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Sep 221 min read

Seeking Volunteer Editorial Staff for Anniversary Anthology

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

Apr 201 min read

CityVerse: a Youth Poetry Showcase (June 4 Stambaugh Auditorium)

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...

Sep 23, 20231 min read

Lit Yo & OHC Collaborate for Writer Support

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

Jun 23, 20231 min read

Music & Poetry with Youngstown Area Community Concert Band (July 25)

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

Jun 12, 20231 min read

YourArts Summer Camp

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

Sep 20, 20221 min read

Silly Science Sunday Stories

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...

Sep 2, 20224 min read

The Place That Makes Us Film Screening (Oct. 22)

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...

May 25, 20221 min read

Lit Yo at Summer Festival of the Arts

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...

May 22, 20222 min read

Writer Residency with Quartez Harris

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

May 22, 20221 min read

Artist Residency with Mike Geither

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

May 22, 20221 min read

YWCA Women Artists Show Reading (June 30)

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...

Apr 17, 20222 min read

Mike Geither Actors' Masterclass & Theatre Roundtable (April 30)

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

Apr 17, 20221 min read

Playwright Mike Geither Leads Talkback at Youngstown Playhouse (April 29)

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...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

Writer Residency with Manuel Iris

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

Mar 8, 20221 min read

I Sing the Body Electric: Whitman's America in Words and Music

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...

Mar 4, 20221 min read

Youngstown Black History Tour (May 7)

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

Mar 4, 20221 min read

Playwriting with Mike Geither (May 1)

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

Mar 4, 20221 min read

Mike Geither "The Body is the Best" Stand-Up (April 30)

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...

Mar 4, 20221 min read

Giving Voice: Mahoning Valley Hispanic Culture (Sat April 2)

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

Feb 8, 20223 min read

Poet-in-Residence Quartez Harris Events May 6-7

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

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