Lit Youngstown

A yellow background with a border made of book covers, and a box with the text: Thanks to everyone who helped celebrate our books in 2025! Boston Globe New York Post MSNBC C-SPAN Chronicle of Higher Education Vox Orion Magazine Foreword Reviews Costume Society of America Baseball Almanac Rust Belt Humanities Lab Cleveland Magazine Pittsburgh Magazine Columbus Book Festival Lit Youngstown North Water Brewing Company Literary Cleveland and many more

As the year winds down, a note of thanks to some of the review outlets, literary organizations, and other partners who’ve helped celebrate Kent State University Press’s books and authors in 2025. We’re excited for even bigger things in 2026!

Winter Writing Camp | Lit Youngstown Winter Writing Camp is a fun day for writers ages 5 and up, no experience necessary.

I look forward to participating in @lityoungstown.bsky.social's free Winter Writing Camp on February 28th, where I'll present a generative workshop, "Beat Writer's Block," about using inspiration from Beat authors to jumpstart your stalled writing. Register at www.lityoungstown.org/winter-writi....

One of many highlights at this past weekend's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival was the Saturday evening featured reading by Lauren Camp, Todd Davis, and Kortney Morrow. So many thanks to Karen Schubert and her team for making this one of the best fests ever!

Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp, who was among the featured speakers at the 2025 @lityoungstown.bsky.social fall Literary Festival. Her book of #Poetry 'An Eye in Each Square,' was published by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social riverriverbooks.org/store/An-Eye...

books on a flint blue blanket: WAKING IN THE SAHARA Zaira Pacheco Mantited by Lauren Shapira WINNER OF THE BARROW STREET PRESS POETRY PR ALMA ALMANAC Romina Freschi Echo 2 of the Park THE DAUGHTER OF MAN - LSsko SALLY ROONEY INTERMEZZO The Mistaken Place TORNADO TED LARDNER Susan Sontag iness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Things Sleepless Nights Under Capitalism from the poems of John Wendell Gabriela Aguirre SARAH ANN WINN Edited by Keith Rosenthal Álvaro Lasso ErFP Translated by Kelsi Vanada SEVEN BOXES FOR THE COUNTRY AFTER Juan Gelman translated by Erin Moure TETHERING WORLD YOU KANAL Capitalism Disability Selected Writings by Marta Russell JANITYEADANE

Beautiful books from @lityoungstown.bsky.social bookfair— @wickpoetrycenter.bsky.social, @eulaliabooks.bsky.social, @poetcamp.bsky.social, @nightlightbooks.bsky.social, and more 📚💙 (Intermezzo picked up in the Orlando airport)

Thanks to @mothergusa.bsky.social for this photo of me reading my protest poem "What They Did" on the opening night of this weekend's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival. Such a full and fulfilling several days!

@davidjbauman.bsky.social and i’s haul from @lityoungstown.bsky.social

Amorak and a blue River River table with books under a wall of art in McDonouhugh Museum of Art

Editor @amorak.bsky.social at the @riverriverbooks.bsky.social table today at @lityoungstown.bsky.social 🌊 🌊 📚 We had such a great day selling books!

Han, Amorak, and Lauren camp selfie everyone smiling. Han in jacket and Lit! blue lanyard, Amorak in pink tshirt and lanyard, Lauren in red sweater and lanyard

With Lauren Camp at @lityoungstown.bsky.social, where we sold out of An Eye in Each Square! 💙📚

Spectacular NEOMFA poets El Bentivegna & Julia Cilano spotted at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival 👀👀

Come say hi 👋 we’re here til 4pm 📚

Looking forward to 3pm at @lityoungstown.bsky.social! Join Samantha Imperi for “Prosody and the Pleasure of Poetic Soundscapes,” & I’m presenting “Villanelle Exploration.”

#poetrynews #poetrysky #poets #poetry

Kerry & I have a contoured villanelle in the latest issue of Painted Pebble Lit Mag.

& we met PPLM staff member Nikki “db” Fragala Barnes today at @lityoungstown.bsky.social.

Read the issue here: paintedpebblelit.com/issue-5-fall....

#poetry #poem #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets

Enjoying the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Lit Youngstown literary conference. #booksky

I had such a wonderful time reading with @crayfishmag.bsky.social at @lityoungstown.bsky.social last night!

It's always a pleasure to share my work & listen to others share theirs, & to be reminded of just how much goodness and beauty still lingers in the world.

A display of books at the Lit Youngstown festival on a table with the Kent State University press name and logo. Text: MOMENTS OF TRUTH 30% off Cards only. We cannot accept cash. FIFTH STAR PLAYHOUSE SQUARE ReSurrection wild Where sar Meets (Mid) West Ghosts ofan , old Forest LeBron James 30% off Cards ony. We caunot accept cash. The Kent State University Press

Kent State University Press Book List - Lit Youngstown Festival Author Title Capuzza, Jamie The Fifth Star Fleming, Deborah Ghosts of an Old Forest Fleming, Deborah Resurrection of the Wild (PB) Lauck, Jon Where East Meets (Mid) West Livingston, Bill The Promise of LeBron James Malone, Charles et al Light Enters the Grove Belew, Terry The Deep Blue of Neptune Dekeersgieter, Colin Opium and Ambergris Terrell, Stephen The Madness of John Terrell Nite, Norman The House That Rock Built Ruffner, Howard Moments of Truth Vacha, John Playhouse Square and the Cleveland Renaissance

Come find KSUP books—and @tottencs.bsky.social, our director—at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival! If you’re not in Youngstown, you can still save 30% on titles from the exhibit (with free shipping, through 10/31). Use code LYF30 at checkout:

www.kentstateuniversitypress.com

I’m talking about the villanelle on Saturday at @lityoungstown.bsky.social!

#poets #poetry #writers #poetrysky #poetrynews

Susan Sontag 😭

I am delighted to announce I’m going to be one of the readers at next year’s @lityoungstown.bsky.social First Wednesday Series, in March.

2025 Fall Lit Fest Registration | Lit Youngstown Fall Lit Fest 2025 features Kortney Morrow, Todd Davis, Lauren Camp, David Huebert & Sean Prentiss, plus readings, workshops and craft talks by presenters from throughout the U.S. The bookfair hosts s...

So many NEOMFA students/alum/faculty involved in this year's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival 📝📚 We're leading workshops & discussions on The Necropastoral, Poetic Soundscapes, Small Press Ecologies, & more 💜

Learn more: www.lityoungstown.org/2025-fall-li...

Author events N Th Links to event details are added as they become available. October 4, Mary Noé (The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan), Monmouth County (NJ) Public Library, Local Author and Illustrator Book Expo

October 16-18, Lit Youngstown Fall Festival; details here October 29, Mary Noé (The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan), Glen Cove Public Library, NY; details here November 1, Deborah Fleming (Ghosts of an Old Forest), Charles Malone (Light Enters the Grove), and Tom Batiuk (Funky Winkerbean series), Buckeye Book Fair, Wooster, OH November 12, Rebecca Jumper Matheson (Artisans and Designers), free online book launch with the Costume Society of America; details here

New month, new chances to see KSUP authors! Our calendar’s been updated with festivals including @lityoungstown.bsky.social and the Buckeye Book Fair, plus appearances by Mary Noé, Charles Malone, Rebecca Jumper Matheson, and more:

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Sorry to hear about the ligaments! Jeepers. Hope there's more healing before October.

We just registered for Lit Youngstown this morning! Early bird registration through September 15 🐦📚💙

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social author LAUREN CAMP is a featured speaker, and we can’t wait! 👇

Who’s goin?

WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT is the perfect size anthology for @sealeychallenge.bsky.social. (Poems by 24 contributors!)

Order your copy today & enjoy this #Lammys2025 nominated book!

www.smallharborpublishing.com/anthologies/...

#sealeychallenge #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets

Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! A close look at writer intent
Writing for the Stage w/ Lilace Mellin Guignard, Judith Sornberger
What the Writer Thinks They Wrote w/ Cherise Benton
@ShantiArts @WilkesUWriting
#WritingCommmunity #amwriting #writesky
www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Five Great Quotations about Plots “Not every story has explosions and car chases. That’s why they have nudity and espionage.” – Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum“I don’t praise plots as accurate representations of life, but as ways of ke…

#amwriting #amwritingfiction #writingcommunity #writingcommunity #writesky inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Small Press Pitching & Publishing w/Jen McConnell Doron, Kim Jacobs-Beck
Small presses are a wonderful way to get published. No agent, creative control, niche genres. Cons: author does most of the marketing
#WritingCommunity @milkandcakepr @RoadSidePress
www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Bookfair! After Happy Hour, Brainchild, CLE State U Poetry Ctr, Crisis Chronicles, Dodge, Driftwood, Elizabeth's Bookshop, Eulalia, Last-Picked, Milk & Cake, Neighborhood Bookstore Pdcst, Painted Pebble, POP! Art Bks Culture, Rescue, 7 Kitchens, Wick, Wilkes MFA
www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Festival Details | Lit Youngstown Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Creative Reading
w/ Richard Klin, Daniel Lassell, CE Mackenzie, Christopher Sims
@dlassell @cemackenzie @TxReviewPress @madhouse_press @PorchTN @lighthousewrite
#poetry #creativenonfiction #poetrycommunity
www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...