Come Write In: How to Build a Writers’ Community

Our Come Write In program provides libraries, bookstores, and other neighborhood hubs the resources to build and support a local writing community. We dig through the stacks to bring you our favorite stories: today, Jennifer Mattox at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning shares why partnering with bookstores and libraries to promote writing matters:

The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning is a community learning and literary arts center in Lexington, Kentucky, and NaNoWriMo fits perfectly into our mission: to empower people to explore and express their voices through imaginative learning and the literary arts.

As a Come Write In site, we encourage writers to meet in groups or individually to write their novels. Our Writers Reference Room has bookshelves full of valuable resources devoted to the craft of writing, and a library table and desks just perfect for the aspiring writer. Wrimos are welcome and encouraged  to write here anytime we are open Monday through Saturday, and they are free to bring food and drinks with them if they want to make a day of it…