OUR MISSION

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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May 11, 2018

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February 2018

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January 2018

How to Get Santa Claus on Camera (This Set-Up Is on X-Mas Eve)

December 2017

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October 2017

The Adventures of Nutriman and Junkster

September 2017

I Am From

August 23, 2017

If I Could Transport Anywhere

July 2017

Thunder God

June 2017

Candy Galaxy

May 2017

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826NYC Statement on Family Separation

July 11, 2018

826NYC stands with families....

Meet Our May Volunteer of the Month: Bob Barber

June 2018

Our June Volunteer of the Month, Bob, joined our Williamsburg after-school tutoring cohort last fall and has since been a consistent positive and supp...

Meet One of Our Educators!

May 8, 2018

Today is Teacher Appreciation Day! To celebrate, we at 826NYC would love to share with you an interview from December with Rebecca Eisenberg, educator...

Meet Our May Volunteer of the Month: Leeann Duggan

May 2018

Our May Volunteer of the Month, Leeann, joined us this year in our Park Slope tutoring program and has already had a huge impact on the program and it...

Meet Our April Volunteer of the Month: Nikki Baldauf

April 2018

Our April Volunteer of the Month, Nikki, is one of our all-star publishing volunteers whose recent work can be seen in How the Earth Got Its Drama and...

A Conversation with Keith and Nancy in the Writers’ Room

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Meet Our May Volunteer of the Month: Leeann Duggan

May 2018

Our May Volunteer of the Month, Leeann, joined us this year in our Park Slope tutoring program and has already had a huge impact on the program and it...

Meet our February Volunteer of the Month: Beth Dukes

January 2018

Our February Volunteer of the Month, Beth, has donated her super skills of voice acting, volunteer training, curriculum writing, and more to 826NYC fo...

High School of Fashion Industries Book Release

January 19, 2018

This fall seniors from the High School of Fashion Industries' "Film and Drama" elective participated in an in-schools residency with 82...

Meet our January Volunteer of the Month: Susan Pelzer

January 2018

Susan Pelzer has been volunteering with 826NYC since the fall of 2016. In that time, she has become an invaluable member of our Park Slope Tutoring co...

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Ashanti W.

AGE 15

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When I was younger I moved around a lot between Guyana and New York. I was never in either place for more than two months, three tops. Never really knew which one to consider home until I moved to Guyana to live with my mom permanently. I had lived there in Guyana since I was three, but that all cha ...

Written by Ashanti W.