On Saturday, Nov. 14, Towson University will host the Baltimore Writers' Conference, in its twenty-seventh year at TU and only writing conference in Baltimore, with panels on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, finding a literary agent and more. Guests will learn firsthand from many diverse and remarkable writers.

The event will feature keynote speaker Ed Park. Park is the author of the novels Personal Days and Same Bed Different Dreams (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize). He is a founding editor of the National Magazine Award–winning The Believer, a former newspaper and book editor and a frequent contributor to many periodicals. He is the recipient of the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Deborah Pease Prize from A Public Space. 

Other notable presenters include 'Pemi Aguda (One Leg on Earth and Ghostroots), Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson (Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free), Uche Okonkwo (A Kind of Madness: Stories) and Chet’la Sebree (TURN (W)HERE: A Geography of Home and Blue Opening).

Registration is available now. The fee includes admission to all sessions, quick critiques, free parking, morning refreshments with coffee and tea, a hot buffet lunch and a wine-and-cheese reception at the close of the conference.

Register here