2024 KWELI INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

We couldn’t be more excited to share that the 2024 Kweli International Literary Festival will be held from July 13 - September 13.

The hybrid festival will feature virtual and in-person readings and conversations with debut and award-winning BIPOC writers, master classes, craft talks, and much more, as well as the year’s best opportunity to connect with agents, editors, and fellow creatives of color at our in-person Festival Inaugural Weekend. Read on to see part of our incredible lineup this year!

Festival Inaugural Weekend will be held on SATURDAY, JULY 13 - SUNDAY, JULY 14, in-person at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City.

The full-day program will include Edwidge Danticat (National Book Award Finalist), Crystal Wilkinson (NAACP Image Award recipient), DéLana R. A. Dameron (South Carolina Poetry Book Prize) and Susan Muaddi Darraj (American Book Award Winner) along with other highly acclaimed writers, as well as groundbreaking debut authors ready to share their publishing journeys with emerging writers of color.

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

 
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