I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson  The Creative Alliance is a community based non-profit organization that presents and promotes the arts and humanities. As a membership organization of artists, arts supporters, writers, scholars, and businesses, the Creative Alliance cultivates community through collaboration. Housed in the landmark Patterson Theatre, their facility includes two galleries for contemporary art, a 180 seat flexible theater, a classroom, media lab, offices and live/work studios for 8 artists making The Patterson their home. The Creative Alliance at The Patterson draws audiences, artists and media attention to Southeast Baltimore. Their partnerships with organizations like the Patterson Park CDC, Southeast CDC, Friends of Patterson Park, the Enoch Pratt Free Libraries, and area schools are creating positive changes in the Highlandtown community.
Write Here, Write Now contact is Jed Dodds, CA Artistic Director
www.creativealliance.org
 CityLit Project’s mission is to nurture the culture of literature in the Baltimore metropolitan area. CityLit Project produces literary festivals, hosts author readings, leads writers workshops, teaches writers about the business of books, and educates youth about the importance of reading and the excitement found in books. Founded in 2004, CityLit Project has already hosted more than a dozen literary arts programs, brought Pulitzer-Prize winning and National Book Award winning authors to Baltimore, supplied free exhibit space for scores of writers and organizations, and provided public reading venues for countless aspiring writers and established authors. Collaborative partnerships have been established with other cultural organizations, print media, broadcast outlets, and educational institutions. Its signature event – CityLit Festival – has been named a “Best of Baltimore" by Baltimore Magazine for two consecutive years. Under its Pagoda Press imprint, the organization also publishes books about the region or by local authors. These books preserve the region's cultural, historical, and social heritage or provide a way for creative writers to reach readers.
Write Here, Write Now contact is Gregg Wilhelm, CLP Founder/Director
www.citylitproject.org
 The Real Writer inspires, supports, and mentors local writers of all agents by providing one-on-one private writing tutorials, editing and proofreading services, and workshops. The Real Writer works with writers of all levels, in any form (short stories, poetry, novel, essay, play, memoir, auto/biography, and articles). The goal of The Real Writer is to spread a passion for writing and work with local organizations to create a strong writing community. Check out the website for tips, tools, exercises, and articles to motivate you!
Write Here, Write Now contact is Chris Stewart, aka The Real Writer
www.therealwriter.com
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Christine Stewart is an artist-in-residence with Creative Alliance in Baltimore where she leads the Write Here, Write Now workshops co-sponsored by CityLit Project. She has an M.A. and M.F.A. in creative writing and poetry, is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and has been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Blackbird, The Cortland Review and other literary magazines. Recently awarded an Individual Artist Grant in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council, she is currently at work on a memoir entitled In Residence, and her third novel, Inventory. She is represented by Tracy Brown of Wendy Sherman Associates in New York. To read excerpts of her work, please go to her website www.therealwriter.com
"The real writer is one who really writes." Marge Piercy
Gregg Wilhelm has 15 years experience in the book business as an editor, marketer, and production manager. In 1996, he co-founded Woodholme House Publishers and over five years published fiction, non-fiction, and coffee-table books. In 2004, he founded the non-profit CityLit Project, which nurtures the culture of literature in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Gregg teaches Book Publishing at Loyola College and is director of Apprentice House Publishers, the country's only campus-based, student-staffed publishing company. His book reviews and dispatches from the literary scene can be heard on WYPR's "Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast." Past President of the Mid-Atlantic Book Publishers Association, Gregg speaks at numerous writers' conferences and literary events each year.
"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." H.G. Wells
"An editor, at most, releases energy. He creates nothing." Max Perkins, editor for Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Wolfe
Aaron Cullers: In addition to a background that spans writing award-winning plays to directing feature-length independent films, Aaron Cullers is a writer, director, producer, and managing partner of Pasquinade Films, an independent film production company located in Baltimore, Maryland. Aaron has a degree in Communications and Marketing, and earned a certification for Writing for Film & Television from the Vancouver Film School in British Columbia. Aaron has helped turn Pasquinade films into a full-fledged independent production company, responsible for he New York International Independent Film & Video Festival official selection “Not Another Tolkien Movie,” and “711: The Hit Musical!” – noted in SPIN magazine as a “Best Night Out” in July of 2006. Aaron is currently in pre-production for the series “Tempsylvania,” and his latest feature-screenplay, “Walking in Sunshine.”
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing." Benjamin Franklin
Ryan Whinnem is one of the founders of Mobtown Players in Baltimore, and its Artistic Director through 7 of its 9 seasons. He has written several plays, including Mouse Song (part of the first ten minute playwriting workshop) and Beans and Rice. He has a degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University and is currently a Masters candidate in Directing for Theater at the Catholic University of America.
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