Help Support YWA! Hear Ye, Hear Ye

With your support, Young Writers Association is able to provide opportunities for kids of all ages to play with words and share their voices with our community.

Please help our hard-working, award-winning non-profit persevere! Your donation allows us to inspire and support our young people’s relationship with the spoken and written word.

For your donation, you receive UpStarts, YWA’s literary publication of Lane County young people, as well as a discount card for 10% off at participating bookstores. And, unless you tell us not to, we will proudly acknowledge your support in UpStarts.

We welcome any donation amount! Donation form available here.
$10, $35, $50, $100, or more. Please give what you can.
Your donation is tax deductible.

For your gift of $35 or more you receive a YWA card that entitles you to a 10% discount at the following local bookstores:
• Black Sun Books
• Books Without Borders
• Emerald City Comics
• Smith Family Bookstore
• Tsunami
• UO Bookstore

Examples of what your support can help us achieve:

Bring us into schools:
• $625 buys one school day’s worth of a team of four artists working with 120 school children.
• $150 for a full day of age appropriate creative writing explorations in an Oregon School

Add to the scholarship fund:
• $225 buys a scholarship good for the one-week summer literature camp
• $95 buys a scholarship for 12 hours of word-based play for the primary elementary age group
• $75 buys a scholarship good for 8 weekly writing sessions of 90 minutes each
• $40 buys a scholarship good for a 7 hour school-days-out writing/arts retreat, YEA! YES!Days

Stir up literary play:
• $100 pays the honorarium for an author to lead an intergenerational workshop
• $100 pays the honorarium for an artist offering multi-media word play for families during the Glitterary Word Festival

Help publish Lane County young people:
• $1400 to print and distribute 4,000 copies of UpStarts, YWA’s publication of Lane County young people