Registration is open for the Fall Literary Festival! Check out the incredible sessions like this one: Writing Minority Parenthood–Jewish Parents on Raising Minority Children: A discussion and generative writing session Allison Pitinii Davis, Carly Sachs, Philip Terman, David Swerdlow Writing Jewish Summer Camp in Turbulent Times: On Lake Burntshore and Diasporic Belonging Aaron Kreuter Writing Minority Parenthood–Jewish Parents on Raising Minority Children: A discussion and generative writing session https://www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-details In this panel, four Jewish parents will discuss how their work engages with raising minority children in this difficult political climate. Our panelists include adoptive parents, parents raising minorities in the Rust Belt and South, and parents who write about struggles with miscarriage and infertility. This panel will include a generative writing session that invites all audience members to write about their experiences with reproduction and parenting through the lens of striving to protect their own cultural traditions in a country that often tries to persecute and erase them.​ Writing Jewish Summer Camp in Turbulent Times: On Lake Burntshore and Diasporic Belonging A funny and emotionally resonant coming-of-age novel about one summer of momentous social and political change at a Jewish sleepover camp. A social satire, romance, and political commentary all in one, Lake Burntshore celebrates the contemporary Jewish world through its most iconic symbol — the often idyllic yet always dramatic summer camp. (fb)

Registration is open for the Fall Literary Festival! Check out the incredible sessions like this one: Creative Reading with Kristy Belton, Nancy McCabe, Dora Odarenko, Robert Wallace Kristy Belton's Hummingbird Hymn draws us into the magic of rocky wildscapes, animal guides and the possibilities that arise when we trust our inner compass.​ Nancy McCabe's debut middle grade novel Fires Burning Underground: A Middle Grade Novel was released in April 2025. She will read excerpts from it and discuss the process of transitioning from writing for adults to writing for young audiences, including the expectations for plot, voice, character, and theme.​ As all species are increasingly threatened and extinction escalates, Dora Odarenko writes for the mutual reciprocal intertwining that earth yearns to reciprocate. This a time beyond easy metaphor, appropriation, and beautifully nuanced structures. It's a time for partnering, for working imagination differently, for collective support of prophetic language.​ Robert Wallace reads from his novel Smell the Bright Cold (2025 Main Street Rag), a novel about Caddy Compson, a character from William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury. (fb)