Day Eight is excited to be partnering with the Shepherd Park Library and Friends of Shepherd Park Library to provide five weeks of in-person writing camp this summer. The camp brings in exceptional DC-area poets and journalists as faculty within a comfortable and supportive place for youth to develop as writers. Students in the program […]
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$150 Honoraria provided – sign up today! Day Eight and KIPP DC are partnering on Bring Joy Back to School, a Student and Caregiver Poetry Workshop and Performance to take place 3:00-6:00pm Sunday June 5, 2022 funded by the Flamboyan Foundation. Download a flier for Back to School with Joy [PDF]. We are recruiting student […]
Day Eight is proud to announce the launch of Write Now, a Writing Circle for Women and Girls, co-directed by poets Kim B. Miller and Shaquetta Nelson. Write Now is a new program designed to support writing by women and girls. It consists of two components geared toward high school students: monthly club meetings and […]



