This year, the Mosaic Literary Conference draws its creative and intellectual inspiration from Kleaver Cruz’s The Black Joy Project, centering joy not as an afterthought but as a deliberate, radical framework for storytelling, cultural expression, and community building.

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This year’s event will explore how narratives of Black joy can serve as both resistance and renewal—expanding conversations around identity, creativity, and liberation while inviting writers, artists, and thinkers to engage joy as a critical force in shaping literary and cultural futures.

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Saturday, 11/21/26