Playgrounds at Night: The Circuit Fall 2016 Issue

Welcome to 826michigan’s e-journal, The Circuit. Each workshop season, we publish outstanding pieces of student writing through this electronic quarterly. Remember fall of 2016? It seems like a different world. Join us as these delightful and moving pieces bring back the excitement and ingenuity of the wonderful students who visited us at our Saturday workshops and Drop-in Writing for weE-bots on Liberty Street in Ann Arbor and our Drop-in Writing for Wee-bots at the Detroit Public Library last fall.

New to 826michigan programs? Check out our schedule of free creative writing workshops for students ages 6-18 here on our website. All workshops are free and open to the public, although some require pre-registration. Our website offers more information about all of our programs for young people in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Detroit—we look forward to seeing you at a workshop soon. In the meantime, let the current of this issue of The Circuit—Playgrounds at Night—bring warmth back to your toes, fingers, and hearts.

This issue, we'd like to give special thanks to Cydni Seifort, workshops intern; Claire Stano, weE-bots leader, and her dedicated army of helpers: Carman Judd, Sara Hoffman, Josh Wirgau, Tim Monger, Erica Decker, and Luke Jackson; Emily Thomson, DPL Redford Branch librarian; and Katie Pak, editorial intern. Without their care, attention to detail, humor, and dedication, we’d be lost in the perils of this wintery mix. Thank you so very much for keeping the engine running full blast all semester long!