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



You’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 … 

