youth writing workshops
Chapter 510 offers free or low cost writing workshops for young writers ages 8-18, and we prioritize registration to Black, brown, and queer youth and families. Our programs are taught by experienced teaching artists and include our annual picture book writing class for elementary students, our fiction writing class for BIPOC middle school students, and digital storytelling and poetry for high schoolers, among others. Most of our programs culminate in a beautiful published book or audio production.
Students are also paired with caring writing mentors from our community who help each young writer get from first draft to publication.
If you don’t see a workshop that you can sign up for today, join our mailing list below so you are the first to know when registration opens.
Currently, we run workshops after school in the fall and spring for 10–12 weeks. We currently do not offer summer workshops and camps.
Vibe Check: An Audio Storytelling Program For Teens (Fall 2026—Spring 2027)
How are art and creative practice an antidote for challenges you face? When mental health and wellness are buzzwords, what are actual tools to navigate an overwhelming world?
Go on a journey to explore the role creativity and the arts play in health and wellness and document stories from your community around important issues that matter to you in our teen audio storytelling program.
Writing Home Outside & Within: A poetry Writing and Publishing Program for Middle School Students
In Writing Home Outside and Within, we will co-create a space where you will be able to unapologetically and wholeheartedly write original poems where you speak your truth about the idea of home and what it means to you.
The Ink Tank: A Graphic Storytelling Club for 4th-5th graders
Join us for a fun and creative graphic storytelling workshop with local children’s book author and teaching artist, Tiffany “Ms. Tee” Golden.
