UBalt's Literary Journal, Welter, Hosts Online Reading, May 9
April 25, 2022
Contact: Office of Advancement and External Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
Welter, the premier literary journal produced by The University of Baltimore, will host its annual reading by authors from the upcoming 2022 edition on Monday, May 9 at 6 p.m. The publication, now in its 56th year, features up and coming contributors from across the country and overseas, who submit works of fiction, memoir, poetry and visual art. These submissions are judged by students from UBalt's M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts as well as undergraduate writing students, who also work together to design and produce the publication. The reading is free and open to the public, and will take place on Zoom. (Attendance details listed below.)
This year's readers include:
Fiction:
- Ally Waldon
- James Magruder
Creative Nonfiction:
- Hilary Sigismondi
- Bernie Groves
Poetry:
- Kathleen Kimball-Baker
- Elisheva Fox
- Shirley J. Brewer
- Iliria Osum
- Janelle Cordero
- Christopher Linforth
- Kayla Renee
- Robert Wilson
- Alexander Etheridge
- Lisa Cantwell
- Liz Holland
- Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas
- Orlantae Duncan
Visual Art:
- Grace Doyle
- Vaiva Kovieraite-Trumpe
- Matthew Mahlstedt
- Italo De Dea
- Luke Manning
- Jim Ross
- Peter Vukmirovic Stevens
- Giovanni Garcia-Fenech
- Ellie Wardman
The 2022 Welter cover (see image above right) features artwork by Grace Doyle.
To join the Zoom session for Welter on May 9 at 6 p.m., type in this meeting ID: 967 6003 7252 in the Zoom app.
Betsy Boyd, director of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts and editor-in-chief of Welter, recently was interviewed about the publication for the website WOW! Women on Writing. Read the interview.
Learn more about The University of Baltimore's M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts.