15 Dec Apply for the 2026 JB Poetry Fellowship!
Applications for the 2026 JB Poetry Fellowship are officially open as of today, December 15, 2025!
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.
Applications for the 2026 JB Poetry Fellowship are officially open as of today, December 15, 2025!
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Poetry Fellowship: Nabila Lovelace of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Their first book Sons of Achilles is available from YesYes Books. Lovelace will visit Buffalo this August for a writing residency and read at the August 30 Silo City Reading Series event.
Applications for the 2025 JB Poetry Fellowship are officially open as of today, January 1, 2025!
Presenting “Still Life” a short story by the 2024 JBWC Youth Fellow, Zazie Anastasopoulos.
Meet Zazie Anastasopoulos, the winner of the 2024 JBWC Youth Fellowship—a program offering young writers the opportunity to develop their craft and explore professional avenues within the literary arts.
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024 Poetry Fellowship: Diana Cao of Boston, MA. Cao will visit Buffalo this August for a writing residency and perform at the August 31 Silo City Reading Series event.
Applications for the 2024 JBWC Youth Fellowship are officially open as of today, March 1, 2024!
Presenting a selection of pieces from Blood Rummage by 2023 JBWC Youth Fellow Jonah Ruddock, who explores how a microplastic traverses a wilderness of waste and decay. "Remember: everything is touching everything else, and everyone is lying to you."
JBWC Fellow Jonah Ruddock has been busy this month working on his Fellow project: a micro-chapbook about microplastics, which he hopes to turn into a zine. Why microplastics?