HoCoPoLitSo’s Venues around Town

Find links to Maryland-based literary magazines, literary events like lectures and readings, independent bookstores as well as rare/used books, organizations that support the literary arts, and professional theaters that feature classic and contemporary drama. 

Literary Magazines

• Little Patuxent Review
• The Baltimore Review
• Tidal Basin Review
• Passager Books
• Beltway Poetry Quarterly
• Loch Raven Review
• Stylus
• Potomac Review
• Poet Lore
• The Delmarva Review
• Backbone Mountain Review
• 3QR: The Three Quarter Review
• Connections
• Free State Review
• Grub Street
• jmww
• Smartish Place
• Infinity’s Kitchen
• College/University Literary Magazines
  • The Muse (Howard CC)
  • Bartleby (UMBC)
  • Amaranth (Anne Arundel CC)
  • Preface (Goucher College)
  • Word Planet (Johns Hopkins University)
  • The Red Jacket (Montgomery CC)
  • Lighted Corners (Mount St Mary’s College)
  • Scarab (Salisbury University)
  • The Colophon (Washington College)

Literary Events

• February
  • Irish Evening
•  April
  • CityLit Festival
  • Blackbird Poetry Festival
• September
  • National Book Festival
  • One Maryland One Book
• October
  • Lucille Clifton Reading Series
• Series
  • Writers Here and Now (UMCP)
  • JHU Reading Series
  • JHU Turnbull Lectures
  • Towson Literary Reading Series
  • Goucher College President’s Office Speakers Series
  • Frederick Reads
• • Writers on the Shore Series (Salisbury University)
  • Washington College Summer Poetry Salon
  • Infinity’s Kitchen Reading Series
  • Busboy and Poets
  • Annapolis Book Festival
  • Baltimore Book Festival
  • Bethesda Literary Festival
  • Gaithersburg Book Festival
• International Day of the Book Festival (Kensington)

Independent Bookstores and Used/Rare Books Stores

• Greenrow Books (Ellicott City, Maryland)
• The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore, Maryland)
• The Book Escape (Baltimore, Maryland)
• The Second Edition (Columbia, Maryland)
• Second Story Books (Rockville, Maryland)
• The Book Thing (Baltimore, Maryland – FREE books)
• Normals Books (Baltimore, Maryland)
• A Likely Story Books (Sykesville, Maryland)
• Books with a Past (Glenwood, Maryland)
• The Cricket Bookshop (Ashton, Maryland)
• Red Emma’s (Baltimore, Maryland)
• Edgewater Books (Edgewater, Maryland)
• Gramp’s Attic Books (Old Ellicott City, Maryland)
• Kramerbooks (Washington, DC)
• Busboy and Poets (Bethesday,  Maryland and Washington, DC)

Literary/Arts Organizations

• Maryland Arts Council
• Howard County Arts Council
• Howard County Poetry and Literature Society
• The Writer’s Center
• Enoch Pratt Free Library
• Maryland Writers’ Association
• Maryland Humanities Council
• Maryland Citizens for the Arts
• The National Endowment for the Arts

Theaters

• Rep Stage
• Everyman Theatre
• Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Olney Theatre
• The Montgomery Playhouse
• Clarice Performing Arts (UMCP)
• Center Stage
• Shakespeare Theatre Company
• Roundhouse Theatre
• Annapolis Shakespeare Company
• Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
• Company Rose Theatre
• Iron Crow Theatre
• Performance Workshop Theatre