BIG NIGHT 2023

Friday, June 23rd
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Deering Oaks Park Bandstand - Portland, ME

Our celebration of young writers published from 2022 - 2023 will include a book fair with sales and signings, author readings, a scavenger hunt, and award announcements. We are looking forward to honoring all the students who have been published with The Telling Room this year while launching our newest annual anthology, From the Edge of the World. This event is free and open to all, and we invite you to pull up a camp chair or a picnic blanket to enjoy the festivities!

Rain Date: Thursday, June 22nd

This year’s writing and publishing programs—and our annual anthology—could not have taken place without the generous support of many individual donors, corporate partners, and grants from the Amazon Literary Partnership; the Anonimo Foundation; the Edward H. Daveis Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Frog Crossing Foundation; the Hawkins Project; the Hoehl Family Foundation; the Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust; the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust; the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust; the Moser Family Foundation; the Old Bug Light Charitable Foundation; the Onion Foundation; the Peter Alfond Foundation; the Portside Fund; the Rona Jaffe Foundation; the Sam L. Cohen Foundation; Unum; the Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation; WEX; The Whitehead Foundation; the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Maine Humanities Council. This project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. We thank you all.