As part of the Write Around Portland experience, every participant gets their very own journal. We always write by hand in our workshops, and journals provide each person with a private space to be creative and vulnerable. Participants are also welcome to take the journal with them and keep it after the workshop ends. We […]

Since Write Around Portland began in 1999, we have published 60 professionally designed and printed books of workshop writing. Each time a book is published, participants who submitted get a free copy. We also distribute copies to local booksellers (such as Powell’s and Broadway Books), and we place recent copies on the website for purchase.

For our traditional writing workshop programming, it takes two! Organizations, that is. Each year, we collaborate with around 20 social service agencies to bring our creative writing workshops to the people they serve. While our workshops usually run for 10 weeks, every partner has different needs – which means our workshops can take on dramatically

Results from our 2023 survey Recently, we sent out a quick 3-question survey to our donors and volunteers asking a few questions to help us improve our communications. We were thrilled at the number and quality of responses. Thank you to everybody who took the time to give us some feedback! (If you haven’t yet

Our workshops are built around a model of freewriting – but what does that mean? At Write Around Portland, we host creative writing workshops that are unique from most other approaches. Through decades of experience and facilitating thousands of writing workshops, we know that the heart of the model depends on freewriting and being in

what makes a write around portland reading so special? Some wander in alone. Some cluster in groups, their nervousness showing in the way they giggle and cling to each other’s arms. The soft, inner illumination of someone’s face as they thumb through a book, first at the table of contents to find their pen name

Find Write around portland anthologies on the shelves of your favorite bookstores For two decades, Write Around Portland has teamed up with some of the best Portland bookstores to diversify Oregon’s literary arts. Our free creative writing workshops bring in Portland writers from all walks of life – many of whom have never written in