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SUMMARY:Author Event-A Reading and Conversation with Mo Drammeh
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by The Telling Room and the Maine
  Writers and Publishers Association.\n\nAbout the event\n\nMo will read 
 from his new book Where the Cryptids Fled and take part in a conversatio
 n with the audience.  The conversation will be led by local teacher and 
 author\, Chris Packard.\n\nAbout the book\n\nJoin Young Emerging Author 
 Mo Drammeh for a reading from his debut novel\, Where the Cryptids Fled\
 , followed by a conversation with Mo and author Chris Packard. Drammeh w
 rote and published his novel during his time with The Telling Room’s Y
 oung Emerging Authors Fellowship\; a year-long afterschool program where
  young writers receive mentorship and support as they write\, revise\, a
 nd publish a full-length work.\n\nIn Where the Cryptids Fled\, Cassie By
 rne and Jess Wakefield are reporters\, barely scraping by enough to make
  a living because of their queer relationship. Struggling to live in a w
 orld that maligns them\, they discover something never seen before: evid
 ence of cryptids\, such as Mothman\, the Jersey Devil and a few new ones
 \, far too horrific to have ever been named. When they publish it\, thei
 r lives are irrevocably set on a new course\, one that tests their relat
 ionship as Cassie vies for success at any cost and Jess's faith in her p
 artner is tested. A cautionary tale\, Where The Cryptids Fled interrogat
 es validity: who is valid\, and why? Who determines what identities are 
 wrong and right? And most of all\, when you are determined to be invalid
 \, when society has rejected you\, what do you do?\n\nAbout Mo\n\nMo Dra
 mmeh grew up in Bangor\, Maine\, where he has lived all of his life\, an
 d is a senior at Bangor High School. In 2022\, Mo won the 2022 Crime Fla
 sh Competition from the Maine Writers &amp\; Publishers Alliance\, and w
 as named among Maine Magazine's Mainers of The Year for his writing. Mo 
 is a 2023 Macklin Fellow\, and plans to attend the University of Maine t
 o pursue a science degree and was awarded with full tuition for his proj
 ect at the Maine State Science Fair. He plans to continue writing into t
 he foreseeable future and a bit past that\, too. He is currently working
  on the first installment of a planned superhero fantasy &amp\; high fan
 tasy trilogy.
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