Write A House

Want to improve your skills writing about place? Detroit-based author Courtney Balestier's has an online workshop next month through Catapult.

Each session will consider one point of view with a reading, lecture, and group discussion, culminating in a final writing exercise. Our goal is to explore how to use the full extent of a place—its physical, emotional, and psychological elements—to better effect in our own writing.

2-Week Online Craft Seminar: How to Write Place - Courtney Balestier “Each of us is an atlas of sorts,” Rebecca Solnit wrote. Place, then—where we are, where we've been, where we are going—is crucial to our writing....

Bon Appétit Magazine has a great story by our second awardee, Liana, about becoming a home owner, and a home chef, in Detroit.

I Won a House in Detroit Then Cooked My Way into a Home After years of reporting stints in and out of the country, I had a home and kitchen of my own.

Want to help kids? 826 Michigan is looking for volunteers for a couple of in-school projects coming up in May. They would be grateful for your support in Detroit!

Voyageur, 12 grade, Tuesdays (5/8 - 5/29) 8:30am - 10:30am
Cass, 9th grade, Fridays (5/11 - 6/8) 8am - 10am
Bunche, 4th grade, Mondays (5/7 - 5/21) Time -To be determined

They ask that volunteers spend some time workshopping with students (usually during the revision process) in small or 1-on-1 groups. Students love to hear about how and why artists do what they do. Email [email protected] for more info.

Young creative thinkers across our three cities inspire us each day through thoughtful writing, working together with classmates, getting to know students in other cities, showing tutors that they have what it takes to see a project through and welcoming help along the way.

With your help, indeed all 3,265 of them are on their way to building a better world. Will you join us and make a meaningful contribution this year to fuel students' academic and creative power in 2018? A gift in any amount makes an impact. If you so choose, donate here: 826michigan.org/donate.

Save the date! Colson Whitehead will be speaking at Marygrove on April 13. Our friends at The Tuxedo Project Detroit have been getting ready all month with an Underground Railroad book club. If you have not already, get a copy of the book (Pages Bookshop is a great local option) and we will see you at the talk.

It's gonna be a busy week here at The Tuxedo Project: We kick off a new creative writing workshop at Marygrove on Thursday AND a reading & discussion group of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad right here at the house this weekend. Will you be joining us? Details & sign up here: https://t.e2ma.net/message/5lhnmd/hb5zrib