In this 90-minute craft intensive, four working essayists, journalists feed you the facts of writing creative nonfiction. What it takes to represent, research, explore and write the “real”. How to merge the boundaries of fiction, poetry with accuracy and research, and anchor it in truth and narrative storytelling. Artist-archivist, writer, curator, Angela Carroll released Exploring Presence: African American Artists in the Upper South, a catalog and short docuseries that surveys underrecognized artists in the DMV region. Rebekah Kirkman is the managing editor of BmoreArt and frequently explores the tensions and dimensions of power and community through the arts. Ron Cassie is a senior editor at Baltimore magazine, winning national magazine awards for his work around climate change, the opioid epidemic, and the death of Freddie Gray. Award-winning writer and moderator Kristina R. Gaddy’s debut nonfiction book Flowers in the Gutter, tells the true story of the teenage Edelweiss Pirates who fought the Nazis. Her forthcoming Well of Souls: Music, Dance, Spirituality, and the Early Banjo is a literary exploration of the little known history of the banjo in the Americas.

LIVE @ THE CENTRAL PRATT LIBRARY (CREATIVE ARTS CENTER)