
10/16/2025
Writers!
🚨 Today is the LAST DAY to REGISTER for Kweli International Literary Festival featuring workshops, craft talks and MORE, with award-winning authors of color and top industry agents & editors!
REGISTRATION CLOSES today, Thurs, OCT 16!
🎟️ SIGN UP on our website to get full access to !
Registration includes full-day, weekend-long OPENING PROGRAM, OCT 18-19
➕ CLOSING EVENT w/ NYT bestselling author Megha Majumdar on TUESDAY, NOV 18!
Megha’s novel, A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF, (released this week) has *already* been named a finalist for this year’s National Book Award and Kirkus Prize
…AND was just selected as Oprah’s Book Club Pick for October 2025 🌟
‼️ Seats for the closing event are LIMITED and only open to registered festival attendees. Megha’s keynote conversation will focus deeply on craft—so don’t miss your chance to learn from one of the most celebrated authors working today!
🎟️ REGISTER TO JOIN US:
https://www.kwelijournal.org/2025-international-literary-festival-main-page
As always, the festival features master classes, panels and conversations on the Novel, Memoir & more, tailored specifically for Black, Indigenous, People of Color ( ) writers, led by acclaimed authors of color, including:
✨ Keynote Speaker: Aaliyah Bilal (National Book Award Finalist)
✨ Keynote Speaker: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (National Book Foundation “5 Under 35”)
✨Edwidge Danticat (MacArthur Fellow)
✨Sarah Aziza (Palestine Book Awards Finalist)
✨Nicole Dennis-Benn (National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award Finalist)
✨Princess Joy L. Perry (Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award)
✨Xochitl Gonzalez (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
✨Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (National Book Critics Circle Award)
✨Martha S. Jones (Guggenheim Fellow)
✨Dinaw Mengestu (MacArthur Fellow)
See the program schedule and full roster of faculty and 🎟️ REGISTER NOW on our website at the link below 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽👇🏼
https://www.kwelijournal.org/2025-international-literary-festival-main-page
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