BIG NIGHT 2022

Thursday, June 16th
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Deering Oaks Park Bandstand Portland, ME

Big Night is back! Join The Telling Room on Thursday, June 16th at the Deering Oaks bandstand from 5:00pm - 6:30pm for our annual celebration of young writers, including a book fair with sales and signings, author readings, a scavenger hunt, and award announcements. We will be honoring all the students who have been published with The Telling Room this year while launching three new anthologies: Footprints and Stepping Stones, by authors ages 6-11, as well as this year's themed anthology, Echoes from the Basement. 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!

Questions? Contact Publications Director Molly McGrath at: molly@tellingroom.org.

BROWSE BOOKS

Order Telling Room books that will be released on Thursday, June 16th, or stock up on our backlist titles. Join us at Deering Oaks Park on June 16th to purchase books in-person, or order online below. Online orders made after June 10th will ship following the event on June 16th.

DIRECTIONS

 

• If you are coming by car

  Deering Oaks is located just off I-295 (Exit 6B), between Deering Avenue, Park Avenue, and Forest Avenue in Portland. Parking is available around the perimeter of the park.

• If you are coming by bus

  Deering Oaks is accessible via the Greater Portland Metro Bus Lines, routes 2, 4, and 5. For more info, visit gpmetro.org.

GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY:

This year’s writing and publishing programs 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 Davis Family Foundation; the Edward H. Daveis Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Frog Crossing Foundation; the Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust; Martin’s Point Health Care; the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust; the Moser Family Foundation; the Old Bug Light Charitable Foundation; the Onion Foundation; the Portside Fund; the Rines Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation; the Rona Jaffe Foundation; WEX; The Whitehead Foundation; and the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Funding has also been provided by The Maine Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. This project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. We thank you all.