Just like NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program, National Novel Writing Month's main program is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. Unlike the YWP, adult participants are unable to choose their own word-count goals. Their goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
826 National is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing at seven locations across the country. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and in-schools programs – all free of charge – for children, classes, and schools with particular interest or particular need. 826 is especially committed to supporting teachers, offering services and resources for English language learners, and publishing student work. Several locations offer unique retail experiences as well.
Teen Ink is a national teen magazine, book series, and website devoted entirely to teenage writing and art. Distributed through classrooms by English teachers, Creative Writing teachers, Journalism teachers and art teachers around the country, Teen Ink magazine offers some of the most thoughtful and creative work generated by teens and has the largest distribution of any publication of its kind. They have no staff writers or artists; they depend completely on submissions from teenagers nationwide for our content.
Mighty Writers is a Philadelphia-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit designed to awaken school-age city kids to the wonders of writing. Our plan is to open free-to-all storefront writing centers in the city’s neighborhoods, connecting city students with emerging and established writers and developing confidence and self-expression through one-on-one tutoring in fun and dynamic neighborhood spaces.
The Writing Teacher Blog's goal is to increase the quality of students’ writing skills by sharing knowledge among experts and practitioners. They share theory, practice, and research through articles, feedback from our readers, and a numbers of web events in the planning as we launch. They have teachers, writing assessment experts, academics, and others write about what they’ve tried, what works, how to implement ideas, and current theories on the subject of writing. They also plan to include lots of ideas regarding ways to get students writing more, since that’s the surest way to improve writing.
Word Street's mission is to provide a supplemental educational environment that encourages the creativity and enhances the reading and writing skills of learners in Pittsfield and Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Today Word Street has a volunteer staff of about thirty dedicated writers and teachers who love working with young people. The Writing Center has a library, a hi-speed internet computer lab, quiet comfortable spaces to work and study, and a publishing center where young people can discover their voices and a lifelong love for language and literature.
Do you love libraries? Bask in books? Create comics? Seize upon story ideas? If this sounds like you, then the Young Writers' Club would like to invite you to celebrate all things literary by becoming a member. Whether you live near their headquarters in North Vancouver, British Columbia, or halfway around the world, if you’re a fan of the literary life then you’re invited to join them. The goals of the club are to exercise imagination, learn more about the craft of creative writing, and to have fun with other people who are walking the writer’s path.
