Maine Teen Author Visit

“How many of you are there?” the biggest organic asks with an angry tone and furrowed eyebrows. It’s a male human, with a heavy, sagging pink face and a cut on his lip from where Frankie must have punched him. I try to avoid looking at that; it’s wet and red there, organics are wet in so many different ways and it unnerves me.
— Excerpt from Factory Town

Ramona Rowe will be visiting Spaulding Memorial this January. This is a talk for all ages! Ramona is coming to talk about her new book Factory Town. She published the book through The Telling Room. The Telling Room empowers youth through writing and shares their voices with the world. Focused on young writers ages 6 to 18, they seek to build confidence, strengthen literacy skills, and provide real audiences for our students. They believe that the power of creative expression can change our communities and propel youth toward future success as published authors, community leaders, and agents of positive change.

There will be a time for a question and answer period after Ramona reads a selection from her book. Her books and others from different teen writers who have been published through The Telling Room will be available for purchase.

“We’re machines, kiddo. Humans can go to rusting therapy, or drink coffee, or get dogs. The best thing we can hope for is better data storage.”
— Excerpt from Factory Town

Ramona Rowe is a junior at Portland High School with a love of bad sci-fi, ridiculous fantasy, and her irritating cats.  When not writing, she’s drawing supervillains and space aliens or scrolling through Wikipedia to learn everything about everything. Or if not everything, electrolarynxes, Star Wars, and Providence, Rhode Island. Factory Town is based on her love of science fiction and her family experiences in Worcester (which have always included less explosions and more Vietnamese food).