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🖤 The Black Literary Ecosystem
📚 Kinfolk Lit Fest
📅 July 16-18, 2027
📍 Indianapolis, Indiana
✨ A Literary Family Reunion
🙅🏾‍♀️ @iamcaseyrkelley

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We’re reading Laws of Solomon by Eriq La Salle for October, and this month the conversation doesn’t end when we close the book. 👀📚

This is a full book club discussion. Readers can jump into the conversation, share their thoughts and ask Eriq their questions about the book.

📖 Laws of Solomon by Eriq La Salle
📅 October 29 at 7 PM ET
💻 Virtual
🎤 Hosted by @tukelley
🗣️ Special guest: @eriqlasalle

Finish the book and bring your questions. We’re talking directly to the author. Link in bio. by @kinfolklit

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New city. Same literary family reunion.

Kinfolk Lit Fest returns July 16-18, 2027.

Three days celebrating Black literature across the literary ecosystem.

More details coming soon.

Participation interest form link in bio.

#KLF2027 #ALiteraryFamilyReunion by @kinfolklit

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Cuzzins! How yall feeling about the line-up so far?

We’ve been grinding so you can experience some of your favs in conversation during KLF 2027. We are working as fast as possible to add the remaining half of the line-up including our First Cuzzins, moderators, and industry professionals.

In meantime, who are you most excited to see? And who do you think can play spades?

📍 Indianapolis
📅 Sunday, July 18, 2027
🎟️ Dinner + Keynote included with registration by @kinfolklit

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Round 10 of Who all gone be there? 👀📚

TEN ROUNDS, y’all. 😂 And we have officially reached the penultimate author roundup.

Romance. Memoir. Speculative fiction. Publishing insiders. Page-to-screen storytellers. Debuts. Legends. The family is FAMILYING. 💜

The entire lineup is already live at kinfolklit.com/lineup. Toggle to Books to see the stories at the center of our 140+ conversations.

📍 Indianapolis
📅 July 16–18, 2027
🎟️ kinfolklit.com/register by @kinfolklit

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Romance author. Literary agent. Book adapted for the screen. 😂💜📚

Please help us welcome @the1whowill to Love Jones & Situationships AND Kinfolk Lit Talks at Kinfolk Lit Fest 2027.

Taj will talk romance for the readers then will dive into publishing from the agent’s side of the desk and what happens when a story goes from page to screen for the authors and aspiring authors. 🎬

📍 Indianapolis
📅 July 16–18, 2027
🎟️ kinfolklit.com/register by @kinfolklit

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Some family stories come with a LOT of history.

Please help us welcome @pryorhistories to Real Life, Real Talk at Kinfolk Lit Fest 2027.

In Something We Said, the daughter of comedy legend Richard Pryor weaves memoir with the history of the N-word, examining her father’s complicated legacy and the word he helped put on America’s cultural map.

📍 Indianapolis
📅 July 16–18, 2027
🎟️ kinfolklit.com/register

Curated by @browngirlcollective @theliterarycyph by @kinfolklit

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The next generation of readers starts here. 📚

Please help us welcome @drtiffanygwrites to the Coming in Hot, Coming of Age track at Kinfolk Lit Fest 2027.

Celebrating young adult, middle grade and children’s literature for readers of every age.

📍 Indianapolis
📅 July 16-18, 2027
🎟️ Festival Passes kinfolklit.com/register.

Who all gone be there? 👀
See the lineup: kinfolklit.com/lineup

Curated by @storiesofacolorfulwrld + @rosegoldbooktok by @kinfolklit

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Meet the family. 💜📚

It takes a whole lot of cuzzins to pull off a Literary Family Reunion.

From the auntie with the clipboard and the unc keeping an eye on the Spades table to the curators shaping 18 conversations in every genre track, meet some of the people behind Kinfolk Lit Fest.

And yes, everybody has an assignment. 😂

200+ authors | 140+ conversations | 3 days | 1 pass
🎟️ kinfolklit.com/register by @kinfolklit

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The future is looking Black. 🚀

Please help us welcome @zzclaybourne to the Black to the Future track at Kinfolk Lit Fest 2027.

From fantasy and science fiction to horror, dystopian worlds and everything speculative, this track celebrates imagination without limits.

📍 Indianapolis
📅 July 16-18, 2027
🎟️ Festival Passes kinfolklit.com/register

Who all gone be there? 👀
See the confirmed conversations: kinfolklit.com/lineup

Curated by @theblerdlibrary + @conjuringliteracy/@neverbeenshy by @kinfolklit

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A deadly fire. A missing Black community. A body on campus. And a school with secrets. 👀🔥

Please help us welcome @shardai_smith, whose debut arrives Summer 2027, to Don’t Go in There! at Kinfolk Lit Fest 2027.

All that glitters isn’t gold. Sometimes it’s blood and bone. 😬📚

📍 Indianapolis
📅 July 16–18, 2027
🎟️ Festival Passes kinfolklit.com/register

Who all gone be there? 👀
kinfolklit.com/lineup

Curators: @adoseof.books @locd_booktician_ by @kinfolklit

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We said what we said. 😭🔪

Please help us welcome @thekeiranjames to the Don’t Go In There! track at Kinfolk Lit Fest 2027.

Mystery. Thriller. Suspense. Crime. If your favorite books keep you turning pages way past bedtime, this conversation is for you.

📍 Indianapolis
📅 July 16-18, 2027
🎟️ Festival Passes kinfolklit.com

Who all gone be there? 👀
kinfolklit.com/lineup

Curators: @adoseof.books @locd_booktician_ by @kinfolklit

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Some conversations stay with you long after they’re over.

Please help us welcome @geesmalls to the Real Life, Real Talk track at Kinfolk Lit Fest 2027.

Memoirs, history, politics, culture and conversations that challenge, inspire and inform.

📍 Indianapolis
📅 July 16-18, 2027
🎟️ Festival Passes kinfolklit.com

Who all gone be there? 👀
See the lineup: kinfolklit.com/lineup

Curators: @browngirlcollective @theliterarycyph by @kinfolklit

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