Meet Mandy Seiner, 826NYC’s Volunteer and Programs Manager! No stranger to 826NYC, Mandy served as an AmeriCorps VISTA in 2018 before working with the New York City Department of Education.…

The 2020-2021 school year challenged us to reimagine programming and how to serve New York City’s young authors best. With several new programs and our transition to the digital space,…

Summer is here, and our volunteers are shining brighter than ever! July’s volunteer of the month, Holly Settoon, reflects on her first year volunteering with our young authors in her…

As the 2020-21 school year comes to a close, 826NYC looks to the future of writing. We are turning the page and reopening the Secret Door for in-person programming in…

Join 826NYC every Saturday from 1-3 PM this summer to spin the Wheel of Fiction! Every spin gets our creative wheels turning as we write a “mad-libs” style short story…

Alyssa Cole is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of romance (historical, contemporary, and sci-fi) and thrillers. Her Civil War-set espionage romance An Extraordinary Union was the…

A few passersby (maybe hundreds) have been duped by the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. storefront like June’s volunteer of the month, Remoy Philip! Luckily, his “aha moment” and a peek…

Named one of The Root’s 100 most influential African Americans of 2020, Leatrice “Elle” McKinney, writing as L.L. McKinney, is an advocate for equality and inclusion in publishing, and the…

We know what you’re thinking; that must be a typo in this month’s volunteer spotlight headline. It’s no mistake, Les Luchter, no to be confused with Superman’s nemesis, is May’s…

David M. Ewalt studies games and technology. He is author of the books Defying Reality: The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution and Of Dice and Men: The Story…