Maryland Humanities will be at this year’s CityLit Festival with featured author and 2026 One Maryland One Book author, Lawrence Burney!

Baltimore-based CityLit Project is partnering with the Maryland Center for History and Culture to present the 23^rd Annual CityLit Festival, a FREE day-long celebration of literature, April 11, 2026, from 10 am to 6 pm. Join us for a full day of conversations, readings, book signings with your favorite authors, and workshops that focus on the craft of writing.

This year’s festival theme is Bearing Witness: Literature as a Revolutionary Act. Writers are necessary to document the truth, challenge dominant narratives, and create our own space to speak out.

The CityLit Festival brings multiple sessions offering panels, readings, informational discussions, and craft intensives by a wide variety of writers, editors, and publishing professionals.  Related books will be on sale, and a Literary Marketplace provides exhibit space to the area’s diverse community of small presses, self-published authors, literary journals, and organizations serving writers and readers alike.

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Join us in conversation with the 2026 OMOB Winner, Lawrence Burney and esteemed culture writer, Shamira Ibrahim for our first CityLit Festival Session: “Mining the Memory: No Sense in Wishing”!

Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026
Location: Maryland Center for History and Culture, 610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201
Time: 11:00AM – 12:00PM

Baltimore magazine named the CityLit Festival “a can’t miss event on the city’s cultural scene” and “the best place to nurture your inner writer.”