National Black Writers Conference 2025 Biennial Symposium

Name: National Black Writers Conference 2025 Biennial Symposium
Start: 2025-03-27T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-27T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Center for Black Literature (CBL) at Medger Evers College, CUNY

: March 27 – 29, 10 am – 10 pm, March 27, all day.

: $0-$33

The Center for Black Literature’s National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium (NBWC2025) returns, and we are honoring Black Young Adult & Middle Grade Literature titans Tony Medina and Rita Williams-Garcia!

Thursday, March 27, 2025 – Saturday, March 29, 2025

Held in-person and Virtually at Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY

The Keynote Conversation and Award ceremony will be moderated by Jacqueline Woodson. Other confirmed participating Young Adult/Middle Grade writers include: Derrick Barnes, Ibi Zoboi, Oluegbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, and Tracey Baptiste, among others.

This Symposium, a culturally enriched literary gathering of writers, educators, literary professionals and the general public, specifically targets Young Adult (YA) and Middle Grade (MG) Literature by Black authors, a genre that has expanded over the last two decades. This genre serves as an energizing force for cultivating and nurturing the critical reading and writing habits of a cross-generation of readers and writers, helps to affirm students’ self-esteem, literacy, identity, and awareness of the contributions of literature by Black writers.