BIG NIGHT 2026

Thursday, June 18th from 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Portland High School’s John Ford Auditorium - Portland, ME
Free & Open to the Public

Our celebration of young writers published from 2025 - 2026 included a book fair with sales and signings, interactive activities, award announcements, and author readings from our newest annual anthology. Thank you for joining us as we honored all the students who have been published with The Telling Room this year while launching the 2026 anthology, Peripheral Vision.

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Peripheral Vision is The Telling Room’s 2025-2026 Annual Anthology. It invites us to turn and look closer at those memories, experiences, imaginations, and voices that are often ignored. This Telling Room anthology reminds us to stay aware of our surroundings, take in the truths of those around us, and broaden the scope of our perception. To truly be seen ourselves, we must be open to the stories of others, even the ones that make us uncomfortable. From twenty-six towns across Maine, the writers in Peripheral Vision ages eight to eighteen look closely at themselves and the world, offering us a lens (and sometimes a mirror) through which to view the world we live in.

ANTHOLOGY | $22.00 | Paperback | 2026 | ISBN 979-8-990764-8-1

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Peripheral Vision

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A Telling Room Anthology

THANK YOU

Our youth empowerment and literary arts education programs—and this book—are made possible through the generous support of many individual donors, corporate partners, and grants from: the Anonimo Foundation; the Butcher Family Foundation; the Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Find Your Light Foundation; the Hawkins Project; the Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust; Kennebec Savings Bank; the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust; the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust; the Moser Family Foundation; the Onion Foundation; the Rines Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Roaring Brook Family Foundation; the Rona Jaffe Foundation; the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation; the Smith Family Charitable Trust; the Warren Memorial Foundation; the Widgeon Point Foundation; the Wind Point Foundation; WEX; and the Xeric Foundation.