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Lighthouse Writers Workshop of Denver presents LitFest 2024 with writing workshops, readings, themed happy hours and more.

There's a new queen of the Ohio River; the Belle of Cincinnati won the Great Steamboat Race on Wednesday.

LOUISVILLE — The hometown Belle of Louisville is ready to defend her title against upriver rival, the Belle of Cincinnati, during the Shepherd Insurance Great Steamboat Race on Wednesday, May

Preparations are underway for the Great Steamboat Race next month, when historic steamboats face off on the Ohio River.

Elissa Altman on remembering, seeking truth, and surfing the passage of time.

ROCKLAND — Millay House Rockland, in partnership with the Ellis Beauregard Foundation, will offer a one-month, juried residency in October. The

Gulf of Maine Books is hosting Maine author Penny Guisinger for a discussion on her new book at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. Guisinger will speak about and read from hew new novel, “Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions.” “Shift” is a love story — the […]

ROCKLAND — Millay House Rockland, in partnership with the Ellis Beauregard Foundation, will offer a one-month, juried residency in October 2024. The competitive application is open to writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, plays, or journalism;...

How do we lift up our souls? One good way, says the Rev. Dan Safarik, is just by going to church. Prayer is another great lift.

Elissa Altman looks back on love, work, loss, and the 10th anniversary addition of her memoir.