Updates for National Black Writers Conference with Toni Morrison as Honorary Chair

Effective 2.07.10

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Spoken Word Poetry Café (Brooklyn Public Library)
Staceyann Chinn and Willie Perdomo, Featured Poets
Willie Perdomo added as featured poet for Spoken Word Poetry Cafe

Official Conference Opening: A Conversation with Kamau Brathwaite – Black Writers Reconstructing Memory and Lighting the Way
7:00 PM (Founders Auditorium, Medgar Evers College, CUNY)
Thomas Sayers-Ellis, Introduction of Kamau Brathwaite
Terrie Williams, Mistress of Ceremonies
Thomas Sayers-Ellis will introduce Kamau Brathwaite
Terrie Williams will serve as Mistress of Ceremonies for Opening Night

FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010

Leroy Baylor, Master of Ceremonies

10:00 am to 11:30 am
The Black Writer as Literary Activist
Patrick Oliver, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Dorothea Smartt, and Frank Wilderson
Louis Reyes Rivera, Moderator

Leroy Baylor will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the day.
Louis Reyes Rivera will moderate the panel on the Black Writer as Literary Activist
Patrick Oliver will participate on the panel, Black Writer as Literary Activist

2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Shifting Identities: The Black Writer in the African Diaspora- Session A
Edwidge Danticat, Courttia Newland, Colin Channer and Carole Boyce-Davies
Jacqueline Brice-Finch, Moderator

Carol Boyce Davies added as panelist for Shifting Identities panel

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Black Writers Reconstructing the Master Narrative
Catherine Acholonu, John F Baker, Breena Clarke & Betty DeRamus
Pamela Newkirk, Moderator

Pamela Newkirk added will serve as moderator for Black Writers Reconstructing the Master Narrative

10:00 am to 11:30 am
The Impact of Hip Hop and Popular Culture in the Literature of Black Writers
Yvonne Bynoe, Steven C. Fullwood, Felicia Pride & Toure
Karen Hunter, Moderator

Steven Fullwood added as panelist for Hip Hop and Popular Culture\
Karen Hunter will moderate panel on Hip Hop as Popular Culture

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
The Impact of the Internet: Blogging, Publishing and Writing.
Grace Ali, Nick Charles, Troy Johnson & April Silver

April Silver added as panelist on the Impact of the Internet

5:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Kevin Powell ? Featured Speaker
Black Writers Creating Memories and Lighting the Way

Kevin Powell featured speaker on Conference theme

SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2010

Talkshops ? Talkshop Leaders Announced

10:00 am to 11:15 am
Fiction, Tayari Jones
*Poetry ? Sonia Sanchez
Book Reviews- Clarence Reynolds

11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dramatic Writing- Thulani Davis
Creative Non Fiction-Robert Fleming
Book Proposals- Krishan Trotman

Panel Discussions

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Speculative Fiction: Fantasy, Horror & the Supernatural in the Fiction of Black Writers
L.A. Banks, Michael Boatman, Jewell Parker Rhodes & Che Tyehimba Taylor

Che Tyehimba Taylor added as panelist on Speculative Fiction