Atomic Books
1100 W. 36th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
(410) 662-4444

The Compleat Bookseller
301 High Street
Chestertown, MD
(410) 778-1480

Chuck & Dave's Books
7001 Carroll Ave
Takoma Park, MD
(301) 891-2665

Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC
(202) 965-5200

Chapters Literary Bookstore
1512 K St., N.W.
Washington, DC
(202) 347-5495

Olsson's Books & Records
Eight locations in Washington, DC

CityLit Project
Based in Baltimore, CityLit aims to increase public appreciation for literature, to build a community of writers, and to enhance the ability of local and area writers to create literature and reach larger audiences.

The Greenbelt Writer's Group
The Greenbelt Writers Group is a community group that encourages and supports the development of literary arts through open readings, writer critique groups, and other activities. Monthly events are held the third Friday of every month at the Greenbelt Community Center.

The Howard County Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo)
Founded in 1974, the HoCoPoLitSo is a community-based literary organization whose programs include readings by distinguished poets and authors; a writer-in-residency program in the 10 Howard County, MD, public high schools; an award-winning cable television series, The Writing Life, now accessible to 2.5 million viewers in Maryland; and Literary Book Prizes to Howard County, MD, high school students.

Maryland Center for the Book
The Maryland Center for the Book brings reading and discussion programs to libraries, senior sites, and work sites, poetry programs to community organizations, and local authors to communities throughout the state.

Maryland Writer's Association
MWA's diverse membership ranges from professional freelancers and published authors, to writers aspiring to be published and those who write as a creative outlet in multiple genres. They offer monthly meetings with speakers, an annual writers' conference, a bimonthly newsletter and a biannual literary journal, as well as writing workshops, literary contests, and writing projects for children.

The Writer's Center
The Writer's Center offers workshops in all genres, a gallery of books and journals, readings and conferences, publications, desktop publishing center, meeting and workspace, and information and communications center in Bethesda.

Write Here, Write Now
Write Here, Write Now offers year-round workshops to the Baltimore area in an effort to create and sustain a community of writers, and to give each member a place to develop their voice and vision in an non-academic setting.

Baltimore Book Festival
Each September, the free Baltimore Book Festival offers a diverse array of 150 literary exhibitors, book signings, poetry readings, cookbook demonstrations, workshops, panel discussions, antiquarian dealers, storytelling, hands-on crafts for children, puppet-making and more.

CityLit Festival
This free literary festival presents readings and discussions with writers from several genres, and showcases authors, poets, self-published writers, literary magazines and journals, academic programs related to the literary arts, and numerous other literary arts organizations.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference
Celebrating the 106th birthday of the great American author and the art of writing, the annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference is a weekend conference in October offering workshops, roundtable discussions, and an evening awards ceremony, reading, and book signing.

Writers Conversations and Connections Conference
Held at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the Writers Conversations and Connections Conference presents a full day of feedback and advice from literary editors on writing, publishing, and the literary landscape. This conference focuses on practical solutions to getting published and taking one’s writing to the next level.

The Graves of Poets
Dorothy Parker was cremated in 1967, but it took until 1988 for her ashes to be claimed. The NAACP, who inherited Parker's literary estate after the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. built a memorial garden at the national headquarters in Baltimore, where the ashes were scattered.

University of Maryland English Programs
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is a 36-credit program whose course requirements include both writing workshops and literature courses. The program offers concentrations in fiction and poetry. Each year the program invites notable writers to visit campus and read their work in the Writers Here and Now Series.

Aerial Magazine and Edge Books
Website for Aerial Magazine, a DC poetry journal edited by Buck Downs, and the small poetry press Edge Books.

Apprentice House
The country's only student-staffed book publisher, based at Loyola College, Apprentice House also hosts an annual poetry chapbook contest.

The Baltimore Review
Published biannually, in the winter and the summer, The Baltimore Review is an eclectic collection of short fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry from Baltimore and beyond.

Johns Hopkins University Press
Founded in 1878, Johns Hopkins University Press is the oldest university press in the United States. Today it is also one of the largest, publishing 58 scholarly periodicals and more than 200 new books each year.

Poet Lore
Established in 1889, Poet Lore is the oldest continuously published poetry magazine in the United States. Published by The Writer's Center, Poet Lore is a quarterly journal of poetry and poetry book reviews.

The Potomac Review
The Potomac Review: A Journal of Arts & Humanities invites submissions of poetry, prose, art, and photography that are expressions and voices of, or reactions to the human and physical terrain of the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond or work done by writers and visual artists living in the region.

Smatish Pace
Based in Baltimore, Smartish Pace is an annual poetry journal featuring poems, interviews, and reviews. The magazine's website also a unique Q&A section where readers can ask poets almost anything.