Two days of literary goodness for adults and teens! Craft talks, readings, workshops, small groups, open mic. Everything but the cake. And next year??? TWO cakes. A warmest welcome to visiting writers Cynthia Atkins, Quincy Flowers, Janet Wong & David Giffels. Check out our website for more details.
https://lityoungstown.org/fall-literary-festival/

October 7 at 7:00. Lit Youngstown presents a virtual reading by Kelly Bancroft & Jessica Jewell livestreamed via Facebook. Register here to attend on Zoom and/or read in the open mic

Kelly Bancroft (l) writes and teaches in Youngstown, Ohio. Her poems and prose have appeared in many journals and her plays have been presented in Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Milwaukee. She teaches at Hiram College and at the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center.

Jessica Jewell (r) is the author of three collections of poetry including Dust Runner, Slap Leather, and Sisi and the Girl from Town, as well as the co-editor of the bilingual collection I Hear the World Sing. Jewell is the senior academic program director for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, where she also earned her PhD and MFA.

Join us for a digital evening with award-winning poet, Ada Limón!

The Reading will start at 7:00 PM over Zoom. We will update shortly with the access link.

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.

Join us on Zoom and Facebook Live for a First Wednesday Series reading by Craig Paulenich & James Winter. Special invitation to students, graduates & faculty of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts. Open mic to follow.

Craig Paulenich is the author of three books of poetry, Drift of the Hunt (Nobodaddies Press, 2006), Blood Will Tell (BlazeVOX [books], 2009), and Old Brown (Bottom Dog Press, 2018), and editor (with Kent Johnson) of Beneath A Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry (Shambhala Press, 1991). He is a co-founder of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts program (NEOMFA) and Professor Emeritus at Kent State University-Salem.

James Winter is an Associate Professor of English at Kent State University. His work has won the CRAFT Short Fiction Prize, a Pushcart Special Mention, an Honorable Mention for the J.F. Powers Prize, and was a finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. He has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and published in One Story, Salamander, PANK Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, and Dappled Things, among others

Find the Facebook event here.

Join us for a First Wednesday Series reading by poets Heather Dobbins of Fort Smith, Arkansas & Barbara Sabol of Akron. Zoom and Facebook Live, Wednesday, December 2 from 7:00-9:00. Open mic to follow.

Heather Dobbins is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. She is the author of two poetry collections, In the Low Houses (2014) and River Mouth (2017), both from Kelsay Press. Her poems and poetry reviews have been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Pinch, The Rumpus, TriQuarterly Review, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, among others. Please see heatherdobbins.net for more.

Barbara Sabol’s second full-length book, Imagine a Town, was awarded the 2019 Sheila-Na-Gig Editions poetry manuscript prize. She is the author of Solitary Spin (Main Street Rag Press) and two chapbooks. Barbara’s poetry has appeared widely in Journals and anthologies. Her awards include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council and the Mary Jean
Irion Poetry Prize. She lives in Akron, OH with her husband and wonder dogs.

Register for the Zoom room here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpd-qqqDwpEt2cLDSyqR_ljYxKuCgof0Eg