

Michelle Brower

Milena Brown

Johanna V. Castillo

Camille A. Collins

Stephanie Delman

Imani Gary

Amara Hoshijo

Renée Jarvis

Chelcee Johns

Meredith Kaffel Simonoff

Iwalani Kim

Jade Wong-Baxter

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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