Name: The Telling Room's Young Writers & Leaders Poetry Reading
Start: 2025-12-10T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-10T18:00:00-05:00
Location: SPACE

The Telling Room's Young Writers & Leaders Poetry Reading

An afternoon of readings from The Telling Room's Young Writers & Leaders program for Maine high school students with multicultural backgroun
About this Event

Join us for an afternoon of readings from the Young Writers & Leaders, the Telling Room's afterschool literary arts education program for Maine high school students with international and multicultural backgrounds.

Based in Portland, The Telling Room is a literary arts education organization focused on young writers aged 6 to 18. The organization empowers youth through writing, building confidence, strengthening literacy skills, and providing real audiences for Maine students.

The Telling Room's Young Writers and Leaders program first piloted in 2010. Since then, the program has published 11 anthologies and served over 325 teens from 46 unique countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Antigua, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Congo, Cote D'Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan , Kenya, Kurdistan, Kuwait, Libya, Liberia, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Rwanda, Russia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, USA, Vietnam, and Zambia. Alums of this program have had the opportunity to meet and share their writing with legends like Representative John Lewis.