A Word from Our President
Fifteen years ago, the Writers Guild Initiative was founded out of Writers Guild East with a vision to share the gift of writing: partnering professional writers with first-time writers from marginalized populations, enabling them to find their voice.
Since our founding, we have connected to and served individuals with powerful stories to tell, beginning with veterans and their caregivers, and expanding to include survivors of human trafficking, exonerated death row prisoners, incarcerated men at the Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana, victims of Hurricane Sandy, the Muslim Writers Collective, people living with HIV/AIDS, people living with chronic illness, United We Dream (the DACA recipients), nurses on the front line of covid, people living with long covid, and LGBTQ+ asylum seekers.
We are constantly engaging with new populations and we now average a writing workshop every month. We have grown our roster of mentors to 145, including Spanish speakers, immigrants, asylum seekers, and LGBTQ+ mentors.
Your support of WGI—whether in the form of a contribution, a sponsorship, or donating your time and talent as a mentor—goes directly to our workshops, transforming the lives of people all over the country.
We could not do what we do without your generous support.
Richard Dresser
President, Writers Guild Initiative
Sponsor WGI
WGI is immensely grateful to our generous corporate and institutional funders who make it possible for us to grow our reach by sponsoring writing workshops.
Workshops serve a wide range of brand-new writers, through partnerships with community organizations including the Wounded Warrior Project, United We Dream, Empower Survivors Now, and more.
If your company is interested in sponsoring a WGI workshop, please contact us
