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Mark Your Calendars: Readings from Take Heart

Take Heart Anthology

The Take Heart reading series celebrates the publication of Take Heart: Poems from Maine, an anthology that gathers together the first two years of  Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair’s popular weekly newspaper column of the same name. Every Take Heart event features contributing poets reading not only their own poems from the anthology, but also selected work …

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2013 Maine Literary Awards Finalists Announced!

2013 MLA STICKERThe Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2013 Maine Literary Awards.

More than one hundred books were entered into the Award’s various categories. More than sixty manuscripts were submitted into the award’s Short Works Competition in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Fifty Maine students submitted work in the same …

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You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry (Then We’ll Party!)

Almond book coverGiraldi book coverAn Out-of-Control Reading with Steve Almond & William Giraldi
Longfellow Books in Portland
Saturday, June 1 at 7:00 p.m.
Free!

STEVE …

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Tragicomic: Back-to-Back Prose Workshops with Steve Almond & William Giraldi

almondgiraldiYou’ll laugh, you’ll cry…and then you’ll get published! Two amazing writers, one amazing day. Steve Almond, award-winning author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the story collection God Bless America, and William Giraldi, author of the novel Busy …

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