06 Jun Meet the Youth Ambassador: Abuk
Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Abuk—a poet and recent finalist for NY Youth Poet Laureate!
Our Response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak
As a precaution to help limit the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and care for our community, Just Buffalo Literary Center has postponed a number of events, and we will follow the guidance of Buffalo Public Schools in terms of Just Buffalo Writing Center programming.
Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Abuk—a poet and recent finalist for NY Youth Poet Laureate!
Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Mia—a high school senior at City Honors School with a passion for creative writing, specializing in poetry.
Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Leni—a senior in high school and a poet.
Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Pride—a senior in high school and a romance writer.
Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Keira—a junior in high school and a poet.
Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Zelda—a junior in high school and a poet.
Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Angelina—a senior in high school and a versatile writer with a passion for reaching people with her work.
Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Nautica—a senior in high school and a poet and novelist.
In November 2023, a wonderful group of almost 30 young writers, artists, and performers from Just Buffalo, GLYS, Teen Reality Theatre, and Dunbar Youth Theater Arts, kicked off the last JBWC Open Mic of the season with some incredible performances.
Every year, we hold a summer gathering for alum and current writers of Just Buffalo’s Writing Center. This year, Fitz Books welcomed our crew on their whimsical back patio. We ate, we caught up, we traded prompts and wrote, and, new this year, we piloted a game we’re calling Musical Notebooks that, while involving no music or notebooks, was a blast!