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

Coming soon! Our celebration of young writers published from 2025 - 2026 will include a book fair with sales and signings, interactive activities, award announcements, and author readings from our newest annual anthology. We hope you'll join us as we honor all the students who have been published with The Telling Room this year while launching the 2026 anthology, Peripheral Vision.

THANK YOU

Our literary arts education programs—and our annual anthology—are made possible through the generous support of many individual donors, corporate partners, and grants from: Androscoggin Bank’s MainStreet Foundation; the Anonimo Foundation; the Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Evelyn S. and K.E. Barrett Foundation; the Find Your Light Foundation; the Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Hawkins Project; the Hoehl Family Foundation; the International Women’s Club of New England; the Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust; the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust; the Mascoma Bank Foundation; the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust; the Moser Family Foundation; the Onion Foundation; the Peter Alfond Foundation; the Roaring Brook Family Foundation; the Rona Jaffe Foundation; the Sam L. Cohen Foundation; the Smith Family Charitable Trust; the Warren Memorial Foundation; the Wind Point Foundation; and WEX. This project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.