5TH YEAR · Jan. 16, 2021  

THE COLLEGE CENTER AT TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE · CHARLESTON, SC

Festival Information and Author Registration Coming Soon

Black Ink Announces 2021 Keynote:

Kwame Mbalia

 

Black Ink: A Charleston African American Book Festival will host New York Times bestselling author Kwame Mbalia during its 2021 festival. The author of the middle-grade novel Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky will be featured as the keynote speaker.

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Charleston Friends of the Library Director, Jeanell Marvin is elated to have Mbalia as the keynote. “Now more than ever, it is imperative to amplify Black voices. A middle-grade book featuring a young Black protagonist as the hero is a story that needs to be read by all ages-by everyone. We’re excited to have Mbalia inspire and interact with readers of the Charleston community.”

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Mbalia’s sequel Tristan Strong Destroys the World will be published in October by Rick Riordan Presents/Disney-Hyperion. He is a graduate of Howard University and currently resides in North Carolina with his wife and children.

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