Lit News

Toward the end of the year, Lit Youngstown's board selects a literary arts nonprofit and we send a modest donation. It lifts us up to...

Congratulations, Martha Ferenchak on winning the 2022 hand-sculpted Tony Armeni birdbath! We are so grateful to all of the ticket buyers,...

What could be more fun than spending the day in the rosy glow of Silly Science Sunday, writing stories with kids and being part of an...

Join us for a public screening of The Place That Makes Us, Saturday, October 22 at 7:00 pm. This is the first in-person screening this...

Write a story, drop an egg from the sky, walk on water, make a spin painting! So much to do at Silly Science Sunday in downtown...

If you're going to the Summer Festival of the Arts at the new Wean Park, stop by to see us. We enjoy talking to readers, writers and...

Many, many thanks to the Ohio Arts Council and Rob Briggs & Alyssa Lenhoff-Briggs for the funding to bring this talented and insightful...

So thankful to the Ohio Arts Council and Rob Briggs & Alyssa Lenhoff-Briggs for the funding to bring this wonderful poet to our...

First Wednesday Readers Series Presents poets Cindy Bosley of Toledo & Jessica Jones of Akron, Wednesday April 6 at 7 PM at the Soap...

Hopewell Theatre and Lit Youngstown present "I Sing the Body Electric: Whitman’s America in Words and Song," Sunday, March 20 at 3:00 at...

Winter Writing Camp 2022 was a wonderful day, thanks to amazing session leaders, volunteers, participants, caterer Sue Payton, our cookie...

We look forward to reading your proposal! Submit here by March 15. To register a press journal, program or business for the bookfair,...

Stop by the Inner Circle, 6579 Ironwood Blvd., anytime after 5 for a drink or bite to eat and informal conversation. This month's happy...

Join us for a discussion of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones Book 1 on March 19th at 1 PM over Zoom. For the Zoom link, fill out...

This year, Lit Youngstown's monthly book discussion will focus on the idea of the writer: biographies, memoirs, fictional works with a...

First Wednesday Readers Series Presents Mentor poetry and flash fiction writer Mitch James and Cleveland poetry and nonfiction writer...

Lit Youngstown is the grateful recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Arts Resiliency Community Projects Grant that will allow us to bring...

Starting a literary journal is a leap of faith, and we're proud to have Olney Magazine in our literary neighborhood. Congratulations to...

Lit Youngstown student intern Katelyn Urs asks April 1-2 poet-in-residence Manuel Iris three questions about his new book The Parting...

Lit Youngstown is the grateful recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Arts Resiliency Grant that will allow us to bring three...