Macklin Fellowship Recipients Announced

From left to right: Hipai Pamba of The Telling Room, Executive Director Gibson Fay-LeBlanc of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, and Khalil Kilani, recent graduate from the Young Writers & Leaders program at The Telling Room.

We want to wish a big congratulations to our three Macklin Fellowship recipients, Hipai Pamba, Khalil Kilani, and Alexa Barstow! In honor of poet and longtime board member of Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance (MWPA) Michael Macklin, the Macklin Fellowship offers selected Telling Room graduates free, year-long memberships to MWPA and free registration for two workshops so they may continue writing with Maine's community of authors as adults.⁠ ⁠

Thank you to MWPA's Executive Director Gibson Fay-LeBlanc for joining us at our anthology launch last week to honor these young writers and to celebrate with us! Pictured here are Hipai Pamba, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, and Khalil Kilani. Congrats to all three fellows, and may your writing journey continue for years to come!⁠

Read up on the history of this fellowship and previous recipients on the MWPA website here.