Terrible Writing By Great Writers

It’s back! Mechanics’ Hall is partnering with MWPA Lit Fest during their Everything, Everywhere All At Once event, for Terrible Writing By Great Writers, an evening where great writers share their worst prose. A handful of authors you know and love will be dusting off those old journals, college love poems, or some of those first drafts they never thought would see the light of day (maybe for good reason).

Feeling brave? We’ll save some time at the end for a few courageous souls to step up to the mic to share their cringeworthy croonings! You’ll laugh, some might cry, but we’ll all feel a little better knowing that to get to the good stuff, we have to get out some of the bad.

Participating writers include Ryan Brod, Marpheen Chan, Susan Conley, Maya Williams, & more!

The novelist Thomas Mann famously said, “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Writers need encouragement! Whether you’ve published a dozen books or are struggling to put pen to paper for the first time, we all long for someone to perch beside us and whisper, “You’ve got this, keep going!”

Be that voice for another writer! Stop by the Writer to Writer: Notes of Encouragement table to pen an anonymous note, and make out an envelope to receive anonymously written notes yourself.

There will be plenty of stationery, pens, and envelopes, and we’ll provide the postage. Whether you pen a page or a paragraph, your words may be the encouragement someone else needs to keep going. And who knows how the note you receive in return will push your writing forward? Everyone who stops by will also get a bonus letter of inspiration on the spot to take away with them.

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This event is pay-what-you-can. Please register to attend in advance. Donations are encouraged!

Libations by Austin Street Brewery & KIT NA Brewing

Doors open at 6:00 PM

Host or Publisher Mechanics' Hall (Maine)