This year marks the 10th anniversary of Writers Room.
In 2014, Writers Room held its first workshop. A small group of students, neighbors, Drexel faculty and staff began sharing stories and creating community. A decade later, we want to celebrate this milestone—to mark the path we have traveled together and plant a guidepost that points towards the road ahead.
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Writers Room began as a university-community literary arts group. It has evolved into a place where people ages 18 to 80s engage in the arts and in creative placekeeping for social justice. Our workshops, field trips, exhibitions, research, and the work we do surrounding the issues in our neighborhoods have impacted our members and rippled outwards through their lives and work. We start with story—and continue from there, figuring out what needs to be done and how we might come together to do it.
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Fundraising is critical to keeping Writers Room programming free and open to all. Please support this work through your donations. Any amount you can give is appreciated. If a money donation is not possible, please leave some words about your experience with Writers Room and share this page with friends and family who may wish to contribute too. Your contributions matter—in fact, they make all the difference.
“As a part of Writers Room, I started to find my voice as an artist, but also as a person. Every June that followed, holding a new Anthology in my hands, I had become more and more comfortable in my own skin, moving further away from the periphery and into community.”
—Devin Welsh, BA English ’20
“Writers Room showed me how far radical acts of love can go in building community and how easy it can be to show someone that they are cared for.”
—Mallika Kodavatiganti, BS Biology ’21