BIG NIGHT 2025
Friday, June 20th from 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Doors Open at 5:00pm
Portland High School’s John Ford Auditorium - Portland, ME
Free & Open to the Public
Our celebration of young writers published from 2024 - 2025 includes a book fair with sales and signings, interactive activities, award announcements, and author readings from our newest annual anthology. Join us as we honor all the students who have been published with The Telling Room this year while launching When Fish Walk.
Directions to Big Night:
When Fish Walk
What are we made of? Are we merely the sum of our parts, or do we extend beyond ourselves, into the place we call home? Are we our routines, or the breaking of them? Our flaws, or our forgiveness? How do we move forward, when it’s time to reimagine our design?
Throughout this book, we answer these questions while we are carried inward, going “deeper in the stitching,” putting ourselves under the microscope. When Fish Walk, a collection of stories, poems, and essays by forty-four authors hailing from twenty-three towns across Maine’s sixteen counties, examines our elemental core.
ANTHOLOGY | $22.00 | Paperback | 2025 | ISBN 979-8-9909764-2-9
Published in Collaboration with Pink Eraser Press
THANK YOU
Our literary arts education programs—and this book—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.
THANK YOU TO OUR CORPORATE SPONSORS:
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Stanza Sponsors
Sentence Sponsors
Word Sponsors
SPECIAL THANKS
We are so grateful to Portland Public Schools for accommodating us for this special evening.