Tuesday /
July 27, 2010
Rent a nationally-acclaimed author for a private evening with your book club by raising $1,000 to benefit 826 Boston’s free youth writing programs. Schedule your event with
Julia Glass, National Book Award winner,
Tom Perrotta, Oscar-nominated novelist and screenwriter,
Donald Hall, former United States Poet Laureate, or
Jim Shepard, National Book Award Story Prize-winner.
Not part of a book club? Enlist your bookish neighbors, friends and family to help support Boston’s young writers. Register your book club with program co-sponsor Harvard Book Store and receive discounts and special benefits.
For more information, click
here
Sunday /
July 11, 2010
We hope everybody is having a great summer so far, but if you're becoming weary of the beach, never fear: writing is near! The August workshop calendar is available here. Workshops like "My First Galactic Empire," "Blogging 101," and "Guerilla Poetry" will be available for students between the ages of 6 and 18 in all different genres and topics. Sessions are scheduled 10:00-12:00 and 1:00-3:00 each day from August 2-5 and August 9-12.
Please email us if you would like to be added to the parent mailing list or want more information.
Thursday /
July 1, 2010
We are overjoyed to announce our two latest student publications! We Turned Back to See Where We Came From is a professionally-bound, full-color collection of original photography and writing that is the fruit of an eight-month partnership between 826 Boston and the students of Greater Egleston High School . Read excerpts from We Turned Back here and here.
Small Things Can Grow Tall is an engrossing series of autobiographical vignettes by Michelle Boyle's 11th graders of The English High School. We recommend Small Things, which was inspired by Sherman Alexie's essay "Indian Education," to fans of pithy, hilarious memoir. Sherman Alexie, who wrote the foreword for the book, says, "these stories by the young writers from 826 Boston feel like miracles..." To whet your appetite, read the foreword or an excerpt.
Both books are now available for purchase at 826 Boston and in our online store!
Thursday /
July 1, 2010
We're proud to announce that at the Spring Benefit we awarded $7,000 in scholarships to five deserving Boston Public School seniors! The winners are Kennysha Wrencher and Shelle Gaye of The English High School, Raslyn Richardson and Jessenia Nunez of Greater Egleston High School, and Aisha Dhubow (pictured right) of Monument High School. Congrats to all our scholarship recipients!
Aisha Dhubow, winner of a $2,000 scholarship, has served as a teen tutor with 826 Boston this school year. In her winning essay, Aisha wrote, "Soon after I began working with these students... I began to have a burning passion to be an educator." She will study early childhood education this fall at The University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.
We're also proud to welcome back past scholarship winners, Edwin Gonzalez and Dinela Gjecka, who have returned as part-time staff in our Summer Fellows program. Many thanks to Holly McGrath and David Bruce, who are major sponsors of our scholarship program and also made this new fellowship program possible. We're grateful, too, to Jaime and Chris Reid for founding and continuing to support our scholarship program.
Thursday /
July 1, 2010
On Tuesday, May 18th over 175 guests celebrated 826 Boston's newest student authors at our Spring Benefit. Our guests enjoyed spectacular views of Boston Harbor, live music, student readings, and conversations on writing with acclaimed authors Andre Dubus III, Julian Houston, Sue Miller, and poet Charles Coe.
Student authors from Greater Egleston High School and English High School proudly read their work from We Turned Back to See Where We Came From and Small Things Can Grow Tall. 826 Boston also awarded $7,000 in scholarships to five high school seniors from Boston Public Schools.
View two short films about each project here and check out photographs from the evening here.
Thank you to our donors who contributed over $25,000 to 826 Boston. Help us reach our goal of $35,000 by donating to 826 Boston's Spring Benefit by clicking the link below.
Or you can donate by sending a check payable to 826 Boston, Inc. to 3035 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA 02119.
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