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…

On Saturday May 14, Owen and the X-Tiles will be playing in Scrabble for Cheaters and cheating for the children because The Truth is Out There (probably in a book).…

I can’t remember exactly what year I first volunteered. I don’t think 826NYC was very old at the time. A small but redoubtable person named Miriam was in charge of…