Creative Reading: Nin Andrews, Melanie Murphy, Paula J. Lambert, Jen McConnell

Name: Creative Reading: Nin Andrews, Melanie Murphy, Paula J. Lambert, Jen McConnell
Start: 2025-10-18T13:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-18T14:45:00-04:00
Location: Butler North Church

Schedule

Sat Oct 18 2025 at 01:30 pm to 02:45 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Butler North Church | Youngstown, OH

Join Lit Youngstown during the 9th Annual Fall Literary Festival for Creative Reading featuring Nin Andrews, Jen McConnell, Melanie Murphy, Paula J. Lambert. This reading is free and open to the public.
In her memoir, Son of a Bird, Nin Andrews describes her life as a medical guinea pig and as being raised by farm hands in wild, lush isolation. In this collection, she connects the dots of her southern upbringing--her father's homosexuality, her mother's autism, and the burdens of childhood awakenings.
Micro fiction, flash, hermit crab fiction–the smallest story can pack the biggest punch. From a one-sentence story to a story in the form of a recipe, come hear from Jen McConnell's newest hybrid fiction collection, Current Disasters.
Melanie Murphy's examination of the "roots and tendrils" of our lives through poetry and lyric essay explore the innate longings and rhythms, earthy and ethereal, that propel us through our lives, that carry us away and then lead us home again.
Paula J. Lambert's Sinkhole confronts the Anthropocene, where climate disaster parallels personal catastrophe. Generations of family, sandwiched together, struggling to survive, pretend that everything’s okay though “the world’s on fire. It burns / quakes, floods. Sink holes open.” The speaker tells us, “All is lost.” Only then does she add, “All is love.”