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CityLit Festival Readings and Panels You Won’t Want to Miss This Weekend

3 weeks ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Kerry Folan

Need to shake up your TBR list? (“To be read,” for those detached from the bibliophile world.)The 22nd annual CityLit Festival will convene more than 60 writers at the Lord Baltimore Hotel on Saturday, April 5, for a full day of free readings, writing workshops, and panel discussions. Later this month, on Friday, April 21, a day of poetry-focused programs will culminate in a celebratory finale at Red Emma’s in Waverly. Both events are intended to send you home with a brand new book crush.
Author Carole Boston Weatherford is Reclaiming Maryland History

4 weeks ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Kerry Folan

Baltimore native Carole Boston Weatherford has written more than 90 books for young readers, garnering two NAACP Image Awards and 18 American Library Association Youth Media Awards, among many other accolades along the way. But her 2023 novel-in-verse, Kin: Rooted in Hope, is by far her most personal work.
‘Oh Happy Day!’ Is a Lively Noah’s Ark Retelling That Refuses to Pander

Oct 15, 2024 | baltimoremagazine.com | Kerry Folan

After a receiving rave reviews from audiences, Baltimore Center Stage’s Oh Happy Day! is getting an extended run through Oct. 20.I’ve attended twice now—both performances received standing ovations—and it’s the most urgent theater production I’ve seen in years. Oh Happy Day! is the latest collaboration between playwright-actor Jordan E.
A Provocative New Frederick Douglass Portrait Is Unveiled at the Lewis Museum

Oct 2, 2024 | baltimoremagazine.com | Kerry Folan

Take a drive down President Street this week and you’ll notice a new banner of Frederick Douglass gracing the side of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum—but this is a Douglass you likely haven’t seen before.
Shore Lit October Notes and Musings by Kerry Folan

Oct 3, 2023 | talbotspy.org | Kerry Folan

In 2019, CJ Hauser’s Paris Review essay about calling off their wedding went about as viral as a literary essay can possibly go. Though Hauser had been primarily a fiction writer, the essay’s success resulted in a nonfiction book deal, and, happily, we now have the brilliant memoir-in-essays The Crane Wife. I love and admire this collection.
Shore Lit September Notes and Musings by Kerry Folan

Sep 4, 2023 | talbotspy.org | Kerry Folan

Since its release in June, Tania James’s novel Loot has been at the top of “must read” lists everywhere, from NPR to O, The Oprah Magazine to the New York Times. Though generally classified as historical fiction, the novel is also a coming-of-age tale and a love story:Seventeen-year-old Abbas is conscripted to help build a life-sized mechanical tiger for Sultan Tipu.
Q&A with Shore Lit Visiting Writer Tania James

Sep 2, 2023 | talbotspy.org | Kerry Folan

Tania James’s fourth book is a spellbinding coming-of-age tale. Abbas is just 17 when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan and he is commanded to help build a life-sized mechanical tiger. But when it is stolen by British forces looting the palace, his fate becomes entwined with the wooden tiger he helped create, mirroring the vicissitudes of colonialism across countries, people, and decades.
Shore Lit August Notes and Musings by Kerry Folan

Aug 3, 2023 | talbotspy.org | Kerry Folan

What a year it’s been! Since last summer, we’ve hosted 7 book talks, 3 book-club discussions, and 1 pop-up bookshop—all free and open to the public. We’ve met hundreds of new neighbors. We’ve stayed up late eating pizza and drinking beer with our visiting writers, many of whom had never been on the Shore, and all of whom told me how impressed they were with our incredible community.
Arts Portal Lead - Chestertown Spy

Jun 4, 2023 | chestertownspy.org | Kerry Folan
Shore Lit June Notes and Musings by Kerry Folan

Jun 3, 2023 | cambridgespy.org | Kerry Folan