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

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...

Did you move to the Mahoning Valley? Add your story to the how-we-got-here project underway at Thrive Mahoning Valley. Lit Youngstown is...

Lit Youngstown seeks artwork that responds to poems and story excerpts by presenters of Fall Literary Festival 2021. These highly award...

YSU Painting Professor Dragana Crnjak and students in her class on designing and installing public art are planning for the next section...

Each year, Lit Youngstown’s Board of Directors selects a literary arts nonprofit to send a donation to. It is a meaningful way to support...

We have matched 17 sets of PenPals! Our PenPal parents tell us their kids love getting a letter just for them. We have 6 kids looking for...

In partnership with the YSU Art Department and partially funded by a Wean Foundation Neighborhood SUCCESS Grant, Lit Youngstown is...

We’re starting the PenPal Project! We’ll match kids by age. For more information and to register, click here.

Many thanks to Youngstown’s native son Dr. Gaylord for sharing this poem with us. Ode for COVID 19 Covid 19, so much to adore. Your...

We are so grateful for a Raymond J. Wean Foundation Neighborhood SUCCESS Grant to help us fund the project. The mural will feature a...

We received many fine entries, and a big thank you to all of the writers who sent work our way. Thanks also to judges Anne Garwig, Liz...

We are thrilled to welcome the Wick Poetry Center to talk about some of their incredible work in the community, using poetry to create...

Sarah Davis took a break during her summer internship for Lit Youngstown to be a counselor in the Summer in America program at Youngstown...

Sometimes in a workshop or other setting, a writer will bring up the question of the MFA, Master of Fine Arts, in creative writing. It’s...

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...

The Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County (PLYMC) with Lit Youngstown received a grant of $15,000 to host the NEA Big Read in...

Healthy Community Partnerships: Where Sidewalks En Lit Youngstown is proud to be a partner in this Community Foundation of the Mahoning...

The poems will be part of artistically designed murals, painted by YSU art students under the guidance of Professor Dragana Crnjak....