At the 2026 convention of the National Association for Black Journalists in Atlanta, Wilbert will discuss The Black Shield with Daphne Duret, a reporter and investigative journalist, who writes about policing for the Marshall Project.
For more information about the NABJ’s 2026 conference, click here.
At Books Are Magic’s Montague Street location in Brooklyn, in celebration of the release of The Black Shield, Wilbert will be in conversation with Ugonna Okpalaoka, an Emmy-award winning producer and filmmaker. A signing will follow the talk.
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Livestream the talk for free here.
Wilbert will lead a workshop at Literary Cleveland's Inkubator Writing Conference, guiding writers on how to craft powerful narratives about the past when there is a limited or non-existent historical or cultural record.
This conference is free. For more information, click here.
Wilbert will be joining several panel discussions on the craft of writing alongside a wide array of notable authors at the James River Writers Conference in Richmond, Virginia.
To attend the conference and find out more information, click here.
