Introducing our new executive director, Dr. Amber Epps! 🥳🎉 Amber is a teacher and an artist, a visionary leader and a get-your-hands-dirty kind of team member—we are so lucky to have her at Write Pittsburgh! Meet Amber in person at our summer picnic on June 29! RSVP at the link in the comments.

Do you have our picnic on your calendar? There will be an open mic, writing games, food, a 50/50 raffle, silent auction items, and more! We would LOVE to see you there. 🥰 Saturday, June 29, 6:30-8:00 p.m., at Borland Green in East Liberty! RSVP now at writepittsburgh.com/tickets.

We had a great time writing together this weekend! Hope to see you at the next event!

🌳 Take a moment to reset and engage in mindfulness and contemplation with Schereéya in the first Write on Site of the year. Maybe you've neglected your writing practice for a while. Maybe you're stuck on a problem in your story or poem. Join us in this restful, creative writing space.

Come to the Write Pittsburgh picnic fundraiser! There will be poetry! And a raffle, and a silent auction, and writing activities! Mark your calendars: June 29, 6:30-8:00 p.m. More details coming soon...

May is going to be a ROCKING month at Write Pittsburgh! Keep your eyes peeled for all of these fantastic happenings. Visit WritePittsburgh.com or linktr.ee/writepgh for more information.

Got poetry or other words to share on stage? Here’s a great opportunity to hear wisdom from an experienced panel—an actor, a storyteller, and a spoken word artist. Practice and get feedback! Sunday, 5/19 from 3-6 PM in the South Hills. Learn more here: www.ironedwordsproductions.com/rehearse-you...

🌳 Take a moment to reset and engage in mindfulness and contemplation with Schereéya in the first Write on Site of the year. Maybe you've neglected your writing practice for a while. Maybe you're stuck on a problem in your story or poem. Join us in this restful, creative writing space.

We're looking for our next executive director! This full time role involves program management and administration, fundraising, donor relations, planning, scheming, dreaming, and more. Are you someone who loves writing and is ready to be a champion for writers? writepittsburgh.com/jobs

Want to help cultivate a strong writing community? Become a Write Pittsburgh board member! Bring your skills as a fundraiser, a leader, a teacher, an organizer, an artist—whatever it is you do best. Apply at writepittsburgh.com/board. Know someone who would make a great board member? Let them know!

TEEN WRITERS! Submissions are open for Starry False Lily Issue 3! The theme? 🎶 MUSIC 🎵 Let your writing sing, baby! Let it make noise! Get philosophical. Get discordant. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid. Deadline: May 24. Submission info at writepittsburgh.com/starryfalselily

We're hosting a writing career event for teens on 5/16, and we're looking for: screenwriters, speechwriters, food writers, sports writers, graphic novelists, librarians, ghostwriters, copywriters, and more. Interested? Email [email protected]. Asynch or virtual participation. Volunteer event.

Only a few days left to sign up for this memory-writing workshop. events.humanitix.com/the-remember...

Our memories make us—but what about all the things we have forgotten? Join Sharon Fagan McDermott and Write Pittsburgh's interim executive director M. Christine Benner Dixon, co-authors of Millions of Suns, for a 3-week workshop on memory, forgetting, and writing. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction.

NEW ISSUE ALERT!! 🤩 From algebra to aliens, from new worlds to old ones, these stirring poems explore the implications of being thinking, breathing creatures in an infinite universe. 👽🐦🔬 Let yourself be dazzled by three teen poets in Starry False Lily, Vol. 2: www.starryfalselily.com/issue-two #SFF

What do the books Slaughterhouse Five, Our Wives Under the Sea, Spaceman of Bohemia, Outlander, Kindred, & A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court have in common? They're some of the books we'll be discussing in the upcoming @writepittsburgh.bsky.social workshop, Write On Time. Join us!

Kicking off the new year with another speculative fiction workshop series from @writepittsburgh.bsky.social ! I'll be teaching this one, about time and its uses in fiction (from using time as a literary device to literal time travel). It's a 6-week series on Sunday nights, ONLINE. #writingcommunity

Book bans tell young writers that some stories aren’t worth listening to. Our mission is to amplify voices and empower writers! You can help! givebutter.com/writepgh

I spend a good part of my time working to support these efforts! Write Pittsburgh does an amazing job of reaching teens where they are and recognizing their agency and autonomy. We’re counting on this to set up the next generation of kickass writers who know the power of their own voices!

Book bans tell young writers that some stories aren’t worth listening to. Our mission is to amplify voices and empower writers! You can help! givebutter.com/writepgh

Got plans for Giving Tuesday? How about funding freedom of expression efforts? We're doing the work in schools, in the jail, in our online workshops. We invite you to join us so that every voice gets a chance to speak!

#GivingTuesday is just a week away! We would love it if you added us to your list for year-end giving. We're working hard to empower writers and amplify their voices, even in the face of incarceration, book bans, and other enormous challenges. Join us in this important work! givebutter.com/writepgh

#GivingTuesday is just a week away! We would love it if you added us to your list for year-end giving. We're working hard to empower writers and amplify their voices, even in the face of incarceration, book bans, and other enormous challenges. Join us in this important work! givebutter.com/writepgh

Did you hear? ✨ We've extended the deadline for our Fall/Winter Issue: STEAM & Sci-Fi! Poems, essays, and fiction from writers ages 13-18! Any writing re: math, science, engineering, etc.—including sci-fi material—is welcome. Submissions due by Nov. 30: www.starryfalselily.com/fall2023

Friends! For NaNoWriMo, I'll be hosting @writepittsburgh.bsky.social 's online Open Studio hours on Sunday nights (though the people hosting on Mondays are pretty awesome too). It's free but registration is required. Visit writepittsburgh.com/calendar to learn more! #writingcommunity

Call for submissions from teen writers! We're looking for your #SFF poems and stories, your essays on climate change, your robot romances . . . all of it! Deadline is Oct. 31!!! www.starryfalselily.com/fall2023

A submission call for TEEN writers of sci-fi poetry, short stories, and STEM-related essays, from @writepittsburgh.bsky.social. Open through 10/31. www.starryfalselily.com/fall2023

Did you know that teen writers can join our free weekly workshops **at any time** during the year? We offer Rainbow Writers (for LGBTQIA2S+ teens), Rule Breakers (for poets), and Storytellers (for fiction writers). Teens can join one or more workshop. Apply: www.writepittsburgh.com/teen-applica...

THIS FRIDAY!!! We still have a few spots left in our spooky, online, interactive writing workshop for @writepittsburgh.bsky.social ! Join us! #writingcommunity

There's still time to sign up for this trio of events!

Happy second day of #preptober! Join me and @writepittsburgh.bsky.social for a weekend d of spooky writing!

Last night’s Walk & Write program involved headlamps! Write the Stream: Stream of Consciousness Writing in Frick Park, Pittsburgh - So Fun. The next Walk & Write is October 13. Write the Neighborhood: Morningside with guest writer Joy Katz. www.eventbrite.com/e/write-the-...

Join me and @WritePittsburgh for a weekend of spooky writing!

Hey #writingcommunity, on Friday the 13th, I'll be leading this online workshop for Write Pittsburgh's Spooktacular weekend! Join us for a seance-themed historical fiction workshop! #amwriting #historicalfiction #writingworkshop #fiction #ghosts #spookyseason #scarystories #seance t.co/JnEGVcLGaC

Do you love historical fiction AND ghosts? Do you like walking in nature AND cemeteries? Check out our Weekend Spooktacular coming up October 13-15! Events for teens & adults! (All teen activities are free.) www.eventbrite.com/cc/weekend-s...

Faraway friends, check out these virtual historical fiction workshops for teens and adults. There will be ghosts! Pittsburgh pals, come take a write-and-stroll through the Penn Forest Natural Burial Park. It's an incredibly beautiful space.

Do you love historical fiction AND ghosts? Do you like walking in nature AND cemeteries? Check out our Weekend Spooktacular coming up October 13-15! Events for teens & adults! (All teen activities are free.) www.eventbrite.com/cc/weekend-s...

Write Pittsburgh is proud to present "Bumfuzzled: Speculative Writing Exercises to Stretch the Imagination." This booklet, written by our very own teen intern Vesna, is designed to get your creative juices flowing. Get your copy in from our store: www.writepittsburgh.com/store

I want everyone to know about Write Pittsburgh. ❤️ so much good stuff going on!! Free creative writing workshops for teens. An online youth writing magazine. Free and not-free workshops for adults. Writing community. Please love this organization with me! @writepittsburgh.bsky.social

Yes! It's us. We're still learning how to navigate this thing, but we just wanted to let you know, if you haven't heard, we're open for submissions! Please spread the word. And contributors, literary magazines, friends--give us a follow so we can follow back!

My books have been banned in Florida so often I’ve lost count. But this isn’t happening only in FL. If you want to fight book bans in the US, go to PEN.org/action You can help from afar!

Attention young writers (ages 13-18): Submissions are open for Starry False Lily! ✨This issue is STEAM and Sci-fi themed. Essay on photosynthesis? 🌿☀️ Poem about Fibonacci spirals? 🐚🤩 Robot romance? 🤖❤️ No generative-AI-assisted submissions, please. www.starryfalselily.com/fall2023

We have 3 amazing teen workshops coming up! These workshops are FREE to all middle and high school students ages 13–18. We meet once a month in person and the remaining weeks online. Drop in when you can! Come as you are! What are we offering?! Read on...🧵

Got myth? Our upcoming adult writing workshop, led by @sravaniwrites.bsky.social, will dive into mythology and fairytale in speculative fiction. Make something new from something old! Sept. 7–28, 7–9 p.m. $75 (discounts available). Tickets at ReinventingSpec.eventbrite.com

Hi, writers! We have free writing workshops for teens in Southwestern Pennsylvania…3 weekly workshops: Rainbow Writers, Storytellers, & Rule Breakers. WritePittsburgh.com We do adult workshops too—but the grown folx have to buy tickets. (Pic of a Lake Erie lighthouse is just because it’s pretty.)