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The Schomburg Center Literary Festival 2023
June 17, 2023 @ 11:30 am - 6:00 pm EDT
The 2023 Schomburg Center Literary Festival programming features some of the most talented writers and influential figures in culture today. The festival is built on the foundation created by Arturo Schomburg—encouraging freedom of thought, the relentless pursuit of Black history, and the engagement of our imagination towards our collective freedom.
This year marks its fifth year of the festival and will reconvene communities of book lovers to interact with their favorite authors in Harlem, USA! The festival hosts a marketplace of local organizations and vendors, the New York Public Library mobile library, and programs for all ages.
Readings, panel discussions, and workshops at the event range from prose to poetry, comic books to young adult novels, fiction and nonfiction.
Robert Jones, Jr. will be participating in two of the festival’s events:
Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle: A Conversation with Danté Stewart
Moderator: Robert Jones, Jr.
1 – 1:45 p.m.
The James Baldwin Stage
Book signing to follow.
Blackness, Queerness, and Literature: In Conversation with Jafari Allen (There’s a Disco Ball Between Us) and Robert Jones, Jr. (The Prophets)
Moderator: Samiya Bashir, Executive Director, Lambda Literary
2:15 – 3 p.m.
The James Baldwin Stage
Book signing to follow.
The entire festival takes place on Saturday, June 17, 2023, 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., at
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
(as well as outdoors on 135th Street between Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevards, on stage named after Adam Clayton Powell and Zora Neale Hurston)
New York, N.Y. 10030
The festival is free and open to the public, but you must register for tickets: HERE.