Walter Mosley, Angela Davis and other literary icons to appear at 12th National Black Writers Conference in Brooklyn
Brooklyn BookBeat: Medgar Evers College Presents Most Comprehensive Gathering of Black Literary Personalities, Scholars and Professionals in the Publishing Business
The 12th Annual National Black Writers Conference, featuring such literary icons as Walter Mosley, Angela Davis, Maryse Conde and others, will be held from March 27-30 at Medgar Evers College.
Honorees of the 2014 NBWC include Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott; bestselling author Walter Mosley; author and poet Quincy Troupe; French-Caribbean writer Maryse Conde; and posthumously to Margaret Burroughs, co-founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History.
The 2014 theme “Black Writers Reconstructing the Master Narrative” builds on previous NBWCs and takes into account the need to expose the general public to the vast range of texts that Black writers throughout the diaspora are producing. Honoree Walter Moseley described the NBWC as “the most significant gathering of Black writers in the country.”