Are you looking for ways to enliven your homeschool creative writing practice? Join Telling Room Education Manager Marjolaine Whittlesey for a set of lively and fun monthly workshops that help homeschool students ages 12 - 16 find their creative voice.
Come experience The Telling Room magic from February 18th - 21st, 2025—we'll have something for everyone! We’ll welcome youth ages 8 - 12 to into our studio and our fabulous teaching artists will have engaging activities planned for each day.
Join us for Maine’s largest authors’ fair and meet 90+ notable local Maine authors, get your books signed, and support the local literary arts with your purchase of personalized books! Enjoy free readings, talks, and panels throughout the day as we “take over” the beautiful Bangor Public Library to celebrate the Literary Arts this winter holiday season.
You’re invited to share your thoughts on The Telling Room’s space at 225 Commercial Street via two focus groups or a community survey this fall. This feedback is important to The Telling Room’s strategic planning process, and we welcome the voices of our community to weigh in.
Paint the Town Read: The Telling Room’s 20th Anniversary Bash is a literary-eleganza-extravaganza! Please join us for an evening filled with friends, food, stories, classic Telling Room activities, and music (with a DJ'd dance party to follow!) as we honor 20 years of our community empowering young writers and lifting up youth voices.
A showcase of stories, poems, songs, and essays by Maine writers—both youth and adults—adapted for the big screen by local filmmakers and artists. Shown at the Portland Museum of Art in partnership with the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance’s 2024 Maine Lit Fest.
Join this year's Young Emerging Authors from The Telling Room for readings from their newly published books, followed by a discussion about the writing process and a book signing.
*Registration required due to space limitations. Please visit https://scarboroughlibrary.libcal.com/event/12934241 or call 207-883-4723 option 4.*
Join The Telling Room’s 2024 Young Emerging Authors Fellows Josie Ellis, Margaret Horton, Natalia Mbadu, and Madeleine Turgelsky as they celebrate their book launch!
This free workshop is open to LGBTQ+ teens and adults who would like to swap stories and build connections with other members of the LGBTQ+ community.
In this program, Maine Climate Action Now and The Telling Room invite youth ages 13 to 18 to craft their own climate fiction.
We’re excited to honor all the students who have been published with The Telling Room this year at Big Night as we launch our newest annual anthology, This Moment and the Next.
Join this year’s cohort of Young Writers & Leaders as they read from and launch their book, Outbeam the Sun, on Tuesday, May 28th and Wednesday, May 29th from 4:30pm - 6:00pm at the Portland Museum of Art’s Osher Auditorium.
In this year’s anthology of writing from Young Writers & Leaders, you’ll find stories and poems that radiate. Creative writing allows students to shine their brightest. As author Sunila says in her story, “Even now, I’ve only just realized how much writing really means to me. It’s about having another way to understand people and to think from different views and biases that aren’t mine.”
Books will be available for purchase at the event. This event is free and open to the public.
Join us at Words that Change the World, a novel fundraising event to benefit The Telling Room. This first-of-its-kind night at Ocean Gateway on Thursday, May 16th will feature world-changing wordsmiths and storytellers—both emerging and established—whose work has a tangible impact on our community.
Join us at The Telling Room on Friday, May 3rd from 5:30-7:00pm for a special performance with Halcyon of Realized: Animating a Young People's Tomorrow.
Join us Tuesday, February 13th at 5:30pm for a book conversation with Nazik Adam, author of "Mint and Melancholy," and Rose Heithoff.
Join Print: A Bookstore and the Portland Public Library for an evening to celebrate the paperback release of Jas Hammonds' We Deserve Monuments with a panel of amazing Young Adult Fiction authors including Sacha Lamb, author of When the Angels Left the Old Country and The Telling Room's Leela Marie Hidier, author of Changes in the Weather. These great authors will be discussing their writing journeys, the importance of centering marginalized voices in young adult literature, and so much more!
Join us at the Merrill Memorial Library to hear Yarmouth’s own Atticus Prinn read from and discuss his new novel, Foxtrot Algorithm, that he created during his Telling Room’s Young Emerging Authors Fellowship. This is a perfect opportunity to learn about the writing process for current and aspiring writers of all ages! Anyone who enjoys young adult literature will get something from this event.
Praise from best selling author, Boo Walker, says that Foxtrot Algorithm is “one of the best novels [he’s] read this year, period. This fearless YA stunner has all the feels and a plot that is deliciously unpredictable. World, make way for Atticus Prinn, as I have a feeling he’s just getting started.”
For questions about this event, please contact:
Ivy Burns
iburns@yarmouthlibrary.org
207-846-4763
Join us for an all-ages write in at The Telling Room during this year’s National Novel Writing Month.
Join The Telling Room at our upcoming Community Nights as we celebrate and share our newest strategic plan.
We invite our young writers to experience the Portland performing arts scene, and then write about it—tell us what you think! Thanks to our community partners at Portland Ovations, Portland Stage, and the Children's Museum and Theater of Maine, we have a number of free tickets to performances over the next few weeks. We will then offer a workshop focused on the art of writing reviews.
Maine Climate Action Now and The Telling Room invite youth writers to craft their own climate fiction ("cli-fi").
Join Young Emerging Author Mo Drammeh for a reading from his debut novel, Where the Cryptids Fled, followed by a conversation with Mo and author Chris Packard.
Join The Telling Room’s 2023 Young Emerging Authors Fellows as they celebrate their book launch at SPACE on Wednesday, August 16th from 6pm - 7:30pm.
All are welcome to join us at the library on Monday, August 14 at 6 PM for a special Slaven Lecture, an evening of readings and conversation with young authors from all across Maine.
Join us for our annual celebration of Maine’s young writers and the book launch of From the Edge of the World, The Telling Room’s 2023 Annual Anthology.
Come support the 30 authors in the Young Writers & Leaders' newest chapbook at this book launch and reading.
Show & Tell is The Telling Room’s annual celebration of storytelling, featuring authors and musicians from Maine and beyond as they share their stories alongside The Telling Room’s young writers.
Join us for a six week writing workshop at one of the most unique places in Maine. Open to ages 8 - 13.
Join us for a virtual book launch celebrating Astur Unveiled, the debut novel by Young Emerging Authors Fellow Lerman Abdoulkader Waiss.
Explore what it means to be an advocate through the world of poetry. Teens will work on a culminating project which will be performed at the end of the workshop.
Join the Portland Public Teen Library the evening of Friday, December 16th for a virtual event featuring the Telling Room’s 2022 Young Emerging Authors.
Join The Telling Room and Portland Trails for a free trailside poetry reading featuring a slate of talented local poets reading their poems about nature on the Eastern Prom Trail.
