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Creative Writing Programs includes semester-long creative writing clubs where students write poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Participants give and receive positive feedback and encouragement, polish, edit, and revise their work for publication, and practice public speaking skills in front of friends and family at a book release and reading party. The program also includes literacy tutoring.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: Semester-long after-school creative writing clubs with separate Word Squad and Author’s Lab spring sessions
• Price: Cost: FREE (Word Squad and Author’s Lab)
Word Squad is for younger students in grades 3–6 and runs as an after-school workshop in a playful and encouraging environment with wiggle breaks and playtime. Author’s Lab is for older students in grades 6–12 who have demonstrated an interest in creative writing and meets after school in a judgment-free space. Every participating student has the opportunity to publish writing in an annual professionally printed anthology of student work, and each student decides which pieces to develop further and what gets published, including writing in their own authentic voice, in languages other than English, with cultural terms or slang, or in their preferred dialect of English. Workshops operate as a writing community with two trained facilitators participating fully in each session, and facilitators and volunteers are selected from the communities served.
916 Ink is Sacramento’s arts-based creative writing and literacy nonprofit, and its mission statement is that 916 Ink empowers youth through creative writing. Since 2010, 916 Ink has published more than 325 anthologies. 916 Ink recognizes that communities of color in Sacramento have been left behind by decades of systemic racism and oppression and focuses on advancing justice and racial equity, prioritizing accommodations for participants and staff who may need them, and developing structures for community feedback and culturally appropriate outreach. Read On! is a Science of Reading based literacy tutoring program, and in February 2026, Read On! was recognized with Stanford University’s National Student Support Accelerator Tutoring Program Design Badge for alignment to research backed standards in high-impact tutoring program design.
Last updated June 8, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: Semester-long after-school creative writing clubs with separate Word Squad and Author’s Lab spring sessions
• Price: Cost: FREE (Word Squad and Author’s Lab)
Word Squad is for younger students in grades 3–6 and runs as an after-school workshop in a playful and encouraging environment with wiggle breaks and playtime. Author’s Lab is for older students in grades 6–12 who have demonstrated an interest in creative writing and meets after school in a judgment-free space. Every participating student has the opportunity to publish writing in an annual professionally printed anthology of student work, and each student decides which pieces to develop further and what gets published, including writing in their own authentic voice, in languages other than English, with cultural terms or slang, or in their preferred dialect of English. Workshops operate as a writing community with two trained facilitators participating fully in each session, and facilitators and volunteers are selected from the communities served.
916 Ink is Sacramento’s arts-based creative writing and literacy nonprofit, and its mission statement is that 916 Ink empowers youth through creative writing. Since 2010, 916 Ink has published more than 325 anthologies. 916 Ink recognizes that communities of color in Sacramento have been left behind by decades of systemic racism and oppression and focuses on advancing justice and racial equity, prioritizing accommodations for participants and staff who may need them, and developing structures for community feedback and culturally appropriate outreach. Read On! is a Science of Reading based literacy tutoring program, and in February 2026, Read On! was recognized with Stanford University’s National Student Support Accelerator Tutoring Program Design Badge for alignment to research backed standards in high-impact tutoring program design.
Last updated June 8, 2026.
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