Young Emerging Authors of

The Telling Room

Wednesday, October 29 @ 4:30 pm

https://www.tellingroom.org/

Join the 2024-2025 Young Emerging Authors of The Telling Room--Reetle Samuel Rook-Dutton, Ramona Rowe, and Sophia Tyutyunnyk--as they read poetry, science fiction, and memoir from their recently published books.

There will also be Q&A about their experience writing their books during the Young Emerging Authors program. Books will be available for purchase through The Telling Room.

https://www.tellingroom.org/bookstore/candle-on-the-tree

https://www.tellingroom.org/bookstore/factory-town

https://www.tellingroom.org/bookstore/deer-silent-and-open-eyed

Sophia Tyutyunnyk wrote Candle on the Tree as a sophomore at Orono High School in Orono, Maine. Her coming-of-age memoir is about accompanying her parents to Kyiv, Ukraine, as they finalized their journey to legal permanent residency in the United States. In 2023, Sophia won The Telling Room's Writing Contest for Penobscot County. Other than writing, Sophia enjoys playing soccer, swimming competitively, listening to music, and traveling with her family. In the future, Sophia hopes to go into STEM and write more books.

Ramona Rowe is a junior at Portland High School with a love of bad sci-fi, ridiculous fantasy, and her irritating cats.  When not writing, she’s drawing supervillains and space aliens or scrolling through Wikipedia to learn everything about everything.  Or if not everything, electrolarynxes, Star Wars, and Providence, Rhode Island. Factory Town is based on her love of science fiction and her family experiences in Worcester (which have always included less explosions and more Vietnamese food).

Beetle Samuel Rooke-Dutton (he/him/his) is a trans guy from California who currently lives in a beach town in southern Maine. Deer, Silent and Open-Eyed is his first published collection of poetry, though he has been writing for over ten years. When not writing, Beetle is active in Maine’s queer youth community, running workshops that work to create safe spaces and improve the accessibility of communities. He also enjoys linguistics, photography, and the outdoors, especially when hiking or on bike trips.

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