Join us at The Telling Room on Friday, May 3rd from 5:30-7:00pm for a special performance with Halcyon of Realized: Animating a Young People's Tomorrow.
Join us at Words that Change the World, a novel fundraising event to benefit The Telling Room. This first-of-its-kind night at Ocean Gateway on Thursday, May 16th will feature world-changing wordsmiths and storytellers—both emerging and established—whose work has a tangible impact on our community.
Join us Tuesday, February 13th at 5:30pm for a book conversation with Nazik Adam, author of "Mint and Melancholy," and Rose Heithoff.
Join Print: A Bookstore and the Portland Public Library for an evening to celebrate the paperback release of Jas Hammonds' We Deserve Monuments with a panel of amazing Young Adult Fiction authors including Sacha Lamb, author of When the Angels Left the Old Country and The Telling Room's Leela Marie Hidier, author of Changes in the Weather. These great authors will be discussing their writing journeys, the importance of centering marginalized voices in young adult literature, and so much more!
Join us at the Merrill Memorial Library to hear Yarmouth’s own Atticus Prinn read from and discuss his new novel, Foxtrot Algorithm, that he created during his Telling Room’s Young Emerging Authors Fellowship. This is a perfect opportunity to learn about the writing process for current and aspiring writers of all ages! Anyone who enjoys young adult literature will get something from this event.
Praise from best selling author, Boo Walker, says that Foxtrot Algorithm is “one of the best novels [he’s] read this year, period. This fearless YA stunner has all the feels and a plot that is deliciously unpredictable. World, make way for Atticus Prinn, as I have a feeling he’s just getting started.”
For questions about this event, please contact:
Ivy Burns
iburns@yarmouthlibrary.org
207-846-4763
Join us for an all-ages write in at The Telling Room during this year’s National Novel Writing Month.
Join The Telling Room at our upcoming Community Nights as we celebrate and share our newest strategic plan.
We invite our young writers to experience the Portland performing arts scene, and then write about it—tell us what you think! Thanks to our community partners at Portland Ovations, Portland Stage, and the Children's Museum and Theater of Maine, we have a number of free tickets to performances over the next few weeks. We will then offer a workshop focused on the art of writing reviews.
Maine Climate Action Now and The Telling Room invite youth writers to craft their own climate fiction ("cli-fi").
Join Young Emerging Author Mo Drammeh for a reading from his debut novel, Where the Cryptids Fled, followed by a conversation with Mo and author Chris Packard.
Join The Telling Room’s 2023 Young Emerging Authors Fellows as they celebrate their book launch at SPACE on Wednesday, August 16th from 6pm - 7:30pm.
All are welcome to join us at the library on Monday, August 14 at 6 PM for a special Slaven Lecture, an evening of readings and conversation with young authors from all across Maine.
Join us for our annual celebration of Maine’s young writers and the book launch of From the Edge of the World, The Telling Room’s 2023 Annual Anthology.
Come support the 30 authors in the Young Writers & Leaders' newest chapbook at this book launch and reading.
Show & Tell is The Telling Room’s annual celebration of storytelling, featuring authors and musicians from Maine and beyond as they share their stories alongside The Telling Room’s young writers.
Join us for a six week writing workshop at one of the most unique places in Maine. Open to ages 8 - 13.
Join us for a virtual book launch celebrating Astur Unveiled, the debut novel by Young Emerging Authors Fellow Lerman Abdoulkader Waiss.
Explore what it means to be an advocate through the world of poetry. Teens will work on a culminating project which will be performed at the end of the workshop.
Join the Portland Public Teen Library the evening of Friday, December 16th for a virtual event featuring the Telling Room’s 2022 Young Emerging Authors.
Join The Telling Room and Portland Trails for a free trailside poetry reading featuring a slate of talented local poets reading their poems about nature on the Eastern Prom Trail.
Join us Friday, October 28th at 6:30pm at Yarmouth's Merrill Memorial Library for a reading and conversation with three of our Young Emerging Authors.
Teaching Artists from The Telling Room, along with climate activists, will lead high school and college students from across Maine in crafting personal climate stories as we share our understanding of our place in the climate crisis.
Join The Telling Room and Portland Trails for a free trailside poetry reading featuring a slate of talented local poets reading their poems about nature on the Eastern Prom Trail.
Don’t miss Noor Sager’s author reading at the Baxter Memorial Library on Wednesday October 12th at 6pm!
Don't miss your chance to meet Telling Room authors and stock up on good reads this Saturday at the Maine Lit Fest Book Fair
A series of free in-person writing and performance workshops for LGBTQIA+ teens and allies
This online panel will explore the power of trans authors’ writing and reading for queer audiences and the importance of finding power, hope, and joy in their words.
The NEA Big Read: Portland is hosting a read-aloud of the children’s book Someone New by Anne Sibley O’Brien, focusing on children’s experiences of immigration. The Telling Room will provide a follow-up writing workshop where children will be supported in telling their own stories.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Leela, Noor, Hailey, and Victoria's 2022 titles on August 25th at SPACE Gallery from 3:30pm - 5:00pm.
This year's Young Emerging Authors fellows and Ambassadors will take the mic at the Union Church of Biddeford Pool's 21st Annual Speaker Series on Thursday, July 14th from 7pm - 8:30pm.
Join us for three days to learn The Telling Room’s proven method for improving literacy skills while building confidence and a sense of community. We offer tools and techniques to teachers, artists, and nonprofit leaders in a professional development setting.
Join The Telling Room on Thursday, June 16th in Deering Oaks from 5:00pm - 6:30pm for our annual celebration of young writers, including a book fair, a picnic, author readings, and award announcements.
