Enjoy time in nature with your little one! Lots of seasonal hands-on activities that encourage nature exploration. A portion of the class will be held outside, so please dress for the weather.
This memorial event, featuring contemporary poetry and a short historical talk, will honor the memory of thousands of people sold from Baltimore in the interstate slave trade between 1808, when the transatlantic slave trade was outlawed, and 1864, when Maryland abolished slavery.
FEATURING: Poets Abdul Ali, abdu mongo ali, Hayes Davis, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Reginald Harris, Taylor Johnson, Lauren Russell, and Stewart Shaw, along with scholar Lawrence Jackson.
Join trans and nonbinary writers J Brooke (I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side, 2026), Kelsey L. Smoot (SOULMATE AS A VERB, 2026), Jendi Reiter (Introvert Pervert, 2026), and Jackie Domenus (No Offense: A Memoir in Essays, 2025), for readings and an open discussion on work engaging with gender and the physical manifestation of it. Fun, free cocktails (yes, buried the lede there), and great music by Baltimore’s very own Queen HD.
FRUITCAKE is Baltimore’s quarterly queer reading series. This special AWP edition of the event brings 12 local and national readers to the stage for the biggest, queerest reading Baltimore has ever seen.
HOSTED BY: fifth wheel press
FEATURING: Sadee Bee, Veronica Bennett, Ashley Elizabeth, Romy Rhoads Ewing, Diamond Forde, Erika Gill, Axel B. Kolcow, Alison Lubar, Bleah Patterson, Caroline Ganci Patterson, Jessica Nirvana Ram, and nat raum.
Join us at a Split Lip & Friends benefit reading featuring an incredible lineup of writers.
We’re raising funds for CHARM, a Baltimore-based organization dedicated to nurturing young writers and expanding access to publishing. Gather with us to celebrate the work—and community—that keeps literature alive, across generations.
Must Love Memoir is a New York City-based reading series dedicated to telling personal stories.
FEATURING: D/Annie Liontas, Ronit Plank, Arianna Rebolini, Chet’la Sebree, Hyeseung Song, and Jeannie Vanasco. HOSTS: Krystal Marie Orwig and Hope Elizabeth Kidd.
Mark your calendars for the “Baltimore Trans and ‘Hon’-Binary Reading” at Club Car on March 5 hosted by Rahne Alexander, featuring vendors: LittlePuss Press and Feminist Press
FEATURING: Rahne Alexander, Tonee Mae Moll, Vera Blossom, Tyler Vile, TT Madden, Nic Anstett, M. K. Thekkumkattil, Megan Milks, KM Szpara, Gwen Aube, Alice Stoehr. MUSIC BY: DJ Kotic Couture and DJ Abject Relations. VENDORS: LittlePuss Press and Feminist Press
A multi-genre reading celebrating the 100th anniversary of the University of Baltimore.
FEATURING: Steven Leyva, Jane Delury, Betsy Boyd, and Marion Winik
Registration link coming soon
Join us for an afternoon of fresh food and fresh voices. Celebrate Morgan State’s award-winning student writers AND award-winning faculty—all in one place. Free admission—just bring friends and an appetite for language.
HOSTED BY: Morgan State University
FEATURING: Professor and author A.J. Verdelle; professor and poet Dr. DaMaris B. Hill, plus two Morgan State AWP2026 HBCU Fellowship Awardees: Kassiah Drummond and Jolette Lima
After AWP, walk across the street for an evening of great eats, drinks, and poetry! Writers from Passager and Bracken magazines will combine for a poetic back-and-forth of their newly published work.
HOSTED BY: Passager Books and Bracken Magazine.
March Womens' History Month
Friday March 6, 2026 -Virtual Event
When the world is heavy, we must find our joy and dance. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing is a gathering that is defiant in joy. This free event invites writers, readers, and literary folx to step out of conference mode and onto the dance floor. A high-energy evening designed to bring together creatives from across the country to celebrate literature, movement, and connection. Music curated by Baltimore’s DJ Chris Brooks, featuring a live band, light bites, a cash bar, a photo booth, and plenty of room to dance, meet new people, and reconnect with old friends.
MCHC welcomes Richard Bell, PhD, for an evening lecture event highlighting his most recent publication, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. Through this book, Dr. Bell reframes America’s war of independence as a transformative international event, one that upended the lives of millions of people on every continent and fundamentally transformed the way the world works; disrupting trade, restructuring penal systems, stirring famine, and creating the first global refugee crisis.
Celebrate Olive Dennis—B&O Railroad pioneer and one of the first women railroad engineers—during a day of tours, hands-on S.T.E.A.M.workshops, crafts, and learning for all ages. Held on Pi Day, this event honors innovation, curiosity, and the women shaping STEM.
Celebrate Olive Dennis—B&O Railroad pioneer and one of the first women railroad engineers—during a day of tours, hands-on S.T.E.A.M.workshops, crafts, and learning for all ages. Held on Pi Day, this event honors innovation, curiosity, and the women shaping STEM.
Enjoy a day of free admission at MCHC in celebration of Maryland Day.
Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary! Meet the skilled needleworkers creating Maryland’s collaborative hand-embroidered panel and practice your stitching skills with local Hall-of-Fame Quilter Mimi Dietrich. Maryland’s panel is one of thirteen panels—one for each colony—that will be featured in the final exhibition, America’s Tapestry. Historical associations from across the states have volunteered to collaborate on the panelsߴ historical imagery and have generously agreed to host the stitchers as they work.
Celebrate the public opening of the WayFinder Wing at MCHC with free museum admission all day. Join us for a playful and creative ribbon-cutting to officially open the WayFinder Wing to the public. Throughout the day, explore WayFinders: Making Sense of Our World, a new hands-on, sensory-rich exhibition designed especially for children ages 5–11 and their families.
Celebrate the public opening of the new WayFinder Wing with creative workshops designed for families, members, and the community.
Participate in family art-making, explore the exhibition, and attend one or all of our workshops. Ideal for ages five and above. Enjoy free Museum admission between 1 and 4 pm. Registration required.
1–1:45 pm Olfactory Art with artist Laure Drogoul
2–2:45 pm Sensory Walk
3–3:45 pm Paper Shadow Puppets with artist Annie Howe
This talk will sketch a brief history of what is now the Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) from its 1853 founding in downtown Baltimore to its relocation outside of the city in the early 1900s. MCHC’s 2026 Lord Baltimore Research Fellow Amanda Stuckey, PhD, tells this history through what can be pieced together of individual students’ experiences as they appear in MCHC collections.