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O Autumn Fruitfulness!
September and October are filling up so richly, we’re going to dedicate a square to all that’s going on, between the NEA Big Read...
Jul 28, 20193 min read
Short Short Fiction Contest
A few years ago, NPR sponsored a 3-minute fiction contest for stories that could be read in 3 minutes or less (fewer than 600 words). Nin...
Jul 21, 20191 min read
Summer Festival of the Arts!
Summer Festival of the Arts is one of our favorite events of the year! We’ll be there with the “Where I’m From” poem template, in...
Jun 27, 20191 min read
NEA Big Read Grant
The Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County (PLYMC) with Lit Youngstown received a grant of $15,000 to host the NEA Big Read in...
Jun 16, 20191 min read
Cancellation
With regret, we have to cancel this Saturday’s picnic. So sorry! We were pretty excited about it. We’ll try again next year.
Jun 6, 20191 min read
Meet Our Summer Intern!
Sarah Davis is a Fiction student in the NEOMFA and will be graduating in Spring 2020 from Y #FictionWriters #Interns #Internships #NEOMFA
May 19, 20191 min read
LITerally a Picnic! RSVP!
Join us Saturday, June 8, for LITerally A Picnic for all ages, at Bear’s Den Cabin in Mill Creek Park, from 5:30 – 8:30. We’re planning a...
May 18, 20191 min read
Thank you, Kennedy Family Fund
Our heartfelt thanks goes to the Kennedy Family Fund, a component fund of the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley, for a $1500...
May 2, 20191 min read
Win an Armeni Birdbath!
Each summer, we raffle a large piece of art and split the purse with the artist. Thanks so very much to Youngstown sculptor Tony Armeni...
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Youngstown Foundation Support Fund
Profound thanks to the Youngstown Foundation for including us in the Support Fund! The Foundation will gift us a 10% bump for donations...
Apr 13, 20191 min read
Seeking Proposal Submissions for Fall Literary Festival
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FALL LITERARY FESTIVAL 2019 Lit Youngstown seeks proposals for presentations, workshops, craft talks and creative...
Apr 13, 20192 min read
Interested in Volunteering?
Would you like to give Lit Youngstown a helping hand? We have set up a 2 minute survey that will let us know what kind of volunteering...
Mar 24, 20191 min read
Winter Writing Camp 2019
Join us for an enjoyable, high-energy day of writing and storytelling Saturday, February 16, 2019, 9:30-3:00, at St. John’s Episcopal...
Jan 3, 20192 min read
Literally: a Party
We’ll be serving up appetizers (National Peanut Brittle Day!), a brief reading by Lit Youngstown board members, and Daniel Mihelarakis,...
Dec 30, 20181 min read
Claudia Rankine at Parma-Snow Library January 23
Many of you joined our Food for Thought discussion of Citizen: An American Lyric last year, part of our series on the American...
Dec 30, 20181 min read
Be a Supporting Member
Kirkus prize-winning author Lesley Nneka Arimah provided the keynote at our Fall Literary Festival. (Photo credit Courtney Kensinger)...
Nov 26, 20182 min read
Join us at the Lakeland Literary Festival
Celebrate the many exciting forms of literature with noted writers. The Lakeland Literary Festival is being held Nov. 30, 2018, from 8:30...
Nov 11, 20181 min read
Come Have Soup With Us
Hats off to the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley for their microfunding initiatives, giving projects a boost with both funding...
Nov 11, 20182 min read
Literary Mural Project Seeks Poems
The poems will be part of artistically designed murals, painted by YSU art students under the guidance of Professor Dragana Crnjak....
Nov 3, 20181 min read
Poems Set in Stone
The final two poems of a special project have been embossed and installed next to a well-traveled walkway at St. John’s Episcopal Church....
Oct 17, 20181 min read
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