Write Together

826NYC hosts classes across New York City for Write Together: an interactive writing experience that encourages creative expression, explore the elements of storytelling and strengthens writing skills. Elementary-aged classes collaborate on illustrated children’s books, middle schoolers choose their own adventure, and high schoolers learn the art of memoir writing during a fast-paced and whimsical 90-minute narrative program.

Sign up to be contacted for a Write Together session!

The Write Together program will remain virtual in the Fall 2021 semester, as we will continue to bring the magic and excitement of storytelling right to your classroom! Fill out the application form above and we’ll reach out as field trip dates become available.

 
Please email jesusdaniel@826nyc.org with any questions.

All the ways we can write together:
 

Storytelling & Bookmaking

Grades 1 – 9

Students will, as a class, pen a brand new, totally original story. With the help of 826NYC’s staff and volunteer storytellers, the class will create a new character, give the story a setting, and write as a group until the story reaches the climax. Then, students will write their own endings to the story. Each student leaves as a newly-minted published author, with their very own copy of the group’s book.

Choose Your Own Adventure

Grades 6 – 12

Students explore the effect that characters’ choices have on the story. They create an original choose-your-own-adventure story, follow its twists and turns, and write its multiple conclusions. At the end of the trip, each student takes home a copy of the class’ adventures, bound together in a pint-sized book.

What’s Your Story? Memoir Field Trip

Grades 9 – 12

It’s never too early to start your memoir! Students explore storytelling through a nonfiction lens. Students explore a colorful array of approaches to the genre (from Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home” to Beyonce’s Formation), then dive into telling their own stories. By the end of the program, students will have produced a class anthology of mini-memoirs in prose and poetry — a great first step towards a stunning personal statement for college and scholarship applications!