Great Lakes African American Writers Conference
2019 Schedule
East Cleveland Public Library
14101 Euclid Avenue, East Cleveland, OH 44112
Doors Open at 8:30 a.m. ~ Event: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Pre-registrants Enter First
| Time | Presenter |
| 8:55 – 9:10 a.m. | Drumming – Baba Jubal |
| 9:10 – 9:15 a.m. | Negro National Anthem to be sung by Clara Jean Mosley Hall, Ph.D. |
| 9:15 – 9:17 a.m. | Welcome by Director Carlos Lattimore |
| 9:17 – 9:20 a.m. | Opening Remarks by Rev. Dr. Leah Lewis, J.D. |
| 9:20 – 9:22 a.m. | Introduction of Kima Jones by Shaunda Miles McDill of Heinz Endowment |
| 9:22 – 10:22 a.m. | Professional Headliner: “Publicizing Literature by Authors of Color” by Kima Jones |
| 10:22 – 10:30 a.m. | Storytelling & Intermission |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | The Business of Publishing: Traditional v. Non-traditional by Linda Peavy |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12 p.m. | “What Authors Can Learn From Bestselling Books” by Kim Martin Sadler |
| 12:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 12:40 – 12:47 p.m. | Storytelling |
| 12:47 – 12:50 p.m. | Introduction of Damon Young by Dawn Arrington of IOBY.org |
| 12:50 – 1:50 p.m. | Literary Headliner: Writing Humor in a Racist World by Damon Young – A Moderated Conversation with Nicole Yapp of the Cleveland Foundation |
| 1:50 – 2:00 p.m. | Storytelling |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Encouraging Intergenerational Literacy & Writing with Brenda Smith, Ph.D. & Michelle Smith Quarles |
| 2:45 – 3:45 p.m | Writing, Marketing & Getting a Major Publishing Deal, A Conversation with Rhonda Crowder and Abby L. Vandiver |
| 3:45 – 4:30 p.m. | Meaningful and Accessible Academic Writing, A Conversation with Mittie Davis Jones, Ph.D. & Ronnie Dunn, Ph.D. |
| 4:30 – 4:45 p.m. | Public Presentation from Select Writers from GLAAWC Discovering the Writer Within Workshop: Michelle Phillips Fay, Tonya Sams, and Morris Ervin |
| 4:45 – 5 p.m. | GLAAWC Closed-out by the Top Three Winners of the Youth Poetry Slam |
| 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. | GLAAWC Youth Poetry Slam – Lower Auditorium. |