Camden Conference event next week

Merrill Memorial Library will welcome writers from Portland’s Telling Room, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 6 p.m. The program is a free Camden Conference Community Event.

The program will begin with a short film, “The Whole World Waiting,” which introduces young people who have traveled from all over the world to settle in Portland. The profiles bring the writers’ stories to life engaging the audience in a fuller view of the immigrant experience in Maine. Following excerpts from the film, students will read from their recently published book, “A Season for Building Houses.”

The Telling Room is a nonprofit writing center dedicated to the idea that children and young adults ages 6-18 are natural storytellers.

For more information in the event, call 846-2422 or see www.yarmouthlibrary.org.