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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

NoViolet Bulawayo

Jennine Capó Crucet

K-Ming Chang

Youmna Chlala

Danielle Evans

Kelli Jo Ford

Estella Gonzalez

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Angela Jackson-Brown

Yiyun Li

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

Dinaw Mengestu

Celeste Mohammed

Dantiel W. Moniz

Cleyvis Natera

E.C. Osondu

Ingrid Persaud

Larissa Pham

Ivelisse Rodriguez

Asali Solomon

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Crystal Wilkinson

Tiphanie Yanique

Novel

Graham Akhurst

Hala Alyan

Mateo Askaripour

NoViolet Bulawayo

Jennine Capó Crucet

K-Ming Chang

Naima Coster

Safia Elhillo

Anjali Enjeti

Kelli Jo Ford

Gabriela Garcia

Xochitl Gonzalez

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Zakiya Dalila Harris

Brandon Hobson

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Zeyn Joukhadar

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

Dinaw Mengestu

Celeste Mohammed

Cleyvis Natera

Eric Nguyen

Tracy O'Neill

E.C. Osondu

Ingrid Persaud

Asali Solomon

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Tony Tulathimutte

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Mukoma Wa Ngugi

David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Crystal Wilkinson

Tiphanie Yanique

Brian Young

Nonfiction

NoViolet Bulawayo

Cinelle Barnes

Jennine Capó Crucet

Jaquira Díaz

Anjali Enjeti

Danielle Geller

Xochitl Gonzalez

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Angela Jackson-Brown

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

Dinaw Mengestu

Rajiv Mohabir

Nadia Owusu

Larissa Pham

Anna Qu

Ly Tran

Suchitra Vijayan

Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Elissa Washuta

Crystal Wilkinson

Poetry

Hala Alyan

K-Ming Chang

Youmna Chlala

Carolina Ebeid

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Safia Elhillo

Kelly Norman Ellis

Estella Gonzalez

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Angela Jackson-Brown

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Meher Manda

Claire Meuschke

Rajiv Mohabir

Cynthia Dewi Oka

Craig Santos Perez

Jake Skeets

Vincent Toro

Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Crystal Wilkinson

Jane Wong

Tiphanie Yanique

Agents, Editors & Marketing Professionals

Pilar Garcia-Brown

Renée Jarvis

Iwalani Kim

Seema Mahanian

Jade Wong-Baxter

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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