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First Wednesday: Kayla Jeswald & Cliff Richeal
March’s First Wednesday Reading, March 4, 7:00, The Soap Gallery, 117 S. Champion St., will feature fiction writer Kayla Jeswald & poet...
Feb 11, 20201 min read


Carpool to Winter Writing Festival in Ravenna Saturday, February 22
here. Like to carpool with Lit Youngstown? Send us a note: LitYoungstown@gmail.com. #Books #stories #writingworkshop #WritingConferences...
Feb 11, 20201 min read


First Wednesday Features Holly Christensen & Chris Gibowicz
Join us for a First Wednesday Series reading by Akron Beacon Journal columnist Holly Christensen and Youngstown poet Chris Gibowicz. Open...
Jan 17, 20201 min read


First Wednesday on Second Wednesday
John Burroughs of Cleveland was recently honored as the 2019-2021 Beat Poet Laureate for the State of Ohio. He serves as the founding...
Dec 15, 20191 min read


Nacho Missable Reading
Yo, Yo-Towners! Join us for a reading by Pamela Anderson & Steve Thomas. Open mic to follow, emceed by Beth Franklin. We will also be...
Oct 9, 20191 min read


First Wednesday Reading Features Mary Grimm & Susan Grimm
Mary Grimm has had two books published, Left to Themselves (novel) and Stealing Time (story collection) – both by Random House....
May 14, 20191 min read


Lou Yuhasz Scholarship
The second Lou Yuhasz Memorial Scholarship is open for submissions. Each year, we will award one $100 scholarship, and invite the...
Apr 17, 20192 min read


First Wednesday: Bonné de Blas, Monica Kaiser & Sheryl St. Germain
Lit Youngstown presents a reading with Bonné de Blas, Monica Kaiser & Sheryl St. Germain, Wednesday May 1 @ 7:00 at The Soap Gallery, 117...
Apr 16, 20191 min read


Seeking Proposal Submissions for Fall Literary Festival
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FALL LITERARY FESTIVAL 2019 Lit Youngstown seeks proposals for presentations, workshops, craft talks and creative...
Apr 13, 20192 min read


Food for Thought: Line Study of a Motel Clerk
Join us for a conversation about Line Study of a Motel Clerk by First Wednesday visiting writer and native daughter Allison Pitinii...
Nov 17, 20181 min read


Join us at the Lakeland Literary Festival
Celebrate the many exciting forms of literature with noted writers. The Lakeland Literary Festival is being held Nov. 30, 2018, from 8:30...
Nov 11, 20181 min read


Poets Adam Hughes & Stephanie Sesic March 7
Wednesday, March 7, The Soap Gallery, 117 S. Champion St. Doors open at 7:15, reading begins at 7:30. Open mic follows the reading....
Feb 12, 20181 min read


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 13, 20171 min read


October Reading at Soap Gallery
October’s First Wednesday Series Reading features local writer Nancy Christie and J. Everett Prewitt of Cleveland. We’ll meet at the Soap...
Sep 11, 20171 min read


Poetry Reading September 6
Join us Wednesday September 6 at 7:00 at Suzie’s Dogs & Drafts in downtown Youngstown, as we welcome Meg Johnson of Iowa and Caryl Pagel...
Aug 7, 20171 min read


Spring Workshop Enrollment Open!
Announcing our Spring 2017 Menu of Workshops! Is there a road you didn’t travel? Thinking about writing the family story? Looking for...
Feb 13, 20171 min read


Poets Sean Thomas Dougherty & Terry Murcko March 1
Our First Wednesday Reading Series features two poets whose words have graced the poetry landscape for decades: Sean Thomas Dougherty and...
Feb 11, 20171 min read


The CROW Makes a Landing at Suzie’s
Student writers from YSU will read their essays selected for the publication CROW, Compose: A Review of Writing. The evening will be...
Jan 19, 20171 min read


History is Local
It just happens that our Dec. First Wed. reading falls on Pearl Harbor Day, so come down and get your history on with readings from some...
Nov 27, 20161 min read


Phenomenal Women Celebration
With profound thanks to the Raymond J. Wean Foundation and to these twelve women in our community, we invite you to a reception cel...
Nov 22, 20162 min read
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