Day Eight invites our community to a poetry reading celebrating the Spring 2025 Women and Girls Writing Program this Saturday, March 29th, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm at the Shepherd Park Library, 7420 Georgia Ave NW. The reading will include youth participants in the program, who have spent the semester growing their writing skills with […]

Looking for a summer experience that sparks creativity and ignites a lifelong love for writing? Day Eight’s Writing Camp is a place for 6th-9th grade youth to embark on a journey of self-expression and literary exploration. Update 7/11: Due to the ongoing a/c outage at Shepherd Library, the last two weeks of camp this season […]

Day Eight is excited to announce the winner of our 14th annual College Student Arts Journalism Competition, Georgetown University’s Hailey Wharram. Hailey Wharram is currently a senior at Georgetown majoring in English with minors in journalism and film and media studies. She is an Associate Editor at The Georgetowner and also writes for The Georgetown […]