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CityLit Festival 2023: Lifting As We Climb
One-on-One Editorial Critique Sessions
Saturday, March 25, 2023
10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
1212 Cathedral St
Baltimore, MD 21201
Tickets are $10 and limited. The event is open to all. Registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive further instructions for choosing your slot and sending in your piece.
Bret McCabe (Creative Nonfiction)
Bret McCabe has been an arts and culture reporter, critic, and a freelance features writer and editor over the past 20 years. His work has appeared in the Baltimore City Paper, Dallas Observer, BmoreArt, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, among other magazines, newspapers, and websites. He was a 2010 finalist for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism Arts & Culture Fellowship and a 2010 fellow at the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera at Columbia University. He is the senior humanities writer at the Johns Hopkins Magazine.
Chelsea Lemon Fetzer (Poetry & Fiction)
Chelsea Lemon Fetzer holds an MFA in Fiction from Syracuse University. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals such as Callaloo, Tin House, Mississippi Review, and Minnesota Review. She serves as the editor of Little Patuxent Review. Her essay “Speck” appears in The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about being Mixed Race in the 21st Century. Fetzer currently teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Baltimore and serves on the board of CityLit project.
Rosalia Scalia (Fiction)
Rosalia Scalia is the author of the story collection, Stumbling Toward Grace (Unsolicited Press). Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Oklahoma Review, North Atlantic Review, Notre Dame Review, The Portland Review, and Quercus Review, among many others. She holds an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University and is a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist’s Award recipient. She won the Editor’s Select award from Willow Review and her short story in Pebble Lake was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Baltimore City with her family.
Rebekah Kirkman (Creative Nonfiction)
Rebekah Kirkman is a Baltimore-based writer and editor. Focusing on arts and culture, her work examines the connections among creative labor, community, and collective effort. She was previously the managing editor at BmoreArt, and before that, she was the visual arts editor at Baltimore City Paper. Her writing can be found in those two publications as well as the Real News Network, Baltimore Fishbowl, Johns Hopkins Magazine, The Outline, and others.
Lisa Snowden (Journalism)
Lisa Snowden is the Editor-in-Chief of Baltimore Beat, a digital and print-based news product based in Baltimore City. At Baltimore Beat, Lisa uses decades of experience both as a reporter and in leadership to help re-imagine a new approach to news and storytelling. Previously, she was an editor at Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore Sun, and The Real News Network. Her work has appeared in Essence, Washington Post, Baltimore Magazine, and many other publications.
Kathy Flann (Fiction & Creative NonFiction)
Kathy Flann’s prose has appeared in The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The North American Review, The Gettysburg Review, and others. Her humor book — entitled How to Survive a Human Attack: A Guide for Werewolves, Mummies, Cyborgs, Ghosts, Nuclear Mutants, and Other Movie Monsters — was featured in the New York Times/Wirecutter article, “Gifts We Want to Give.” She’s also the author of a craft book and two award-winning short story collections. Honors include a Baker Artist Award and an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council.
20th Annual CityLit Festival Partners:
Media Sponsor: Baltimore Beat & Bmore Art
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Chesapeake Shakespeare Company | Busboys & Poets - Baltimore
Ivy Bookshop | Joyful Signing | University of Baltimore Creative Writing MFA
Hedgebrook | American Academy of Poets | Poetry Foundation | Baltimore National Heritage Area |
Many thanks to our generous supporters who make this event possible:
Maryland State Arts Council | Maryland Humanities | Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts | Creative Baltimore Fund | National Endowment for the Arts | Amazon Literary Partnership | Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
William G. Baker Memorial Fund | T. Rowe Price Foundation | Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation | Motor House | Insight 180
CLF23 30-Minute Editorial Critique Sessions
Saturday, March 25, 2023
10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
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CLF23 30-Minute Editorial Critique Sessions
Saturday, March 25, 2023
10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT