Programs

From field trips to school residency programs, to weekend, after-school, and Zoom classes, 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

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

    GRADES

  • 1–5
  • 6–8
Starts the week of February 28

Write Away Workshops: The Concrete Jungle

Over the course of 5 weeks, we’ll explore the stories that make up New York City and write our own.

    GRADES

  • 1–3
  • 4–5
  • 6–8
Starts the week of February 28

Write Away Workshops: The Concrete Jungle (Zoom)

Over the course of 5 weeks, we’ll explore the stories that make up New York City and write our own.

    GRADES

  • 4–5
  • 6–8
July 17-21

Get into Character: Theater & Playwriting

We’re going from the page to the stage in this theater and playwriting camp! Creative writing meets drama: what could be better?

    GRADES

  • 4–6
July 24-28

Authors, Assemble: Comics & Superheroes

We’re inventing new superheroes, from capes to powers to comics! Writers tell a super story in words and pictures.

    GRADES

  • 4–6
July 31-August 4

It’s ALIVE: Sci-Fi & Circuitry

What would you create if your imagination was the only limit? Let’s find out!

    GRADES

  • 4–6
Spring semester starts February 5

Dungeons & Dragons & Writers

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
February 2-March 30

Write All About It

This spring, young authors will learn all about how our favorite media gets made in Lights, Camera, Writing! — a Zoom class featuring in-person field trips.

    GRADES

  • 4–6
Spring Semester starts in February

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
Starts the week of April 23

Write Away Workshops: Into the Unknown

Over the course of 5 weeks, we’ll explore the stories that make up New York City and write our own.

    GRADES

  • 1–3
  • 4–5
  • 6–8
Starts the week of April 18

Write Away Workshops: Into the Unknown (Zoom)

Over the course of 5 weeks, we’ll explore the stories that make up New York City and write our own.

    GRADES

  • 4–5
  • 6–8

Programs for schools

Write Together

Step behind the secret door for an imaginative, interactive writing field trip with your class! Field trips are 90 minutes long and students leave as published authors.

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Young Writers Publish

Every year we dispatch a Teaching Artist and a team of volunteers into local public schools. In the classroom, the Teaching Artist leads a creative writing project that culminates in a publication or performance.

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