MLA/DLACon2025: Full Schedule

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12:00pm EDT

Maryland Author Award Keynote Luncheon: Roseanne A. Brown

Thursday May 8, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

Bayfront Ballroom

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Speakers

Roseanne A. Brown

Author

Roseanne A. Brown is an immigrant from the West African nation of Ghana and a graduate of the University of Maryland, where she completed the Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House program. Her debut novel A Song of Wraiths and Ruin was an instant New York Times Bestseller, an Indie Bestseller... Read More →

Thursday May 8, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Bayfront Ballroom

Keynote, Conference Comm

6:00pm EDT

Thursday Evening Keynote and Banquet: Kristen Arnett

Thursday May 8, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT

Bayfront Ballroom

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Keynote speaker to be announced soon. Dinner banquet is a separate ticket.

Speakers

Kristen Arnett

Author

Kristen Arnett is the queer Floridian author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the New York Times bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary... Read More →

Thursday May 8, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
Bayfront Ballroom

Keynote, Conference Comm

8:00pm EDT

Pub Quiz

Thursday May 8, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

Bayfront Ballroom

Thursday May 8, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Bayfront Ballroom

Social Event, Conference Comm