<p><br></p><p>We’re excited to let you know that after a series of pilot writing workshops in the Summer and Fall of 2025, we have—as of January 22, 2026—officially launched our 6th writing workshop site—<strong>Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Skagit County (</strong><a href="https://skagitclubs.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://skagitclubs.org/</a><strong>)</strong>.&nbsp;Thanks to Yesica, Dena, Marco, Clemente, Cynthia, and all the staff and students at the site for welcoming us.&nbsp;We look forward to reading and writing with you all.</p><br><p>-----------</p><br><p>Today’s feature was an interview with Robert S., an alumnus of our program.&nbsp;He was a student in our very first writing workshop—July 8, 2015—at our site in Skagit County Juvenile Detention.&nbsp;He is the poet who wrote, “Dear System” in our 1st anthology, <em>What No Over Ever Tells You</em>.&nbsp;Robert currently reads, writes, and lives in Alaska with his girlfriend and their three cats.</p><br><p>You can support students like Robert by spreading the word about our podcast, purchasing student writing anthologies in our website store, and making a donation to help sustain our ongoing work via our website’s secure donation portal.</p><br><p><strong>Some items mentioned in—or aligned with—today’s episode &amp; announcements:</strong></p><br><p>1. Robert’s writing is included in <strong><em>What No One Ever Tells You</em></strong>, our first anthology, and available via our website’s store here: <a href="https://undergroundwriting.org/store" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://undergroundwriting.org/store</a></p><br><p>2. Radio story Robert appears on . . . Thanks again to NPR / KNKX for featuring Underground Writing a couple of weeks ago, on October 10, 2025 in their series: <em>Agents of Change: Addressing Youth Violence — Lessons that Work</em>.&nbsp;And thanks to Emil Moffatt for the interview.&nbsp;If you’re interested in listening to the story: <a href="https://www.knkx.org/tags/agents-of-change-addressing-youth-violence-lessons-that-work" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.knkx.org/tags/agents-of-change-addressing-youth-violence-lessons-that-work</a></p><br><p>3. What a year already!—seemingly unending wars, a divided country teetering on the precipice, and lots of fear throughout the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;On a lesser note, there are also deep funding and staff cuts in the Arts sector— and this is at both the national and local levels.&nbsp;As a community arts nonprofit that depends on grants and individual donations for our survival, we need your support now more than ever.&nbsp;We’d be honored if you’d join our work as a patron-supporter: <a href="https://undergroundwriting.org/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://undergroundwriting.org/donate</a></p><br><p>4. We regularly hear from folks asking how they can be involved with—or help out—Underground Writing.&nbsp;We’re grateful for the interest.&nbsp;Please check out our “Get Involved” page on our website: <a href="https://undergroundwriting.org/get-involved" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://undergroundwriting.org/get-involved</a>&nbsp;Also, to highlight a few inroads for getting involved:&nbsp;1) If you live locally, consider joining us for our once-a-month re/vision volunteer day (<a href="https://undergroundwriting.org/revision" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://undergroundwriting.org/revision</a>),&nbsp;2) Spread the word about our <em>Letters to a Young Inmate </em>initiative (<a href="https://undergroundwriting.org/letters-to-a-young-inmate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://undergroundwriting.org/letters-to-a-young-inmate</a>), and&nbsp;3) Consider partnering with us by becoming a patron-donor – we’re only able to do our work because of our individual donors and grant partners . . . and we are always in need of these donor-partnerships so that we can continue our work (<a href="https://undergroundwriting.org/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://undergroundwriting.org/donate</a>).</p><br><p>---</p><br><p>We’re repeating ourselves, but it’s good to say again . . . Listeners!—You can also help us by writing a review on Apple Podcasts or other outlets.&nbsp;<em>And something new</em>—we may even read some of them on the air.&nbsp;Podcast reviews help other like-minded folks find out about our show, as well as our broader work.&nbsp;Any help you can lend to this effort would be greatly appreciated.</p><br><p>Our website:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.undergroundwriting.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.undergroundwriting.org</a></p><br><p>You can send inquiries, or pitches for advertising, here: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></p><br><p>Thanks for listening, Friends.</p><br><p>Safe journey, and take good care.</p><br><p>:</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>