Literacy event offered during Tues. market

WARREN

Bookworms of Warren, in partnership with Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership, Warren City Schools, Warren Public Library and the Fine Arts Council of Trumbull County, will host a literacy event during the Warren Farmers Market at Courthouse Square from 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesday.

The event will include a live painting demonstration to poetry.

The library will offer story times and host a seed bomb activity.

There also will be music, poetry readings and children’s chalk activity.

A Read to Write session will be offered with an instructor and there will be a cooking demonstration at 4.

Free transportation to the market is available; for information call 330-599-9275.

Submissions of original prose, poems or short stories up to 1,000 words about a personal experience with gardening are being sought, particularly from those involved with community gardens.

They will be released in a book by the Bookworms of Warren in summer 2017.

Email to mikenna@tnpwarren.org by Aug. 14 with your name and what garden inspired your story.

Submissions will be reviewed by a committee of community members, including TNP staff, GROW Garden Leaders and Warren residents.