Show Your Support for The Telling Room by Becoming a Corporate Sponsor

We are excited to invite you to become a Corporate Sponsor of The Telling Room as we begin our 20th year of serving Maine’s youth. Our annual sponsorship structure gives local businesses and organizations multiple ways to connect with audiences through our special events, audience channels, and publications throughout the year. All contributions go towards supporting our suite of innovative writing and publishing programs for youth. Annual events include Big Night, book launches for the Young Emerging Authors and Young Writers & Leaders programs, as well as a very special, high-visibility event this spring. 

On May 22nd 2025 at Mechanics’ Hall we’ll be celebrating our 20th anniversary with the launch of It Rains Diamonds on Neptune: an anthology featuring the best-of Telling Room writing from the last ten years, pairing Telling Room writers with work by a notable adult author from our community. Contributors include Tess Gerritsen, Stu Kestenbaum, Rebecca Turkewitz, and many more. Our previous live events have been enormously popular, and received prominent media attention from News Center Maine’s 207, Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, WMTW, and beyond. 

Current Telling Room sponsors include Bristol Seafood, Coffee By Design, cPort Credit Union, Dead River Company, Down East Magazine, The Law Offices of Joe Bornstein, Machias Savings Bank, Martin’s Point, Pierce Atwood, Verrill, and WEX, to name a few. See our full list of corporate partners here.

To see the cross-sector impact of our work, look no further than our alumni, who are working in healthcare, applying storytelling to computer programming at the Roux Institute, or who are interning at the U.S. Department of the Interior. We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate twenty years of supporting Maine’s youth. If you are interested in sponsoring The Telling Room this year, please be in touch to discuss the details and confirm your level of sponsorship.