Creative Writing Workshop Summer Camp!
What? No school? For 3 months!?! Sounds like you’ve got some time on your hands! Beat summer boredom and prevent summer slide with a vacation for your mind. This summer 826DC will hold 3 sessions of Creative Writing Workshop Summer Camp, to include loads of different fun writing activities. Each student will receive a chapbook of all the great writing completed during camp. In addition to daily writing exercises, students will work on a larger, individual piece that will be developed over the 8 sessions to culminate in a multimedia story, narrated by the author. Camp will meet Monday-Thursday, 10am-12noon. Camp is FREE, donations are welcome. Session dates are noted below, and you can click each session for sign-ups.
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Book Release Party was a Blast!
On may 22, 826DC celebrated its 5th student anthology with a release party for The Weight of the Day Surrounds My Body. There was an outpouring of support for the students who did such wonderful work, resulting in the largest crowd we’ve ever seen for one of our book release parties! Students from Ballou High School, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and Wilson High School were on hand to read their work.
Something that Works
by Dave Eggers
On Saturday, April 27, Dave Eggers visited Harriet Tubman Elementary School for 826DC’s Reading All-Stars Program. Click below to read about his experience.
