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.

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Join the Literary Leadership Circle

Just Buffalo’s Literary Leadership Circle provides crucial visionary support to sustain literary & educational programming year after year. As an LLC member, you play a defining role in showcasing the best of Buffalo and inspiring the next generation.
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Join us to shape the story for the next 50 years.

Just Buffalo is a place where language lives & breathes, where readers, writers, and dreamers gather to imagine a better future. For fifty years, we’ve been committed to the simple premise that words matter—to build community, spark imaginations, and shape a more just world.

Members of the Literary Leadership Circle make this work possible! Your visionary support sustains our most ambitious programs, nurtures emerging voices, and elevates Buffalo as one of the nation’s great lit cities.

Together, we are writing the next chapter.

Join The Literary Leadership Circle

Join the Literary Leadership Circle with a commitment of $5,000 or more over three years.

  • PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE: $75,000, $60,000, or $45,000 over 3 years (can be made as an annual gift of $25,000, $20,000, or $15,000)
  • PLATINUM: $30,000 over 3 years (can be made as an annual gift of $10,000)
  • GOLD: $22,500 over 3 years (can be made as an annual gift of $7,500)
  • SILVER: $15,000 over 3 years (can be made as an annual gift of $5,000)
  • BRONZE: $7,500 over 3 years (can be made as an annual gift of $2,500)
  • LITERARY LEADER: $5,000 over 3 years (can be made as an annual gift of $1,667)

To let us know you are interested in joining The Literary Leadership Circle, download our Pledge Form PDF and contact us to discuss your intention:

Download LLC Pledge Form PDF

Special Thanks to the 2025 Literary Leadership Circle

President’s Circle

Allan & Melissa Baumgart
Mark Chason & Mariana Botero Chason
Corinne F. Rice

Silver Circle

David & Eva Herer
Thomas & Sharon Hewner

Bronze Circle

Paul A. Battaglia
A&L Silverstein Foundation
John Spears
Anne & Dave Taylor

Literary Leaders

Michael C. Angelucci
Dianne Bennett & William Graebner
Sandra Block, M.D. & Patrick Long
Kanika & Spencer Durland
Geri Grossman in loving memory of Jimmie Gilliam
Jeannine & Terry Higgins
Lynda G. Kaszubski
John N. Lipsitz & Maria Scrivani
Kevin & Janet O’Leary
Elizabeth Pascal & Family
Susan & Robert Stephenson