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1st Place Poetry: Common Ground

When I was a child, I used to wonder why  Only the insects and birds knew how to fly. Why couldn’t I? When...

Honorable Mention: Puddle Play

Even as a child Eric couldn't resist. The lure of reflections and the shimmer of dancing light made him leap feet first into...

Honorable Mention: Her Name Was Mattie

It was a story full of delicious revenge for scared black kids growing up in the early forties in Ringout, Alabama. It was...

3rd Place Fiction: The Journey

He pushed his head slowly forward, hesitant to leave his sanctuary under the front porch. He’d been lying in his makeshift shelter since the...

2nd Place Fiction: Sensitivity training

A generous degenerate left something for you in a rest stop bathroom between the love-kit/temporary tattoo dispenser and the infinitely useless hand dryer. There’s...

1st Place Fiction: Catharsis

“Señorita Larkin, I will ask this in English since you seem to have extreme difficulty understanding the language of the country in which you...

Poetry & Fiction 2015

Fighting for the write

Join Local Writers

Interested in having others read your written work?

Meet the Literati

New group hopes to inspire younger audience to use Toledo Library

Calling all writers

Have a passion for writing?

There’s a new laureate in town

Congratulations to Jim Ferris for his appointment to the office of Poet Laureate for Lucas County.

The Poetry and SOUL Session

Experience a whirlwind of expression with The Poetry and SOUL Session on the 3rd Thursday Loop

A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks

Stewart Gordon’s latest book

Juneteenth with the Clarence Smith Community Chorus

Celebrate multiculturalism at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Museum Terrace

Spinal Tap!

I know you aren’t supposed to judge a book by its cover, but sometimes the spine tells all.
Toledo City Paper
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