Registration deadline approaching for Fall Literary Festival
Calling language arts educators, writers, and readers: you’re almost out of time to register for the seventh annual Fall Literary Festival at Youngstown State University.
Hosted by Lit Youngstown at YSU, there will be creative readings, craft talks, interviews, a book fair, round table literary discussions and writing workshops.
Although the festival doesn’t start until Oct. 20 - 21, early registration is required.
The deadline for registration is Sept. 1, and no day of registration will be accepted for this in-person event.
K-12 language arts educators can register online here, and everyone else can fill out a general registration form by the deadline here.
How much does the Fall Literary Festival cost?
- General admission: $60.00
- Graduate students / adjunct faculty: $20.00
- Undergraduate/high school students: Free
Featured speakers, events
The literary festival features over 50 sessions and 150 presenters.
Here are the three featured speakers for this year, who are all acclaimed writers:
- Alison Stine:
- Stine grew up in rural Ohio. She’s a published author, poet, reporter and playwright. She’s written the novels Trashlands and Road Out of Winter, which won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award.
- She was voted Top Author by 5280 magazine for their “Top of the Town” issue in 2022. Keep an eye out for her next novel, Dust, published by Wednesday Books next year.
- Ross Gay: The Book of Delights, a collection of essays written by Youngstown native Ross Gay in 2019, was a New York Times bestseller. He’s written four collections of poetry, including Be Holding, which won the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award. Gay also wrote Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of both the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
- Jill Christman:
- Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays and two memoirs, Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood and Darkroom: A Family Exposure, winner of the AWP Prize for CNF.
- She teaches creative nonfiction writing and literary editing at Ball State University. Christman is also the senior editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and executive producer of the podcast Indelible: Campus Sexual Violence.
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