Panels

 

Non-Fiction

Stephen Henderson, Chair

Maya Angelou, Joyce Ladner Carrington, John Henrik Clarke and Piri Thomas, Sam Yette

 

The Literature for Young Readers

Sharon Bell Mathis, Chair

Lucille Clifton, Lorenz Graham, June Jordan, and John Steptoe

 

Playwriting

Clay Goss, Chair

Alice Childress, J.E. Franklin, Ron Milner, Eugene Perkins and Richard Wesley

 

Poetry

Haki Madhubuti, Chair

Mari Evans, Askia Toure, Kalamu ya Salaam and Quincy Troupe

 

Fiction

John O Killens, Chair

George Davis, Kristen Hunter Lattany, Paule Marshall, Ishmael Reed and John Williams

 

Screenwriting

Charlie Russell, Chair; Lonne Elder III and Bill Gunn