Poet Betsy Mars will pay your registration fee (or make a donation in your name) for a ONE ART writing workshop. 

ONE ART is a home for good poems. They aim to publish poetry that adds value to the life of their readers. They hope to offer, sustain, and nourish a kind, inviting, and thoughtful community.

Click here to see a full list of upcoming workshops from ONE ART. 

Spend a morning or afternoon hiking at Hiram College’s James H. Barrow Biological Field Station with author and Hiram Professor of English Mary Quade. We will meet at the field station and explore the trails and variety of habitats, stopping to write about what we learn and experience with both free writing and prompts. Bring up to four friends/family members along of any age—as long as they want to write! The field station is over 500 acres and is a member of the Old Growth Forest Network.

Mary Quade is the author of the poetry collections Guide to Native Beasts (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) and Local Extinctions (Gold Wake) and the essay collection Zoo World (The Ohio State University/Mad Creek Books), which won the 2022 The Journal Non/Fiction Prize. Her work has received five Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards for both poetry and creative nonfiction. A professor of English at Hiram College, she regularly teaches creative writing courses outdoors at the James H. Barrow Biological Field Station.

Winner of this experience will be contacted via email to arrange day and time.

Winner will receive a manuscript consultation with Jennifer A Sutherland, author of House of Myth and Necessity and Bullet Points: A Lyric, both from River River Books. Jennifer will review up to 60 pages of poetry, provide detailed written suggestions for development, and meet with you via Zoom for up to one hour to discuss your goals for the project. Find out more about Jennifer and her work here. 

Bio: Jennifer A Sutherland is the author of Bullet Points: A Lyric, a finalist for Foreword Indies Poetry Book of the Year and the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur, and House of Myth and Necessity. Her work has appeared or will soon appear in Plume, Arcturus (Chicago Review of Books), Chicago Quarterly, Birmingham Poetry Review, EPOCH, Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has been a featured reader or panelist at AWP Baltimore, the New York Poetry Festival, Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival, and the Virginia Festival of the Book. She earned her MFA at Hollins University and she lives and works in Baltimore.

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This platter was designed and then separate pieces of glass were cut to fit the design. The glass was then fused at 1500 degrees, and the separate pieces of glass melted together to form a single piece of flat glass. Once the glass cooled, the piece was fired a second time in the kiln at a lower temperature over a mold, where the center slumped down to form a platter. It measures 12.5 " square. It is food safe and should be hand washed.

Bonnie Proudfoot (SE OPA Region Rep) has lived in Athens, OH, for 3 decades. Her poetry, fiction, and essays were nominated for the Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net; her novel, Goshen Road (OU Press) received WCONA’s Book of the Year Award and was Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/ Hemingway. Her chapbook of poems, Household Gods, was published by Sheila-Na-Gig. A full-length poetry collection, Incomer, is forthcoming in April 2026 on Shadelandhouse Modern Press. She co-hosts a monthly conversation about poetry on WOUB-AM. She has a glass studio beside her home.

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Lit Youngstown First Wednesday Reader Series ASL translator Meg Albani will record a poem in ASL translation. You’ll work with Meg to select a poem by you or by a poet you admire.

Meagan Albani is an American Sign Language interpreter whose work centers on expanding access to the arts through visual language. She regularly provides ASL interpretation for Lit Youngstown, helping make poetry and literary performances more accessible to Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences.

Albani has interpreted across a range of artistic settings, including theatre productions at Kent State University at Trumbull, arts programming, exhibitions, and events at the University of Texas at El Paso and the Youngstown State University Department of Art. Her work reflects a commitment to collaboration with artists and performers to ensure that interpretation is not only accurate, but also expressive and responsive to the creative intent of the work.

With a particular interest in the intersection of language and art, Albani explores ways that American Sign Language can function as an artistic medium in its own right. By blending ASL interpretation with poetry, theatre, and visual art, she contributes to performances that engage both hearing and Deaf audiences while highlighting the visual, rhythmic, and expressive qualities of signed language.

Winner of this experience will be contacted via email to arrange meeting day and time.

Winner will receive a $100 gift card toward an online or in-person writing workshop at The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, Virginia! Enjoy being part of a vibrant literary arts community and meet other writers working in your genre. 

The Muse Writers Center celebrates creative writing and the literary arts throughout Hampton Roads, Virginia, the nation, and beyond. We offer in-person, online, and hybrid creative writing classes, workshops, and seminars in every genre (fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, songwriting, and comic book writing, as well as craft and professional development) for beginning and experienced writers--whether they be adults, children, or teens. In our Norfolk literary center, we house a library and space for writers to work and meet. We host diverse and culturally relevant literary events, readings, open mics, and special events at The Muse, around the region, and online for every audience. We never turn anyone away from a class because of their financial situation and have provided tuition help and scholarships to more than 4,000 people. Our engaging and creative outreach to youth and schools, senior living communities, and the military community is always expanding.

https://the-muse.org/

Donated by Executive Director Michael Khandelwal 

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Highest bidder will win an intensive, in-person poetry workshop for you and nine of your friends/colleagues based on a topic of your choice.  The Ohio location is also your preference.

Rikki Santer’s poetry collection, Resurrection Letter was grand prize short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and Shepherd’s Hour, won the Paul Nemser Book Prize from Lily Poetry Review Books. In 2023, she was named Ohio Poet of the Year and currently serves as Artist-in-Residence at the Fran Ryan Center in Columbus, Ohio and as a member of the teaching artist roster of the Ohio Arts Council.  Her fifteenth poetry collection, Could Be, will be published this spring by Sheila-Na-Gig Press. Please contact her through her website, https://rikkisanter.com

Winner of this experience will be contacted via email to arrange day and time.