Lit Youngstown offers online, live events
Lit Youngstown will have a pair of events next week. A reading and conversation celebrating LGBTQIA+ voices will be livestreamed on Monday.
Participants will include Rochelle Hunt, author of “The J Girls: A Reality Show,” “In Which I Play the Runaway” and “The Rusted City”; Brent Armendinger, author of “Street Gloss” and “The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying,” both of which were finalists for the California Book Award in Poetry; Nicole Robinson, “Without a Field Guide,” for the Ohioana Book Award in poetry and the recipient of a 2024 Individual Excellence Award for poetry from the Ohio Arts Council; and Maggie Anderson, former director of the Wick Poetry Center and author of several poetry collections and co-editor of several poetry anthologies.
Audiences can access the 7:30 p.m. event by going to Lit Youngstown’s YouTube channel and clicking the “Live” tab.
Molly Fuller and Robert Miltner, both of Canton, will be the featured writers for Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event.
Fuller is the author of the full-length collections “For Girls Forged by Lightning: Prose & Other Poems” (All Nations Press) and “Always a Body” (Cornerstone Press), and two chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence, New Poetry from the Midwest, 100 Word Story, and Bellingham Review. Fuller is the recipient of artist residencies from Wassaic Project and Vermont Studio Center.
Miltner is the author of “And Your Bird Can Sing,” a collection of short stories; “Ohio Apertures: A Lyric Memoir,” and books of prose poetry including “Against the Simple,” “Hotel Utopia,” “Eurydice Rising,” “Orpheus & Echo,” “Horse Skull Moon” and the upcoming “Cicatrix Vortex Codex,” which will be released in 2025.
Meagan Albani will co-host the event at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Westside Bowl, 2617 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown, and an open mic will follow. Admission is free, and the reading is in the Trophy Room, which is accessible only by stairs.