2021 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
2021 Festival Schedule - all events are virtual.
Thursday, September 16, 2021 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Twinbrook Book Discussion Group - Virtual
American Histories: Stories, by John Edgar Wideman
Use this link on Sept. 16th: https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/5420404
Friday, September 17 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Discussion of John Edgar Wideman’s Brothers & Keepers
Discussion Leader: D. Quentin Miller, author of Understanding John Edgar Wideman (2018)
Use this link on Sept. 17th: https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/5493509
Friday, September 24 | 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Fitzgerald’s Birthday Celebration
Showing of Documentary Film, “Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story”
Discussion with the Film’s Director/Producer Robert Steven Williams and Fitzgerald Scholar and Film Participant, Walter Raubicheck, Moderated by Jackson R. Bryer
Use this link on Sept. 24th: https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/5493570
Thursday, October 21 | 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Presentation of the Winners and Runners-Up
F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest
Student Winner Introduced by Taryn S. Trazkovich
Adult WinnerIntroduced by Nathanael Brown
Use this link on Oct. 21st: https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/5493624
Friday, October 29 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
“Readings in Honor of John Edgar Wideman”
Co-sponsored with The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD.
E. Ethelbert Miller
Kyoko Mori
Morowa Yejidé
See https://www.fscottfestival.org/october29 for information on how to register,
Saturday, October 30 | 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Writing Workshops
Ellen Prentiss Campbell:
“Time Travel on the Page: Fiction Fueled by History and the Imagination” (Historical Fiction)
Margaret Talbot:
“The First Sentence, the First Paragraph” (Non-Fiction)
Lauren Francis-Sharma:
“A Different Way to Make a Writer” (Fiction)
William Jones:
“What is Afrofuturism and Why Is it Important?” (Afrofuturist Fiction)
Links to these workshops will be provided to registered people.
All main festival events from 10:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. use this link: https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/5493632
10:45-11:00:
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Gary Berg-Cross, President, F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, Inc.
11:00-12:00 p.m.
Keynote Talk
Michael Dirda:
“Weekly Deadlines: A Personal History of The Washington Post Book World”
1:15 p.m.-2:10 p.m.
Awards Ceremony
Recognition of Montgomery County High School F. Scott Fitzgerald Scholars
Taryn S. Trazkovich
Introduction of John Edgar Wideman
Walton Muyumba
Presentation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature
Gary Berg-Cross
Acceptance and Reading
John Edgar Wideman
2:10 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
“A Conversation About the Art of Fiction”
John Edgar Wideman and Walton Muyumba
3:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Illustrated Talk:
“F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Rockville: Rockville in the 1920s”
Eileen McGuckian
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Writing Workshops
Leila Cabib:
“Stop Staring at That Blank Piece of Paper and Fold Into a Mini-Comic Book” (Graphic Fiction)
E. Ethelbert Miller:
“Memoir as Vaccine: Saving Your Life and Memories” (Non-Fiction)
Links to these workshops will be provided to registered people.
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