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Rep Your City, Partner with Black Writers Weekend
Rep Your City
Lead Local. Launch National.
Black Writers Weekend is more than a touring festival — it’s a growing network of literary leaders, one for every city on the tour. Rep Your City is how that network gets built.
What It Is
Rep Your City is an 8-week leadership cohort designed to train and test the next generation of BWW City Reps. Over the course of the program, participants will build real skills in community organizing, event production, and literary programming — all while being evaluated for a leadership role representing Black Writers Weekend in their home city.
This isn’t a passive workshop. It’s a hands-on proving ground for people ready to turn their passion for their local creative community into a national platform.
Who This Is For
Rep Your City is built for people who:
- Know their city’s writers, bookstores, and creative spaces inside and out
- Have built or led a program, event, or community before
- Want to help bring Black Writers Weekend to their city — and lead it
