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The Telling Room students meet an author they ll never forget Students in the Young Writers and Leaders program are visited by a world-famous author who shares his challenges with writing - as well life lessons. Author: Peggy Keyser (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 8:14 AM EST February 25, 2021 Updated: 11:48 AM EST February 25, 2021 PORTLAND, Maine Just over five years ago, the Obama White House honored the Young Writers and Leaders program at Portland’s The Telling Room with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the highest recognition for an afterschool arts program in the country. Young Writers and Leaders (YWL) is one of the programs at The Telling Room that works to empower students to use their voices through writing to tell their stories and impact change in the world. Those lessons came to life recently when an unlikely guest paid that program a visit. ....