JUNE 25 | 5:30 VIP Reception | 7pm Program | Brown Center | MICA
CityLit Celebration: 10 Years Serving the Region's Writers and Readers

FOOD DRINK MUSIC and LIT!

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Readings by published former board chairs Adrianna Amari, Chic Dambach, Michael Salcman, Dan Fesperman
Music by The Wayfarers
Catering by Nancy by SNAC
Wine courtesy Chesapeake Wine Company
Event sponsor: Kramon & Graham, PA

Tickets are $40 for general admission and $75 for VIP reception plus admission to program. ($150 tickets are available to Benefactors, whose generosity will be acknowledged in the evening’s printed program.) Please make ticket purchases via secure donation page at CityLit Project.

NOTE: Re-purpose our "donation form" and be sure to include names of all attendees for our Door List in the form's COMMENTS BOX. You will get an e-mail confirmation, but no tickets will be mailed.

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The 2014 Maryland Writers' Conference takes place at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute (CCMIT) in Linthicum Heights. The theme for this year’s conference is "Feed Your Writing Habit." Tailor your day to your needs by choosing sessions from the following tracks: Art of Writing, Business of Writing, Craft of Writing, Agents, and Editors. Keynote address by Rafael Alvarez.  Information and schedule here.

CityLit Project and Pratt Library host the 11th annual CityLit Festival with National Book Award winner James McBride, singer-songwriter-novelist Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding), Alan Cheuse, poets, short story writers, and a lively Literary Marketplace.  Information and schedule here.

"An Evening with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald" will feature UB faculty and staff, as well as members of the community, several of Baltimore's best readers.

The program will feature several short excerpts of work by and about the Fitzgeralds:

• pieces from The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and other work by Scott and Zelda;
• letters between Scott and Zelda and between Scott and H.L. Mencken, Zelda's psychiatrists, and others;
• observations about the Fitzgeralds and their work by Hemingway, Doctorow and others;
• fictionalized representations of them and some of their characters from novels by Therese Anne Fowler and Chris Bohjalian;
• and more.

"An Evening with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald" is part of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts Spring Reading Series and Spotlight UB. It is co-sponsored by the Maryland State Arts Council, the Maryland Humanities Council, Baltimore Cultural Alliance, and CityLit.

For more information, contact Kimberley Lynne, UB's theater events coordinator, at 410.837.4053 or by email, klynne@ubalt.edu.

Learn more about the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts.