This workshop will focus on writing, mental health concepts, and self-care strategies.

In this workshop, we will play with Jordan's attention to urban geography, directing our attention to the monuments - public and personal and imagined - of Ypsilanti.

Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month by sharing your work at an open mic night at Corner Brewery.

Join other writers for open writing time in YpsiWrites's Writers Room.

Join YpsiWrites and retired EMU Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies Elisabeth Däumer, along with poet and clinical social worker David Boeving, in an exploration of the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.

In the final installment of our three-part series, "Jumpstart Your Novel," participants will join author Patrick Flores-Scott in examining the relationship between story and plot.

Join other writers for open writing time in YpsiWrites's Writers Room.

Join us for this presentation by four of YpsiWrites’ Writers of Ypsilanti. Angelica Esquivel, Lisa-Erika James, Kayla Chenault, and Angela Verges will share their work.

Experiment with finding the balance between character development, setting, and plot in the first chapter of your novel.

Write with us! Join other writers for open writing time in YpsiWrites' Writers Room.
If you're seeking inspiration, we'll provide a prompt. We'll also make time for writers wishing to share their work and get feedback.

In this workshop, we will consider how all of us as writers can inspire change and make a difference in our communities and our world through our creative expression.

Join author Patrick Flores-Scott in exploring the first chapter of your new novel.

Listen to poems for inspiration, then write–pen never leaving the page–to move past your inner critic.

Write with us! Join other writers for open writing time in YpsiWrites' Writers Room.

If you're seeking inspiration, we'll provide a prompt. We'll also make time for writers wishing to share their work and get feedback.

Write with us! Join other writers for open writing time in YpsiWrites' Writers Room.

If you're seeking inspiration, we'll provide a prompt. We'll also make time for writers wishing to share their work and get feedback.

Create writing gifts for loved ones with us on Saturday, December 2 from 11-12:30 p.m. in our "Writing as a Gift" hands-on writing session. Participants will learn how to create and turn your poetry, song lyrics, and other writing into meaningful gifts you can give this holiday season.

Celebrate Native American Indian Heritage Month with YpsiWrites! Participants in this workshop will learn about Indigenous understandings of the universe which influence the art of storytelling and narrative through various examples of poems and stories by Native American authors. With Ypsi Yaqui poet, Michelle Lietz, this workshop will explore ways of ethically engaging in cultural exchange while giving participants a chance to try out poetic and fiction forms and devices that make use of repetition.

Write with Us! Join other writers for open writing time on Zoom. If you're seeking inspiration, we'll provide a prompt. We'll also make time for writers wishing to share their work and get feedback.

Round out the season with this final “campfire”! During this session, participants will explore devices and forms to think about radical revision (significant changes in form) and basic editing (to strengthen poetic images or lines). Feel free to attend one, or all, of this season’s campfires!

Join YpsiWrites and our leaders, volunteers, and 2023 Writers of Ypsilanti to celebrate our fourth anniversary along with the National Day on Writing. We will celebrate our 2023–2024 YpsiWrites’ theme: Write for Change by having our new Writers of Ypsilanti cohort share the ways in which they advocate for and/or bring about change through their writing. The Writers will also share creative ideas they use in their own writing to inspire you to write for change!

Come to Black Stone Bookstore for a poetry workshop exploring downtown with fellow youth poets. Meet up and finish at Black Stone. FREE for all high-school aged teens.

Write with Us! Join other writers for open writing time at the Superior library branch. If you're seeking inspiration, we'll provide a prompt. We'll also make time for writers wishing to share their work and get feedback.

Kids and parents, take a guided art walk with Doodles Academy to look at, discuss, and explore the A Colorful Dream exhibit. Then visit writing stations and write your own fairy tale.

Come sit by the metaphorical “fire” with YpsiWrites as we explore poetic devices through thoughtful and (sometimes) challenging poetry! Participants in this session will read poems, explore poetic devices and forms, and use those devices and forms to write lines that keep the fire burning. Feel free to attend one, or all, of this season’s campfires!

Come to NZ for a poetry workshop exploring downtown with fellow youth poets. Meet up and finish at Neutral Zone. FREE for all high-school aged teens.

Join YpsiWrites as we kick-off this season’s “campfires” (poetry workshops)! During this session, participants will learn about different types of poetic projects by reading examples (a series, a long poem, a suite, and an occasional poem), and will plan out a poetic project they can work on across and beyond the season’s poetry events. Feel free to attend one, or all, of this season’s campfires!

Write with Us! Join other writers for open writing time at the Whittaker Road library branch. If you're seeking inspiration, we'll provide a prompt. We'll also make time for writers wishing to share their work and get feedback.

Looking for one-to-one writing support? Join us for drop-in writing consulting to meet with one of our trained volunteers to help you elevate your writing projects. We're happy to discuss, provide feedback, help brainstorm through a writer's block, and even help with formatting questions. All forms of writing can be reviewed and discussed — resumes, college essays, cover letters, fiction chapters, poetry, and so much more.

Write with Us! Join other writers for open writing time at the Michigan Avenue library branch. If you're seeking inspiration, we'll provide a prompt. We'll also make time for writers wishing to share their work and get feedback.

Looking for one-to-one writing support? Join us for drop-in writing consulting to meet with one of our trained volunteers to help you elevate your writing projects. We're happy to discuss, provide feedback, help brainstorm through a writer's block, and even help with formatting questions. All forms of writing can be reviewed and discussed — resumes, college essays, cover letters, fiction chapters, poetry, and so much more.