Lit Youngstown

I am delighted to announce I’m going to be one of the readers at next year’s @lityoungstown.bsky.social First Wednesday Series, in March.

2025 Fall Lit Fest Registration | Lit Youngstown Fall Lit Fest 2025 features Kortney Morrow, Todd Davis, Lauren Camp, David Huebert & Sean Prentiss, plus readings, workshops and craft talks by presenters from throughout the U.S. The bookfair hosts s...

So many NEOMFA students/alum/faculty involved in this year's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival 📝📚 We're leading workshops & discussions on The Necropastoral, Poetic Soundscapes, Small Press Ecologies, & more 💜

Learn more: www.lityoungstown.org/2025-fall-li...

Author events N Th Links to event details are added as they become available. October 4, Mary Noé (The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan), Monmouth County (NJ) Public Library, Local Author and Illustrator Book Expo

October 16-18, Lit Youngstown Fall Festival; details here October 29, Mary Noé (The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan), Glen Cove Public Library, NY; details here November 1, Deborah Fleming (Ghosts of an Old Forest), Charles Malone (Light Enters the Grove), and Tom Batiuk (Funky Winkerbean series), Buckeye Book Fair, Wooster, OH November 12, Rebecca Jumper Matheson (Artisans and Designers), free online book launch with the Costume Society of America; details here

New month, new chances to see KSUP authors! Our calendar’s been updated with festivals including @lityoungstown.bsky.social and the Buckeye Book Fair, plus appearances by Mary Noé, Charles Malone, Rebecca Jumper Matheson, and more:

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Sorry to hear about the ligaments! Jeepers. Hope there's more healing before October.

We just registered for Lit Youngstown this morning! Early bird registration through September 15 🐦📚💙

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social author LAUREN CAMP is a featured speaker, and we can’t wait! 👇

Who’s goin?

WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT is the perfect size anthology for @sealeychallenge.bsky.social. (Poems by 24 contributors!)

Order your copy today & enjoy this #Lammys2025 nominated book!

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#sealeychallenge #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets

Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! A close look at writer intent
Writing for the Stage w/ Lilace Mellin Guignard, Judith Sornberger
What the Writer Thinks They Wrote w/ Cherise Benton
@ShantiArts @WilkesUWriting
#WritingCommmunity #amwriting #writesky
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Five Great Quotations about Plots “Not every story has explosions and car chases. That’s why they have nudity and espionage.” – Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum“I don’t praise plots as accurate representations of life, but as ways of ke…

#amwriting #amwritingfiction #writingcommunity #writingcommunity #writesky inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Small Press Pitching & Publishing w/Jen McConnell Doron, Kim Jacobs-Beck
Small presses are a wonderful way to get published. No agent, creative control, niche genres. Cons: author does most of the marketing
#WritingCommunity @milkandcakepr @RoadSidePress
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Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Bookfair! After Happy Hour, Brainchild, CLE State U Poetry Ctr, Crisis Chronicles, Dodge, Driftwood, Elizabeth's Bookshop, Eulalia, Last-Picked, Milk & Cake, Neighborhood Bookstore Pdcst, Painted Pebble, POP! Art Bks Culture, Rescue, 7 Kitchens, Wick, Wilkes MFA
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Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Creative Reading
w/ Richard Klin, Daniel Lassell, CE Mackenzie, Christopher Sims
@dlassell @cemackenzie @TxReviewPress @madhouse_press @PorchTN @lighthousewrite
#poetry #creativenonfiction #poetrycommunity
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Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh!
Writer-blogger Rebecca Moon Ruark in conversation with prose features David Huebert and Sean Prentiss #fiction #creativenonfiction #WritingCommunity
@PrentissSean @NOBA_Books @norwichnews
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Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp
How to Make Luck: Writing in Praise of the Ordinary
We need to keep finding joy and celebrating gratitude.
@GCConservancy @POETSorg @BlackEarthInst @TheSchooner #poetrycommunity
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Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh!
Necropastoral: Poetry Workshop w/ El Bentivegna, Michelle Duke, Kristen Tetzmann
Writing Poetry from Invisible Disabilities w/ Kate Caraballo
#poetry #poetrycommunity #amwriting @NEOMFA
www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

We highly recommend learning about poetry chapbooks from Mary! She's amazing!

Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest! Sessions like writing workshop
Metaphor at the Root: Generate, Inspire, Activate
w/ Holly M. Wendt. Use real objects to create grounded, substantive metaphors and explore generative possibilities. #amwriting
www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Creative Reading w/ Joseph Hall, @marjoriemaddox @jamiemarich Cecilia Woloch
@WPSU @NAtlanticBooks @NEAarts @FulbrightPrgrm @PushcartPrize #poetry #memoir #poetrycommunity #LiteraryArt #conference
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Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Registration's open for the Fall Lit Fest! Writing Minority Parenthood–Jewish Parents on Raising Minority Children w/ Allison Pitinii Davis, Carly Sachs, Philip Terman, @swerdlow_david Writing Jewish Summer Camp in Turbulent Times w/ @aaronkreuter
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Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Registration's open for Lit Youngstown Fall Lit Fest! Reading w/ Kristy Belton, Nancy McCabe, Dora Odarenko, Robert Wallace
#poetry #fiction #creativenonfiction #literaryfiction
@ViragoBooks @RegalHouse1 @outpost19 @CamCatBooks @umissouripress @MainStreetRag

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Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Researching & Writing the Past w/Christina Fisanick, Reframing Appalachian Stereotypes for Social Justice w/Susan Boser, Wide Branches, Deep Roots: How Appalachian Wisdom Can Help Us All in the Fight for a Sustainable Future w/Amanda Hayes, Jessica Jones​
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Conservation Books July 28 is World Conservation Day

16 Great Books About Conservation
#WorldConservationDay #conservation #nature #outdoors #readthis

Next Steps for Your Poetry Chapbook Workshop with Mary Biddinger (June 16 Zoom) This workshop will give participants an opportunity to learn about putting finishing touches on a chapbook manuscript, including formatting and other pre-submission tasks, as well as sending the chapb...

Hey Poetry Writers! Let's talk chapbooks with the one and only @marybid!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #amwritingpoetry #poetrychapbook #onlinepoetryworkshop
@NEOMFA @uakronpress.bsky.social
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Lit At The Mic Anthology | Lit Youngstown

Hey writers who have read at any of our mics! We're putting together a 10 year anniversary anthology. Please send us your work! We're pretty excited about this.
#FallLiteraryFestival #WinterWritingCamp #FirstWednesdayReaderSeries #YWCAWomensArtShow
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Bird Bath Raffle | Lit Youngstown

Hey bird lovers, art lovers, lit lovers! Check out this raffle to win a stunning handsculpted birdbath. Your ticket purchase helps put some wind in our wings. Free shipping to lower 48
#tonyarmeni #sculpture #birds #birdbath #raffle
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2025 Fall Lit Fest Registration | Lit Youngstown Fall Lit Fest 2025 features Kortney Morrow, Todd Davis, Lauren Camp, David Huebert & Sean Prentiss, plus readings, workshops and craft talks by presenters from throughout the U.S. The bookfair hosts s...

Hey literary writers, readers, educators, editors, students, program directors! Join us for the 9th annual Fall Literary Festival. Incredible featured writers, presenters from Canada and U.S. coast-to-coast, book fair, National Pasta Day, open mic. Yeah. www.lityoungstown.org/2025-fall-li...

In Celebration of the Prose Poem (April 1 Online) Join us in celebration of the prose poem Tuesday April 1 at 7:00pm. This free reading will be livestreamed. To join, visit Lit Youngstown's YouTube Channel, and click on the "Live" tab.Nin Andrews is ...

Crazy honored to be hosting these prose poetry luminaries! Join us for a livestream. Pour yourself a ginger beer and put on your best slippers.
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