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.
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
