*Registration required due to space limitations. Please visit https://scarboroughlibrary.libcal.com/event/12934241 or call 207-883-4723 option 4.*

Friday, September 27th, 2024 at Scarborough Public Library
Reading & Signing from 6:00pm - 7:30pm

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.

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About the Authors

Josie Ellis grew up in Washington D.C., but now resides in Portland, Maine, where she attends Casco Bay High School. A longtime lover of poetry and an alumnus of multiple Telling Room programs, Ellis was a junior when she joined Young Emerging Authors and wrote Brackish, her first collection of poetry. She sees writing as her way to connect with the world around her and cannot wait to see how her identity as a poet expands. When not writing, she enjoys studying history, being in nature, and dancing with friends.

Margaret Horton is a rising junior at Baxter Academy. She started writing early drafts of Unnamed at the start of the COVID pandemic four and a half years ago, as a way to escape to mystical worlds outside of her room. Since then, Margaret has participated in several Telling Room programs, including SWARM! and Writers Block. A nature lover and amateur artist, Margaret hopes to one day fill all of her neglected journals with ink.

In her debut book, a memoir, Natalia Mbadu weaves together poems, prose, and song lyrics that tell a story about hope in times of darkness and doubt. Growing up in an Angolan Christian household and moving to the United States at seven years old, Natalia contends with the pressure of navigating life as an immigrant in Portland, Maine. As mental health challenges and questions of faith surface, Natalia starts to sink. She asks herself where she will seek refuge. Where is God in the midst of all the chaos? God knows her, but does she know God? Surely the Darkness Will Cover Me asks the question: How do we find the light in our darkest times?

Madeleine Turgelsky is a Scholastic Award-winning author from the Coast of Maine. Through The Telling Room’s Young Emerging Authors program, she wrote her debut novel, At the Corner of Christopher Street as a sophomore at Cape Elizabeth High School. When she’s not writing, you can find her in a light booth at Cape Elizabeth High School, on Pinterest, or passionately debating the most irrelevant thing she can think of. Madeleine loves to learn about the world around her and, despite what most people will tell you, is stubbornly an optimist.