“Make Your Own Story” event to be held at the Tri-State Community School for the Arts

Looking for FREE activities for your children? This free drop-in workshop on Saturday, March 26, 2011 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm focuses on storytelling for young students and includes opportunities for students to verbally tell stories or tell a story through pictures as well as write a story down. Held at the Tri-State Community [...]

Queer Book Group’s March Gathering

Literature has a profound affect on our lives whether we realize it or not. Reading literature can help us to understand the lives of others as well as our own in new and amazing ways. Furthermore, a community of readers is also a wonderful way to build a sense of connection and create a safe [...]

Newest Reading Group at the Center

A community of readers is also a wonderful way to build a sense of connection and create a safe space for discussion and expression.

Regional Opportunities: CityLit Press

Shopping around a manuscript? You might want to look close to home. CityLit Press is a new imprint of the Baltimore based CityLit Project. The small press is especially looking for titles by Maryland authors. According to the website, “The mission of CityLit Press is to publish books that, because of literary quality or regional [...]

Trends: How to become involved in open-air publishing

As featured in Poets & Writers Magazine‘s News and Trends, open-air publishing is growing in popularity as “innovative independent publishers continue to find ways to thread literature into the social fabric.” What is open-air publishing? From poets passing out poems on street corners to public bathroom stall tape-ups, this form of publishing is all about [...]