Write Around PDX

Write Around Portland (writearound.org) amplifies voices, builds community, and changes lives through the power of writing. Since 1999, we’ve partnered with 278 agencies to hold free 10-week creative writing workshops for 8,800 adults and youth. We've also published 58 anthologies and held 265 public readings reaching almost 17,000 people. We do this work because we know writing is a powerful tool for expression, healing, and the realization of the dignity of oneself and others. Our work is grounded in our core values – respect, writing, and community.

• Write Around Portland is comprised of a talented, dedicated, and diverse community of workshop participants, volunteers, staff, board, and supporters. We are committed to understanding and changing historical legacies of inequity and patterns of oppression – read about our racial equity work at writearound.org/about.