826NYC is happy to announce the inaugural launch of the David Zwirner Books & 826NYC Literary Prize for New York City high school students ages 16 and over. Students from…

Crystal Worrell is 20 years old and was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She attended Leon M.Goldstein High school for the Sciences and is currently entering her senior year of undergrad…

1. How did you first get involved with 826NYC and why did you decide to volunteer? I knew about 826 from years back, when it first started. Then, when I…

Sabrina Alli is the newest member of the 826NYC team and will be running our newest program, the 826NYC Writers’ Room in East Harlem. She started teaching in 2001, after graduating with…

Yesterday we held the book launch for Bright Blue Sky and Gray Silence at the High School of Fashion Industries. Over 150 students, their friends and family members, and teachers…

1. How did you first get involved with 826NYC and why did you decide to volunteer? Time’s really beginning to blur, so I had to look it up–July 2014! I’d been living in…

We are thrilled to have received the beautiful finished copies of “Bright Blue Sky and Gray Silence,” an anthology that gathers 152 students’ writing from our Young Authors Book Project at…

On May 17th, in celebration of the 826NYC Writers’ Room, our first Manhattan outpost, we partnered with Ghostly and Warby Parker for Super Kids, Serious Authors, an evening of 826NYC students’ writing read…

1. How did you first get involved with 826NYC and why did you decide to volunteer? In all of my time working in education in New York City, I have spent most of…

Josh and his brother received their Scrabble superpowers when a vat of toxic sludge was spilled at an otherwise uneventful family game night. Help him supplement those superpowers with some…