Honoring Everyone’s Story
Write Around Portland facilitates storytelling in underheard communities.
We bring people together to write, heal, and transform.
Fostering well-being through respectful, shared creative writing experiences. Since 1999.
Write Around YOU
We partner with nonprofits to bring creative writing to underheard communities where people already live and receive services.
better Together
We write together over 6-10 sessions. With fun and thoughtful activities, we write freely without judging ourselves. No preparation or experience required!
Creativity + Care
We share our work aloud (if we want to!) and offer positive, specific feedback. Over time, we learn our strengths as writers and listeners.
Get Involved!
Join us at our Spring Reading & Book Release on Thursday, May 16! We’ll be celebrating the achievements of our amazing writers and the publication of our 61st book!
More Ways You Can Help
Join Inkwell
Sustaining Inkwell donors help us reduce fundraising costs and plan for the future.
Volunteer
Become a facilitator or help us operate our creative programming.
Donate
Your gift will help people access a lifelong tool for healing and transformation.
For us, writing isn’t about the finished product.*
Through guided creative exploration and the sharing of stories, we help people listen across difference. We honor, uplift, and celebrate all voices, especially those that aren’t typically heard in our society. We cultivate empathy and compassion. And we publish new narratives that resist polarization and stereotyping.
*Although we do publish collections of our writers’ work!
Serving the Nonprofit Community since 1999.
Our twist on expressive writing has a profound impact on physical and mental health.
Through programs offered in-person at homeless shelters, prisons, hospitals, treatment centers, senior centers, schools, and other healthcare and social service settings, we reach hundreds of underheard people each year. What could creative writing do for your clients?
“Before this workshop, I believed that I had absolutely no creativity when it came to writing. After only the first night, I realized I had it in me all along.“
Write Around Portland Participant