Programs

From field trips to school residency programs, to weekend, and after-school workshops, kids write their paths forward all year long with 826NYC.

Classes for young writers programs for schools
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Classes for young writers

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Write After School: Grades 2-5

Writing and literacy support combine in our engaging, personalized after-school program where students stretch their literary imagination.

    GRADES

  • 2–5
Register now for January

Write After School: Grades 6-8

In our engaging, personalized after-school program, middle school authors develop their skills and read and write in new genres.

    GRADES

  • 6–8
Register now for January

Teen Writers’ Collective

Motivated young writers from around NYC explore the art of writing and literary citizenship in this year-long program.

    GRADES

  • 8–12
Spring Semester – Wait List

Dungeons & Dragons & Writers (grades 5-9)

In weekly meetings throughout the year, adventurous authors plot a course — and a plot — through an unknown land with magical creatures and epic quests.

    GRADES

  • 5–8
  • 6–9
Starts the weekend of January 4

Write Away Workshops: From Stories to Songs

In this 5-week workshop we’ll explore storytelling with Broadway flair: using songs!

    GRADES

  • 1–3
  • 4–5
Starts the weekend of March 1

Write Away Workshops: The 826NYC Survival Guide

In this 5-week workshop we’ll write advice for everything from Roblox to the apocalypse!

    GRADES

  • 1–3
  • 4–5
Starts the weekend of April 26

Write Away Workshops: In a World…

In this 5-week workshop we’ll create new worlds inspired by fairy tales, myths, and legends from around the world!

    GRADES

  • 1–3
  • 4–5

Programs for schools

Write Together

Step behind the secret door for an imaginative, interactive writing field trip with your class! Field trips are 2 hours long and students leave as published authors.

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Young Writers Publish

Turn your classroom into a creative writing lab, and your students into published authors! 826NYC Teaching Artists lead creative writing projects in public schools that culminate in a publication.

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Extended Day

Students become authors with 826NYC’s imaginative and engaging extended day programming. Explore new worlds in storytelling in your school’s after-school program!

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