Season's Greetings from WBS! Poem by Aldrin Badiola, 11th grader at @baltcityschools.bsky.social Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Illustration by Lexi Nilson.

We're $3,517 away from hitting today's goal of $5K, which will be matched by an anonymous donor! Make your gift at bit.ly/SupportWBS We're so grateful for your support of Baltimore's young writers!

Donate today and #GivingTuesday to double your gift! bit.ly/SupportWBS

This fall, we launched two Writing Clubs at @baltcityschools.bsky.social Sinclair Lane Elementary School. We're having a great time working with their 3rd/4th and 5th grade writers this year!

Congratulations to our inaugural spooky story champions, @daniellevalore.bsky.social, @natebrownbrown.bsky.social, and Andrea Lewis! 👻✏️🏆 And a huge thank you to our event sponsors, Blue Pit BBQ & Peabody Heights Brewery!🍂

TOMORROW! Get your tickets here bit.ly/spookyWBS

This year, we're running 12 Writing Clubs in 6 @baltcityschools.bsky.social! We're so excited for this year of writing together.

@writersinbmore.bsky.social does a lot of great things for young writers in Baltimore: please support them if you can!

High school writers! We've got some spots available in this workshop series, which begins this Tuesday, Oct. 14. Sign up at bit.ly/spookyworkshops

Please join us for our Spooky Story Spectacular, an evening inspired by our beloved camp tradition of Ghost Story Night! Purchase your ticket at bit.ly/spookyWBS (case-sensitive) This event is 21+. All proceeds go to WBS.

Please join us for our Spooky Story Spectacular, an evening inspired by our beloved camp tradition of Ghost Story Night! Purchase your ticket at bit.ly/spookyWBS (case-sensitive) This event is 21+. All proceeds go to WBS.

I got mail today. 🥹 @writersinbmore.bsky.social

The WBS Store is here! You can purchase current/back issues of anthologies, Writers Studio t-shirts, water bottles, tote bags, and more at writersinbaltimoreschools.org/store Check it out!

OFF THE HINGES: SWINGS THAT NEVER STOP is here! Our 2025 YouthWorks interns created this anthology of work by our youngest writers, members of our 4th - 8th grade Writing Clubs in @baltcityschools.bsky.social. Order your copy here! bit.ly/WBSbook

Ahhhh! @writersinbmore.bsky.social this weekend!

On Sat., Sept. 13, join us at the Baltimore Book Fest for WE ARE NOT NUMBERS. Journalist Pam Bailey and poet Zeina Azzam will present an anthology of writing by Gaza's youth, and our young writers will read personal selections from the book. Thanks to @redemmas.org for hosting!

We hope to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival for the launch of OFF THE HINGES: SWINGS THAT NEVER STOP, an anthology of work by our youngest @baltcityschools.bsky.social writers created by our YouthWorks interns! Sunday, September 14 / 1 PM / @redemmas.org stage

9/14 @ 1pm: @writersinbmore.bsky.social launches their new anthology of youth writing, "Off The Hinges: Swings That Never Stop" withfriends.co/event/267296...

We're excited for another year of creating stories and poems together, @baltcityschools.bsky.social young writers!

At 1pm, we're bringing the voices of Gaza's youth to the Baltimore Book Festival, in a special collaboration between We Are Not Numbers, poet Zeina Azzam, and @writersinbmore.bsky.social: withfriends.co/event/266731...

I’m gonna be there!

We hope you'll join us on Saturday at @redemmas.org!

We're en route to Washington College thanks to you all! Your gifts, your shares, your enthusiasm for giving Baltimore's young writers a dedicated space to hone their craft—we're so grateful ✏️💕

Thank you for welcoming our YouthWorks interns, Black Classics Press! After spending the month designing an anthology, our interns got a peek at the next step—printing, binding, and packing up to ship!

Thank you for welcoming our #YouthWorks interns, Black Classics Press! After spending the month designing an anthology, our interns got a peek at the next step—printing, binding, and packing up to ship!

We're so close! Today is the final day help send 30 young writers to our camp at Washington College! This week-long, residential camp is FREE to Baltimore City students, which is made possible because of your gifts. Thank you for helping us raise the remaining $1,576! bit.ly/2025WBScamp

Homestretch! Tomorrow is our final day of fundraising. Donate here ➡️ bit.ly/2025WBScamp We're so grateful for the gifts and shares that have gotten us this far! 💕✏️

Join author Rosey Lee in supporting our Writers Studio! You can make a gift via her personal fundraising campaign at bit.ly/WBSRoseyLee

$2,669 left to reach today's matching goal! bit.ly/2025WBScamp We're grateful for all your donations and shares!

Preparing for our visit from Erica Green, White House correspondent for The New York Times!

We're just $2,942 from hitting our matching goal! bit.ly/2025WBScamp

We're making out way toward $5K! We've raised $632 so far today. Let's go! bit.ly/2025WBScamp

Did not realize they were on bsky now! bsky.app/profile/writ...

Good morning! So far this Matching Monday, we've raised $250, which doubles to $500! $4,750 to go to hit our matching goal! bit.ly/2025WBScamp

Our ✨ BIG ✨ Matching Monday (& Tuesday!) starts tomorrow! Make your gift here bit.ly/2025WBScamp

We're just $407 away from hitting the halfway mark toward our goal of $30K for the Baltimore Young Writers Summer Studio! Let's see if we can make it to $15K today! If you're able, make a gift here bit.ly/2025WBScamp Repost! Share with your friends!

We had a great day with Les Carpenter, Olympics reporter for the Washington Post! Les shared stories about interviewing Michael Jordan and meeting Muhammad Ali, and our #youthworks interns asked Les questions about his career trajectory and favorite interview subjects. Thank you, Les!

We're $345 away from reaching today's matching goal! Make your gift here bit.ly/2025WBScamp ✏️💕✏️💕✏️💕

We're $720 away from hitting our match goal today! Every gift and repost helps! Make your gift here bit.ly/2025WBScamp

Double your impact by making a gift on Monday, July 21! bit.ly/2025WBScamp

READ ✨ CRAFT ✨ EDIT ✨ REPEAT Take a peek at the work our @youthworksbaltimore interns did during weeks 1 and 2 of the Baltimore Young Writers Summer Studio! #wbswritersstudio #youthworks #summer Support our Studio by making a gift here! bit.ly/2025WBScamp

We're grateful for @csittenfeld.bsky.social's support of the Baltimore Young Writers Summer Studio! Join Curtis in helping us offer a FREE, week-long residential writing camp for 30 young writers from Baltimore. Make your gift at bit.ly/2025WBScamp

Thanks to your help, we reached out matching goal yesterday! This puts us 1/3 of the way toward our overall goal! We're $19,881 away from hitting $30K. We're so grateful for every gift and every share ✏️💕

So far, we've raised $650 today, which means we're just $350 away from hitting today's matching goal! bit.ly/2025WBScamp

TODAY! Double your impact by making a gift. And help us spread the word by reposting!

Double your impact by making a gift on Monday, July 14! bit.ly/2025WBScamp

WBS was an integral part of my high school experience! if you can, consider making a gift today to help young people have the experience i had... thanks! 🫶🏾

We're a quarter of the way there! Make your gift today bit.ly/2025WBScamp

So far, we've raised $7510, which makes us 25% of the way toward of goal of raising $30K! Help us send 30 young writers to camp by making a gift today bit.ly/2025WBScamp

We kicked off Week 1 of #YouthWorks with a visit by @doramalech.bsky.social, editor-in-chief of @hopkinsreview.bsky.social, and @natebrownbrown.bsky.social, editor-at-large of American Short Fiction!