Baltimore Writers' Conference
Baltimore Writers’ Conference Saturday, Nov. 4 8 a.m.-5 p.m. College of Liberal Arts, 4th floor, Towson University The Baltimore Writers’ Conference returns after a four-year pandemic hiatus with keynote speaker award-winning journalist, author and speaker, Eric Weiner. Weiner’s most recent book, The Socrates Express, won the 2022 Towson University Prize for Literature. Actor Rainn Wilson’s new Peacock TV series, The Geography of Bliss, is based on Weiner’s New York Times bestselling book of the same title. Weiner is a former foreign correspondent for NPR.
Other guest writers include Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson (freelance writing), Athena Dixon (nonfiction), Leslie Harrison (poetry), Wayne Johnson (screenwriting), Daniel Torday (fiction) and Morgan Ormond (podcasting), plus agent Emily Williamson and editors Elizabeth DeMeo (Tin House) and Mauricio Velázquez de León (Duo Press)
Sponsored by Towson University’s graduate program in professional writing and the Writing Programs at Johns Hopkins Advance Academic Programs. Register now via our registration page.
