About this Event
IN-PERSON
The celebrates authors of African descent and champions literacy and books across genres to amplify Black history and culture. Festival programming features some of the most talented writers and influential figures in culture today. The festival is built on the foundation created by Arturo Schomburg–encouraging freedom of thought, the relentless pursuit of Black history, and the engagement of our imagination towards our collective freedom.
The inaugural festival, founded in 2019 as an in-person event, has been virtual for the last two years. 2022 marks its fourth year and will reconvene communities of book lovers to interact with their favorite authors in Harlem, USA. The festival hosts a marketplace of local organizations and vendors, NYPL mobile library, and programs for all ages.
Readings, panel discussions, and workshops at the event range from prose to poetry, comic books to young adult novels, fiction and nonfiction.
LOCATION
The festival will take place in Schomburg’s landmark building at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, as well as outdoors on 135th Street between Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevards, on stage named after Adam Clayton Powell and Zora Neale Hurston..
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
PUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER By registering for this event, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending an in-person program at The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold The New York Public Library, its Trustees, officers, agent and employees liable for any illness or injury. If you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19 or suspect you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive, please stay home.
Artwork: Cropped, "Take A Look...The World is Yours", 2019 by Jennifer Mack-Watkins
Photo: 2019 Schomburg Center Literary Festival, author book signing; Isseu Diouf/Schomburg Center
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
The literary festival schedule will be announced on May 17, 2022. Check back here and on our website at .
Readings, panel discussions, and workshops at the event range from prose to poetry, comic books to young adult novels, fiction and nonfiction. Past participants have included Sonia Sanchez, Akwaeke Emezi, Roxane Gay, Walter Mosley, Kiese Laymon, Ishion Hutchinson, Vashti Harrison, Ben Okri, T'ai Freedom Ford, Hanif Abdurraqib, Bernardine Evaristo, Brittney Cooper, Glory Edim (Well-Read Black Girl), Saidiya Hartman, Michael Twitty, Tracy K. Smith, Clint Smith, Mahogany L. Browne, to name a few. Together, they represent narratives across cultures, identities, and geography; hailing from cities in the United States, Africa, the UK, and Europe.
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AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library.
PRESS Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at [email protected].
Please note that professional video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, United States
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