Bol Co-op present DC’s inaugural Working Class Literature Festival, which will take place on May 1st-2nd at the Festival Center.

It is inspired by the annual Working Class Literature Festival in Florence, which emerged from the GKN factory occupation, where workers turned struggle into solidarity, and solidarity into celebration and a call to action.

This year’s festival in DC will bring together writers with and without formal training and will explore how working class organizes and resists while also reckoning with how global economic powers shape labor conditions across the world. From poetry and fiction to music, the festival insists on the roses alongside the bread.

Bol Co-op is partnering with Festival Center, Claudia Jones School of Political Education, After the Storm, Long-Haul, and Asian Labour Review.

When RSVP-ing for the festival, please sign up for each session separately. All sessions are free to attend. We will have a few organizations table in the lobby area throughout the day on May 2nd so you can also drop in at any time.

The festival has been sponsored and endorsed by: Beloved Communities Incubator, Teamsters Local 639, DSA Metro DC, CULP, ROC DC, Haymarket, Tilted Axis Press, Akashic Books, Bellevue Literary, Common Notions, Archipelago, PM Press, AK Press, Pluto Press