Lit News

Save the dates! This year’s festivals will feature workshops, craft talks, a publishing panel, and readings by these accomplished visiting writers. Lesley Nneka Arimah was born in the UK and grew up wherever her father was stationed for work, which was sometimes Nigeria. Her work has received grants and Lesley Nneka Arimah awards from Commonwealth Writers, AWP, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and others. She was selected for the National Book Foundation

Student writers from YSU will read their essays selected for the publication CROW, Compose: A Review of Writing. The evening will be emceed by CROW editor and Writing Center Director Angela Messenger. Wednesday Feb. 1 at 7:00, Suzie’s Dogs & Drafts downtown. No open mic this month. Congratulations to the featured writers and their essays: Jared Lyder “The Democracy Debate” Antonina Boggia “We’ll Carry On: Welcome to the Black Parade” Lexi Rager “Under the Skin of Eating Disor

We welcome MB Earnheardt and Randi Barlow Pappa to our August First Wednesday reading, August 3 @ 7:00, Suzie’s Dogs & Drafts, 34 N. Phelps St. Free parking on the street and in the lot behind the Voinovich Building on the corner of Hazel & Commerce. An open mic will follow, emceed by local YA novelist Colleen Clayton. Open mic readers are invited to read for 5 min.–their own work, or a writer’s they admire. Randi Barlow Pappa lives in northeastern Ohio with her husband, two

We have two interns this semester: Adrianna Mayes, a YSU English major, and Sam Amazing, a fiction writer in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts. Their talents, experience and enthusiasm will be a great addition to our team dynamics. Adrianna Mayes is from Warren. Sam Amazing has a BA in English from Hiram College, and a BS in secondary education from YSU.  He is currently receiving his masters degree in fiction writing through in the NEOMFA #YSU #YSUEnglishDepartment #Sam