Several literary organizations offer events that are specifically designed for, or feature the work of, writers who have historically been placed on the margins. Here is a list of 23 such events, including conferences, book fairs, festivals, and retreats, all scheduled for 2023.
Read MoreA list of U.S.-based and international events to attend online, originally written for Editors Canada. If you hear of any other diversity-focused writing conferences, festivals or events, please add them to the comments.
Read MoreThis list of diversity-focused book publishers or imprints announced between October 2019 and October 2020 serves as a companion piece to the “15 New(is) Diversity-Focused Publishers and Imprints” piece I wrote in June 2019.
Read MoreHere is a list of three events geared specifically toward writers from marginalized backgrounds. If you are aware of any other diversity-focused writing conferences, festivals or events, please add them to the comments.
Read MoreThe panel “Caste, Color, and Gender,” moderated by Prajwal Parajuly, opened with Yashica Dutt’s account of how she’d spent a lifetime pretending to be someone else… Sharmila Sen had grown up in a society full of different hierarchies—language, religion, social class, gender—but not race… Margo Jefferson didn’t grow up “rich.” “You would say ‘comfortable,’” she explained about her upbringing in Chicago, which she details in her award-winning memoir NEGROLAND.
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