Lit News

Many times over the years people have told us that for an organization with such a small staff and shoestring budget, we do a lot. That...

To celebrate the incredible writers who have graced our mics over these first ten years, 2015-2025, we will publish a ten year...

Enjoy the talents of dozens of students from East High School, Chaney High School and Rayen Early College at a reading on Tuesday, June 4...

Many thanks to our friends at Oak Hill Collaborative for offering their terrific programming to our writers! Are you interested in...

Join us for a concert on the lawn at 7pm on Tuesday, July 25 at Austintown Township Park, featuring the Youngstown Area Community ...

Visual art, drama, music, writing--give your kids an unforgettable week this summer in Youngstown, Oh. Check it out here.

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...

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...

We are so grateful to the Ohio Arts Council for an Arts Resiliency Grant Community Projects Award for allowing us to invite poet Quartez...

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

Forty poems to celebrate forty years of the YWCA Women's Art Show! We congratulate the YWCA and the artists and are so honored to take...

Join award-winning playwright Mike Geither, Lit Youngstown and the Youngstown Playhouse on Saturday, April 30 for a master class on song...

People Along The Way, an original play by Terry Shears, opens at the Playhouse April 22. On Friday, April 29, the show will be followed...

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

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...

Saturday, May 7, 10:00AM-1:00PM Lit Youngstown presents a tour focusing on notable sites and people of critical importance to our shared...

Playwright Mike Geither leads participants in a generative playwriting workshop on Sunday, May 1st at 3 PM at the Hopewell Theatre. All...

Lit Youngstown presents Mike Geither in a stand-up performance of The Body is the Best, Saturday, April 30 at 7:00 PM at the Hopewell...

Join us for a bilingual afternoon of award-winning poetry, storytelling, cuisine from local restaurants & music by the Labra Brothers...