With profound thanks to the Raymond J. Wean Foundation and to these twelve women in our community, we invite you to a reception cel
ebrating the publication of Phenomenal Women: Twelve Youngstown Stories.
Tuesday, December 13 at First Presbyterian Church, 201 Wick Avenue Youngstown.
Parking lot is behind the church; enter on Wood Avenue due to construction on Wick.
Light refreshments will be served. Doors open 6:30 pm, program and staged reading from the book, 7 pm.
If you wish to support the YWCA of Youngstown’s Make A Wish Gift program, bring a new book for a reader aged 1-18.
PLEASE RSVP DIRECTLY to lityoungstown@gmail.com if you plan to attend.
If you’d like to buy a book, they are available for purchase at Flutterby Books in Hubbard and Three Sheep Gallery on Market St. The public libraries in Warren and greater Youngstown will have copies in circulation as soon as they are processed. For more options, please visit this page on our website or send us a note at LitYoungstown@gmail.com.
We are grateful to the Youngstown Section of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) for their support of this project and their introductions to six of the women.
The project would not have been possible without the energy and talents of the team that worked together to create the book.
Lit Youngstown’s YSU student interns, who helped with the interviews, transcriptions, writing and editing: Samuel Amazing, Adrianna Mayes, and Samantha Ensminger.
Lit Youngstown writers and editors: Allison Davis, Kris Harrington, Sean Posey, Karen Schubert, and Molly Toth.
Cover design: Amy Freels, University of Akron Press.
Interior design and layout: Cassandra Twoey.
Portraits of the women: photographer Melanie Rae Buonavolanta.
The book was printed locally by City Printing.
We also appreciate the support, encouragement, and networking offered by members of our wider community, especially Louisa Berger, Gary Davenport, Davita Fitzgerald, Rosemary Fuller, Eres McKee, Carole and Jimma McWilson, and Melissa Papini.
Special thanks to David Hassler of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State for sharing his experience with taking oral histories to the printed page.
— Liz Hill, Project Coordinator
