Project Write Now

Join us for Write Out Loud at Asbury Book Cooperative ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!

WHAT IS IT❔ - A fun evening of storytelling, conversation, and community!
WHEN IS IT❔ - August 11, starting at 7 p.m.
WHERE IS IT❔ - Asbury Book Cooperative, Asbury Park
HOW MUCH IS IT❔ - Just $10!

Using creative prompts, we generate new writing. Then we are invited to share our work in a supportive environment.

Come be inspired in a community of creatives. Your story matters and we want to hear it! 🤍

🔗 Register today: https://pwnwriters.org/course/write-out-loud-ap/

A look back 👀 at our community events this July ...

✍️ We explored the themes “Bee,” “Rock,” “Travel,” and “Extra” in Lunchtime Write-In.
✍️ Committed writers continued to meet on Zoom for Morning Pages.
✍️ We have been facilitating a weekly write-in for older adults at Parker Life.
✍️ We had so much fun at our PWN Teen Café Open Mic at The Art of the Bean and Leaf where we presented two incredible teen interns with a $500 scholarship from the Judith M. Chauhan “Make a Difference” Fund.
✍️ Our new teen interns are all off doing great work (teaching assistants, editorial assistants, and those participating in The Interview Project).
✍️ Teen intern Sangbrita had us all become investigative journalists when she led the group at Shore House.
✍️ We came back to Red Bank Regional High School for Summer Slam again this year with the help of three of our amazing teaching assistant interns.
✍️ We have been having so much fun at Back to Nature for Teen Writing Space where our teen leaders are taking turns running the group.
✍️ We had an absolute blast hosting an Ice Cream Writing Workshop as part of the Teen Arts NJ Youth Arts Initiative at Parlor Gallery.
✍️ We came together for another Asbury Park edition of Write Out Loud at Asbury Book Cooperative.
✍️ We kicked off our first Write Out Loud in Red Bank at Crazy Story Books.
✍️ We were thrilled to have Crazy Story Books as both our event space and our inspiration for our educator workshop, too.

🔗 Check out all of our July updates: https://projectwritenow.org/july-community-outreach-8/

Calling all young writers! It’s not too late to sign up for a summer program—we still have two programs left! Join us this summer and do summer WRITE! ☀️

Our summer programs are designed to reach all writers—the young writer who loves to write and the young writer who struggles to get their ideas down on paper (or who says they are a bad writer). We are here to change that belief!

🔗 Grab your spot in a summer program today by registering at pwnwriters.org.

We can’t wait to write with you! ✍️

Experience the power of live, true, first-person storytelling at our next FIREFLY: Stories on Stage! 🎤

📅 Tuesday, August 18
⏰ Doors Open 6:30 p.m. | Showtime 7 p.m.
📍 Two River Theater

Join us to hear real stories of joy, heartbreak, humor, struggle, and triumph—told by everyday people, on stage, in front of a live audience. No judges. Just community and connection.

We will have three featured storytellers as well as opportunities from the audience to throw your name into a hat.

Our first featured storyteller is ... Jenny Morelli!

Jenny Morelli is a high school English teacher of over twenty years. She’s inspired by everything she sees and loves to spin the most mundane things into fantastical tales. She is a prolific reader and writer of poems, memoirs, short stories, and young adult novels, including the one she finished and the two others in the works. Jenny has a BA in secondary education and a Master’s in educational administration from Kean University. In Jenny’s free time, you’ll either find her sipping Chai tea and reading a variety of books near her husband and cat, feeding her backyard squirrel, or deep in thought getting in touch and learning more about her many characters.

If you’d like to throw your name into the hat, come prepared with a true, five-minute story on the theme of FIRE.

Need help finding your angle? Try one of these prompts—or bring your own interpretation …

🔥 Have you ever started a (literal or figurative) fire?
🔥 Have you ever had to put out a (literal or figurative) fire?
🔥 What’s something that’s been slowly burning inside of you?
🔥 Are you a fire sign who has ever been accused of bringing your fiery energy into a space?
🔥 When was the last time you felt completely fired up?

After the show, mingle in the beautiful Two River Theater lobby with storytellers and fellow guests to connect and enjoy concessions.

🔗 Grab your seat today by registering: https://pwnwriters.org/course/firefly/

We loved coming back to Red Bank Regional High School for Summer Slam again at the start of the month! ✨ We had four amazing groups back to back join us for some creative writing time. ✍️

With the help of our interns Nidhi, David, and Téa, we introduced each group to Project Write Now by reading the collaborative poem written by our teaching assistant interns at the start of the summer.

We decorated notebooks to make them our own, then we created writing prompts for each other by each writing two random words on notecards to redistribute as inspiration.

We lifted our favorite lines from the day and wrote them on a giant piece of paper to create a collaborative form of creative expression from all of the Summer Slam participants. This is now on display at the school.

It was a great day and we were so happy to be included. We can't wait to come back again next year! ❤️

We were thrilled to have Crazy Story Books as both our event space and our inspiration for our educator workshop yesterday! 📚

During Writing Among Books: A Summer Pause for Educators, we walked around the bookstore selecting titles that spoke to us. Then we highlighted lines from our selections to use as writing prompts—one beautiful phrase, one surprising word, one vivid image, and one complete sentence.

After a powerful share circle, we pulled genres from a cup and went back to the shelves to select new books to inspire us again. We read from pages we might not normally ever gravitate toward and found new ways into our own stories.

We are so grateful to all of the educators that joined us and look forward to more collaborations with Crazy Story Books! 🫶