Lit News

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

One of our favorite events of the year pairs the highly accomplished art of Valley women artists with wonderful original poems inspired...

Lit Youngstown is proud to co-host author Kimberly Mack for a Youngstown reading and discussion on her book Living Colour Time's Up - an...

The Youngstown Area Community Concert Band and Lit Youngstown invite submissions of poetry for a July 25 concert at Austintown Township...

Lit Youngstown seeks poets to write original work that responds to visual art in the juried Women Artists Show at the YWCA-Mahoning...

First Wednesday Reader Series presents Olney Magazine editors Brandon Noel & Tony Wade, and nationwide contributors to this...

Winter Writing Camp will be Saturday, February 18, 2023, from 9:30am-3:00pm at St. John's Episcopal Church and the main library....

Youngstown has a rich literary history, and this series will showcase the incredible writers who call or have called Youngstown home....

First Wednesday Reader Series presents poetry and prose writer Kelly Hambly of Kent & poet Jimmy Sutman of Youngstown, Wednesday,...

Award-winning writers and Fall Literary Festival Feature presenters Kelly Fordon and Joy Priest read from their work Friday, October 21...

First Wednesday Reader Series Presents poets Quartez Harris of Cleveland and Kerry Trautman of Findlay on Wednesday, July 6 at 7 PM....

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

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 us for a reading by New Book News writers Jeff Friedman & Meg Pokrass in celebration of The House of Grana Padano, a newly released...

Enjoy a night of fun and relaxation, celebrating 20 issues of Jenny with readings from some of this year’s published authors! Pizza and...

LitYoungstown is pleased to announce a reading from the anthology I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, a...

Lit Youngstown presents a poetry reading and book signing by Quartez Harris & Sony Ton-aime on Friday, May 6th at 7 PM in the sanctuary...

Beginner Poetry Workshop St. John's Episcopal Church Friday, May 6th at 6 PM. We’ll respond to a generative poetry exercise where we’ll...

Lit Youngstown presents a poetry reading by Manuel Iris & Mathias Svalina on Friday, April 1 at 7 PM. Many thanks to our wonderful hosts,...