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- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min
PenPals Seek PenPals
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...
- Jul 6, 2020
- 5 min
Thanks for the Memories!
In partnership with the YSU Art Department and partially funded by a Wean Foundation Neighborhood SUCCESS Grant, Lit Youngstown is...
- Apr 29, 2020
- 1 min
New for Kids!
We’re starting the PenPal Project! We’ll match kids by age. For more information and to register, click here.
- Mar 26, 2020
- 2 min
COVID 19 Poem by Gregg Gaylord
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...
- Mar 21, 2020
- 2 min
Send Us Your Memories
We are so grateful for a Raymond J. Wean Foundation Neighborhood SUCCESS Grant to help us fund the project. The mural will feature a...
- Sep 21, 2019
- 1 min
Congratulations, Short Short Fiction Winners!
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...
- Sep 11, 2019
- 1 min
NEA Big Read Book Talk, Potluck & Stories Sept. 17
We are thrilled to welcome the Wick Poetry Center to talk about some of their incredible work in the community, using poetry to create...
- Aug 29, 2019
- 4 min
Summer in America
Sarah Davis took a break during her summer internship for Lit Youngstown to be a counselor in the Summer in America program at Youngstown...
- Aug 29, 2019
- 4 min
Thoughts on Pursuing an MFA
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...
- Jul 21, 2019
- 1 min
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...
- Jun 16, 2019
- 1 min
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...
- Apr 25, 2019
- 1 min
Where Sidewalks End
Healthy Community Partnerships: Where Sidewalks En Lit Youngstown is proud to be a partner in this Community Foundation of the Mahoning...
- Nov 3, 2018
- 1 min
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....
- Oct 17, 2018
- 1 min
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....
- Feb 10, 2018
- 3 min
Pictures from Words Made Visible Reception
Thank you to all: artists, writers, supporters, volunteers, the Soap Gallery, the Ohio Arts Council. Special appreciation to photographer...
- Jan 19, 2018
- 1 min
Words Made Visible Gallery Opening
Words Made Visible is Lit Youngstown’s literary-visual art collaboration. In blind judgings, poems and prose by Ohio-affiliated writers...
- Nov 13, 2017
- 1 min
On the Road with Phenomenal Women
It was a great privilege to take our oral history project, Phenomenal Women: Twelve Youngstown Stories, to Arkansas in early November. At...
- Nov 8, 2017
- 1 min
Words Made Visible/Silence is Golden
More congratulations! These Words Made Visible poems were selected by YSU digital “Crows” by Neil Carpathios “Mal du Siècle” by Riley...
- Oct 4, 2017
- 1 min
Words Made Visible
So much congratulations to four poets whose poems were selected to be letterpressed into broadsides by The Cranky Pressman. “Working the...
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