MLA/DLACon2025: Full Schedule

4:30pm EDT

Opening Keynote: Lady Brion

Wednesday May 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT

Speakers

Lady Brion

Poet

Lady Brion is an international spoken word artist, activist, organizer and educator who has captivated audiences with her powerful performances. She became the Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion and International Poetry Slam Champion (team slam) in April 2021. In 2024 she was... Read More →

Wednesday May 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
TBA

Keynote, Conference Comm

12:00pm EDT

Maryland Author Award Keynote Luncheon

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

TBA

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
TBA

Keynote, Conference Comm

6:00pm EDT

Thursday Evening Keynote and Banquet

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

TBA

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
TBA

Keynote, Conference Comm

9:30am EDT

Closing Keynote

Friday May 9, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am EDT

TBA

Speaker to be announced soon

Speakers

Temim Fruchter

Author

Temim Fruchter is a queer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe... Read More →

Friday May 9, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am EDT
TBA

Keynote, Conference Comm