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We believe that all people, especially underserved communities, benefit from the healing power of writing and storytelling. As a nonprofit organization, we depend on donations from supporters like you. We appreciate every dollar given to help us serve our community!

How We Use Your
Generous Donation:

In The Community

We are proud of the free workshops we are able to provide to the community. Westport Writers’ Workshop is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing transformative creative writing instruction to underserved communities. We send qualified instructors to provide free creative writing workshops for 6-7 weeks in the student’s community. Annually, Westport Writers’ Workshop helps over 120 students put a voice to their experiences. Westport Writers’ Workshop could not provide these writing workshops without your support and donations.

Moms of Children with Disabilities

Bringing together moms who have neurodivergent children to write about the daily obstacles and triumphs of motherhood.

Bigelow Center of Fairfield

Providing creative writing workshops to seniors who are focused on sharing their life stories with their families and friends.

STAR

The STAR workshop is for adults with developmental uniqueness. They meet for one hour a week to engage in writing their thoughts and feelings and creating community.

YPIE: Yonkers Partners in Education

Our instructor guides these students for college preparedness.

Homes for the Brave

Homes for the Brave provides housing, vocational training, and life skills coaching to help veterans leave homelessness behind.

Center for Empowerment

Provides support services for victims of interpersonal violence in the form of counseling and advocacy, crisis intervention, and emergency shelter.

Moms of Children with Disabilities

Bringing together moms who have neurodivergent children to write about the daily obstacles and triumphs of motherhood.

Bigelow Center of Fairfield

Providing creative writing workshops to seniors who are focused on sharing their life stories with their families and friends.

STAR

The STAR workshop is for adults with developmental uniqueness. They meet for one hour a week to engage in writing their thoughts and feelings and creating community.

YPIE: Yonkers Partners in Education

Our instructor guides these students for college preparedness.

Homes for the Brave

Homes for the Brave provides housing, vocational training, and life skills coaching to help veterans leave homelessness behind.

Center for Empowerment

Provides support services for victims of interpersonal violence in the form of counseling and advocacy, crisis intervention, and emergency shelter.

Scholarships

We provide a limited number of partial scholarships for our workshops. Westport Writers’ Workshop has been a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing instruction to underserved communities and partial scholarships for students with financial needs for over 14 years. Our fundraising efforts and your continued support have allowed us to help over 50 deserving students in the last two years.

"Westport has been simply incredible in supporting my writing career. The scholarships have allowed me to focus on both craft and continuity as a writer. I was able to add a new genre to my repertoire -- creative nonfiction -- as a result of this support, and am now working on a collection of personal essays. I wouldn't have been able to imagine that a year ago. In deep appreciation of everything you do to support writers!"

- Scholarship Recipient

- Scholarship Recipient

Fundraiser

Thank you to everyone for another successful night celebrating and supporting Westport Writers' Workshop second annual fundraiser, More Than Words. With your donations we raised over $7,000 for our outreach program.

A Special Thank You to Our Events Sponsors:

Outreach Testimonial

I thoroughly enjoyed the Life Stories Workshop provided by the Senior Center of Fairfield and led by Liz Matthews from the Westport Writers Workshop. The opportunity to be challenged to put pen to paper and begin to develop new ideas and share them with other aspiring, older writers was inspirational. Liz was an enthusiastic and engaging leader and I am delighted to have had the chance to learn from her”

- J.W.

A Special Thank You

to all those who donated and attended our fundraisers in 2023

Rachel Cohen

Deirdre O’Connor

Barbara Charmoy

Margaret Schutte

Paul R Fitzpatrick

Gabi Coatsworth

Erik Mace

Alice Chumard

Mark Getzfred

Amy Shapiro

George Kasper

Roberta Napolitano

Janice Grubin

Linda St. Pierre

Kimberly Knispel

Taruna Garg

Jessica Kennedy

Jennifer Palmer

Barbara Nash

Jennifer Goldberg

Mike Lauterborn

Courtney Prussin

William Stanley

John Wonneberger

Alison Fisher

Billie Karner

Thomas Clark

Margaret M Schutte

Kelli Baranowsky

Staciellen Mischel

Lois De Ghenghi

Livia Barndollar

Kristin Mayhew

Jaime Welsh

Brenda Jacobsen

Christina Bonner

Galia Gichon

Linda Waterbury

Beth Criswell

Kathy Dhanda

Beth Stevens

Leila Sheilds

Amanda Parrish Morgan

Karin Kingsley

Laren McCullagh

Katherine Denny

Karrell Lorentzen

Nancie Schwarzman

Kyoung Sook Newmann

Teresa O'Neil

Chris Belden

Alfred Vanderbilt

Deirdre E Kelly

Milena Decosimo

Amanda Corey

Trish Minskoff

Veronica Tysseland

Aline Weiller

Brad Dancer

Claudia Shaum

LeeAnn Graham

Becky Martin

Traci Miller

Justin Smith

Sarah Rosell

Kathryn Satterfield

Laurie Stone

Natasha Bowens

Ann Campbell

Jill Kalman

Amy Bedi

Elizabeth Broglio

Amy Koch Oman

Adam Cohen

Rachel Cohen

Deirdre O’Connor

We Are Grateful For Your Support!

Westport Writers Workshop is thankful for
CT HUMANITIES
for their support & a very generous grant!

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