Write to Right®

We need writing now more than ever. 

Using Write to Right's® own curriculum, our free of charge, in-person workshops provide people with the tools they need to advocate for and communicate about the causes and issues they believe in. Students leave the workshops with a culminating anthology of their favorite pieces written during the workshop.

Write to Right® teaches under-resourced communities creative writing as a tool towards self-transformation and social change. We focus on using creative writing as a means for social justice to empower others to make change in their communities. Through Write to Right’s own curriculum, students are taught how to write and express themselves, creating a culminating anthology at the end of each workshop. While creative writing is critical and life changing in that it develops self expression, communication, and imagination in students, many communities lack access to workshops to learn how to write. The Write to Right experience works to fill that gap by providing engaging, fun, and crucial teaching to students, enabling them to flourish.

Year-long programs (in person, weekly): Brigadier-General Library in Silver Spring Maryland, Gaithersburg Library in Gaithersburg Maryland, Barnard Elementary School in DC, Garrison Elementary School in DC, Casa Inglar in Barranquila, Colombia

Summer programs: Brigadier General Library, Gaithersburg Library, Seoul Academy South Korea. Upcoming workshop at Gaithersburg Library August 18-22, 2025. Register on our website!

We also hold regular open-mics at local bookstores to empower our students to use their voice and bring their writing and powerful messages to others.





The Story Behind Write to Right: In May of 2022, for Tara's Eagle Project in Scouts, she created a curriculum and taught creative writing workshops to students at an underserved elementary school in DC. Watching their growth over the course of the workshops was incredible, and she could see their writing and their passion for writing develop. While they had first been so reluctant to write, by the end of the workshops, the students were eagerly writing down and bringing to life memories, experiences, plays, poetry, and stories. The experience opened her eyes to the power of writing in building self-expression and communication, especially in youth. She also had the opportunity to work with Free Minds in February of 2022, a nonprofit that helps incarcerated persons interact with poetry. This work gave her insight into how writing can lead to positive change in communities, so she created Write to Right teach underserved students to use creative writing to both imagine and pursue the change they seek.