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Our mission is to encourage the exploration of endless possibility through the power of writing. To empower students with the skills to write their own paths forward, undefined by circumstance. To support new and exciting approaches to writing and inspire student engagement. And to foster generations of creative writers and thinkers, who together will define a better future.

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FEATURED STORY

A Note to My Future Self

February 4, 2021

Different

August 7, 2020

The Case for Chicken Nuggets

July 1, 2020

Edwin On The Moon

April 7, 2020

Reviews For A Book I Never Wrote

March 13, 2020

The Disastrous Christmas

December 3, 2019

The Perfect World

November 19, 2019

Seating Chart

October 2019

There’s Company

August 2019

The Melting Headache

September 2018

NEWS

826NYC Announces Write the Future 2021 Honorees: Neil Gaiman and Elizabeth Acevedo

December 4, 2020

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February Volunteer of the Month: Nancy Lambert

February 1, 2021

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January Volunteer of the Month: Joe Iovino

January 7, 2021

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Meet Naomi Solomon, 826NYC’s New Director of Education

December 8, 2020

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quaranTEEN voices Writing Prompt: ‘Beautiful and Strange’

02/22/2021

For this week’s quaranTEEN voices, special guest Liz Bruenig joins us!...

quaranTEEN voices Writing Prompt: ‘Setting as a Character’

01/25/2021

For this week’s quaranTEEN voices, special guest Samira Ahmed joins us!...

quaranTEEN voices Writing Prompt: ‘What Makes a Person?’

01/11/2021

For this week’s quaranTEEN voices, special guest Leslie Margolis joins us!...

quaranTEEN voices Writing Prompt: ‘Memories of Home’

12/7/2020

For this week’s quaranTEEN voices, special guest Rebecca Stead joins us!...

December Volunteer of the Month: Kelsey Aijala

November 6, 2020

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quaranTEEN voices Writing Prompt: ‘Location, Location, Location’

11/16/2020

For this week’s quaranTEEN voices, special guest G.D. Falksen joins us!...

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Ayana A.

AGE 11

FEATURED STORY

A Note to My Future Self

Dear Myself,

You will wear a sparkly blue-and-pink shirt with jeans and long hair. You will dye your hair brown and blue. You will have a white-haired kitten named Peppermint. You will be in 11th grade. You will be 17. I will get you a gift which is a diary with a sparkly fuzzy pen, a ...

Written by Ayana A.