YouthWrite

Photo of a woman holding a guitar with the text "New Music!" "the Historian, Album by Miranda Martini" and "Out June 21"

NEW MUSIC!

The amazing Miranda Martini is releasing her latest #album, "the Historian" on June 21! 🎉 #Stream it wherever you listen to your music 🎧

And join Miranda at her launch party @ 7pm, June 21 at Ironwood Stage & Grill, #Calgary.

Reservations: 403-269-5581 or reservations@ironwoodstage.ca

Pictures of books and book pages with the text "Make A Book Day."

Happy Make A Book Day!

Today, we celebrate all the people who pour so much care and time into crafting the books we love. 📖 To everyone who has made a book — including our YouthWriters —congratulations! You're amazing!! 🎉

#WritingCommunity #YouthWriters #Calgary #YYC #YEG #writer #books

Four photos of teachers helping students with the text "Thank A Teacher Day!"

It's Thank A Teacher Day! 🍎

Dear #teachers, we appreciate all that you do and all that we learn from you. 🧡 A special thank you to all the amazing instructors who teach at our camps — YouthWrite wouldn't be YouthWrite without you!

#WritingCommunity #YouthWriters #Calgary #YYC #YEG

To the women and girls and those who identify and those who support! 💪 😍

Spring Arts Bucks for Youth Partner: SkirtsAfire Festival!

This year's festival runs March 6-16 at various locations in #Edmonton and has many workshops and shows that are part of the SABY program! Get your youth arts discounts!
www.youthwrite.com/saby
#YegArts #SABY #YouthArts #SkirtsAfire

Spring Arts Bucks for Youth logo

Description of how to use Spring Arts Bucks for Youth. Each SABY costs $20 and when you use them to pay for youth programming at participating arts organization in Edmonton, you get a discount (around 20%)

Participating arts organizations: Edmonton Poetry Festival SNAP Gallery Masani Dance Rapid Fire Theatre SkirtsAFire Festival YouthWrite

Special Announcement:
Introducing the SABY: Spring Arts Bucks for Youth!

Use SABYs and SAVE in #Edmonton when you register for youth programs at participating orgs!

Try all the arts using SABYs
www.youthwrite.com/saby

#yeg #arts #youthartists #teachers #parents #discount

Brightly coloured image stating to check back into this page at 4:30pm to see about the special announcement

We thought this #yeg cold snap would be the perfect time to get you excited for spring.
At 4:30pm (MDT) on Feb 05 tune into our socials to find out what is going to change the way youth do spring in Edmonton!
#youth
#youthartists
#youthactors
#youthwriters
#youthdancers
#teachers

Congratulations 👏👏👏👏👏

Congratulations to YouthWrite Alumna, @laurensealwrites.bsky.social !

Image of 4 Books on Libby App. Norther Light by Kazim Ali, Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor, British Columbiana by Josie Teed, and audiobook Tell Everyone On This Train I Love Them by Maeve Higgins

It's #LibraryShelfieDay!
Since it's been a wee bit blustery for trips to the library, Tania thought she'd post her Libby shelf! We'd love to see your #LibraryShelfie!
Edmonton Public Library!

Images of teens writing with the text "Are you a teen who dreams of being a writer" and the logo for the 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, co-presented with The Walrus.

Young writers, the Youth Short Story category of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award is now open! Submit your story by February 9 for a chance to compete. For details, visit thewalrus.ca/afna.
@thewalrus.ca
#YouthWriters
#WritingCommunity
#Teachers
🍁

Still room to register for Winter Wordplay 2025!
Follow the QR code to register, or visit: www.youthwrite.com/winter-wordp...

#YouthWriters
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCamp

The tally is in, folks! We MADE OUR GOAL! So many thanks to all of you who put the "you" in YouthWrite! 🫶🙏💥🎆💝🎊🎉
Thank you for helping the dreams of young writers to come true! And if you're still hoping to give, it's never too late to pay it forward - every dollar counts and is so appreciated!

We at YouthWrite are so grateful to our supporters and fans. It's been a tough year, and your financial contributions are quite honestly saving the day! Thank you!
🥰😘🫶🙏
Still time before December 31st to give to help us reach our goal! Or send a kid to camp (as a Christmas gift!) 🎅

Our hearts glow with gratitude! Thanks, supporters, for bringing us closer to our goal! 😍🤩👏🌠🎊🎉
Still time to send a kid to camp - makes a great holiday gift!
Your donation helps make YouthWrite shiny and bright!! 🎄

Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis

YouthWrite staff is always up for a book challenge! 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
Day 17

Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

YouthWrite staff is always up for a book challenge! 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
Day 16

Digital graphic features the cover of the fall issue of Best Books For Kids & Teens magazine. On the magazine cover, a young Black girl rests her head on a stack of colourful books.

The Canada Post strike has delayed the distribution of the fall issue of Best Books for Kids & Teens. While we wait, we are making the digital edition available for all!

Check it out 👉 www.bookcentre.ca/best-books-f...

Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitchschka

YouthWrite staff is always up for a book challenge! 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
Day 15

Photo of spoken word artist and activist, Medgine Mathurin with all the details about YouthWrite's Winter WordPlay camp for ages 10-19 in Edmonton, AB.

Winter WordPlay 2025 Instructor Showcase!
One of our two fabulous instructors: Medgine Mathurin!
See the website for more on Medgine!
Winter WordPlay takes place Jan 24-26 in Edmonton, AB for ages 10-19.
www.youthwrite.com/winter-wordp...
#WritingCommunity
#YouthWriters

Pictures of YouthWriters having fun at YouthWrite camp with holiday colours of red and green. A QR code to donate to YouthWrite. Inkling, YouthWrite's mascot, is in the bottom right corner.

There is still time to give the gift of YouthWrite camp! You can donate any amount and a $100 donation sends a kid in financial need to YouthWrite's Spring Break camps or Drawn to Character character workshops!
#YouthWriters
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCamp
www.youthwrite.com/donate

The Grey Sisters by Jo Treggiari

YouthWrite staff is always up for a book challenge! 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
Day 14

The First Stone by Don Aker

YouthWrite staff is always up for a book challenge! 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
Day 13

WOW! Look at YouthWrite grow...and thanks to all of YOU!
🙏😘🥳

Roadtripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals by Conni Massing

YouthWrite staff is always up for a book challenge! 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
Day 12

Photo of Louise Casemore with YouthWrite and Winter WordPlay logos. Louise Casemoreis an award-winning playwright, actor, and proud prairie dweller. Based in Alberta on Treaty 6 and 7 Territory, she is the recipient of the ATP/Enbridge Playwright’s Award, two Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards, the Edmonton Artist Trust Fund, and was once declared to be the trivia champion of her family household. Original plays she has written and performed include OCD, Functional, GEMINI, and Undressed, which premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects in 2022. Her creative impulse is to explore real life in her writing, investigating the world around her with curiosity and humour. Louise remains active in the community by teaching, research, and hosting readings and artist events. She will make any excuse to spend time with writers, because she thinks they are the very coolest. Fun fact: Louise was a YouthWriter from 1996-1998!

Winter WordPlay 2025 Instructor Showcase!
One of our two fabulous instructors: Louise Casemore!
See the alt text/the website for more on Louise!
Winter WordPlay takes place Jan 24-26 in Edmonton, AB for ages 10-19.
www.youthwrite.com/winter-wordp...
#WritingCommunity
#YouthWriters

Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk

YouthWrite staff is always up for a book challenge! 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
Day 11

Thank you for sharing @laurensealwrites.bsky.social ! We love our alumni!

Young person on monkey bars at YouthWrite, a camp for kids who love to write. Giving Tuesday logo and QR code to remind people to donate to YouthWrite to help create more scholarships for kids in financial need to come to camp.

It's @givingtuesday.bsky.social !!!
Help send kids in financial need to YouthWrite. Last year, your generosity helped create a YouthWrite-Record-Breaking 28 scholarships!
EVERY child deserves a voice - help YouthWriters find theirs!
youthwrite.com/donat…
#WritingCommunity

We here at YouthWrite are also not sure how we feel about the lack of quotation marks we're seeing across a lot of books. We rolled with it for this one, though :)