Cosmic Writers 2023 Annual Report

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A LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dear Cosmic Writers Community, Cosmic Writers has grown into itself this year. Last year, 2022, was a year of beginnings: it was our first year operating as an independent nonprofit, and with that came our first in-person workshops in Philadelphia, our first partnerships with schools and libraries, and our startup grant from the University of Pennsylvania. 2023 has had plenty of beginnings as well — see our list of highlights on page 4 — but this year was primarily about refining our identity.

We came into 2023 knowing that, fundamentally, the Cosmic Writers model worked. At that point, we had seen the impact of our programs on 750 children.

We knew that our programs were boosting kids’ writing fluency. We saw that some of our virtual participants came from rural areas where they had never before had access to creative writing education. These were worthy and exciting outcomes, and they showed us the variety of ways that creative writing education could be impactful. This year, my team and I realized that it was time to hone in on a core goal. We wanted to pinpoint the single most important thing that we’re using creative writing education to achieve.

Over the course of the year, I noticed a trend among our youth. Many of our program participants entered as reluctant writers who had never written anything other than 5-paragraph essays, and exited as enthusiastic storytellers who were self-motivated to create the kinds of worlds that they saw in their favorite video games and TV shows. This is a real transformation, and it happens because our workshops give kids permission to use their voices. Our message is: Your ideas matter. We want to hear what you have to say.

So my team and I fine-tuned our philosophy to ensure that all our work comes back to using creative writing for empowerment. Creative writing gives kids the space to determine their beliefs; the skills to express those beliefs; and the agency to use those beliefs to shape their lives.

That’s the theme of our 2023–2024 annual campaign: Write Your Story. We encourage all members of our community, from the kindergarteners in our “Beats & Rhymes” workshop to our donors with thriving careers in fields ranging from academia to banking, to reflect on how writing has given you the power to determine your own fate. After all, in the Cosmic Writers universe, everyone gets to pilot a rocket.

Rowana

Rowana Miller Founder and Executive Director

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WELCOME TO THE COSMIC UNIVERSE A boundless spacescape in which writing reigns and possibility is determined by imagination.

MISSION To use creative writing to empower children to develop their

LITERACY, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, and

SELF-CONFIDENCE.

VISION A world in which all children see writing as a

SOURCE OF JOY.

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VALUES

PARTNERS

CREATIVITY COMES FIRST. Encouraging imaginative and critical thinking so that all children know that their voices matter

BUILD A FOUNDATION OF LITERACY.

Eliza B. Kirkbride Elementary School

Helping children to become strong writers, readers, and thinkers

EQUITY THROUGH ACCESSIBILITY. Bringing writing to children where they are, both geographically and pedagogically

EVERYONE CREATES THE COMMUNITY. Developing a culture of feedback in which all CW universe members contribute to our norms

CULTIVATE THE JOY OF WRITING. Crafting fun environments that create positive connotations around writing

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FURNESS HIGH SCHOOL

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2023 HIGHLIGHTS Began offering professional development to schools, libraries, and partner organizations, to ensure the widest possible reach of our method for teaching creative writing Sponsored by the Association of Small and Rural Libraries to run a virtual training for 70+ librarians about how to use creative writing to engage young patrons

SUMMER

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Established our first partnerships with NYC-based nonprofits and community organizations Ran multiple open-to-the-public workshops at iconic bookstore Shakespeare & Co.

Launched field trip series for 14 classes in partnership with the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania

Created the Virtual Summer Institute for Young Writers: the country’s first free, virtual creative writing intensive for high schoolers

FALL

Partnered with the New York Public Library to run a monsterbuilding workshop for the entrants to their annual youth creative writing competition

Became an official partner of the Philadelphia School District; ran 13 workshops in 8 schools in the Philly SD over the course of the season

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IN-PERSON PROGRAMS Over the course of 2023, we partnered with 30+ schools, libraries, and community organizations to run programs on the ground in NYC and Philadelphia. From our first-ever workshop with the New York Public Library to our recurring nature-writing camp in Philly’s FDR Park, we’ve incorporated joyful literacy into every facet of children’s lives.

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MONSTER-BUILDING AT THE NYPL Cosmic Writers ran a monster-building workshop at the New York Public Library’s end-of-summer celebration. 1st–5th graders created original monsters, including a demon who jumps through mirrors and a gelatinous alien from Planet Ice Cream.

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NATURE-WRITING: BACK TO THE WOODS

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For the second summer, Cosmic Writers hosted a nature-writing camp in Philadelphia’s iconic FDR Park. Campers became superhero defenders of nature as they created fictional worlds set inside the park’s imaginationsparking landscape.

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PILOT: EMBEDDED WORKSHOP IN 12TH-GRADE ENGLISH This fall, we worked closely with teachers at Paul Robeson High School to integrate a creative writing workshop into their 12thgrade English classes. Students began by exploring their identities and ambitions through “Afrofuturism: Black Panther & Beyond.” In the second part of the semester, they delved even deeper in “Making You the Main Character,” a course on identity-based writing designed to support the seniors in their college application essays.

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Our afterschool programs continue to provide key literacy services for K–8 school students as they learn about fun and unconventional writing genres. Each workshop is five weeks long and takes students through the process of learning new writing conventions, finding sources of inspiration, drafting original projects, and presenting polished final pieces.

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SCREENWRITING & SPIES This year, we held four workshops at the Samuel Powel School, welcoming elementary schoolers to the joy of imaginative writing with illustrated fables, improv slam poetry, spy fiction, and scriptwriting. The fall workshops culminated in a collective Sharing Day in which participants from both “Secret Agent Boot Camp” and “Storytelling for the Stage” presented their spy stories and plays.

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SOUTH PHILLY IMAGINATIONS

We were proud to partner with the Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance (GPCA) on their programming at the George Sharswood School, where we taught “Fountain of Creativity” and “Hot Off the Press.”

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Sharing Day at Sharswood with instructors Em Brandon and Erika Acosta “Both instructors took the time to help each student and answer any questions that they brought up.

Even the extra silly ones.”

–Fall 2023 Program Partner

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LONGSTANDING CONNECTIONS

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It’s a delight to continue working with our inaugural school partner, the Eliza B. Kirkbride School. We returned this year with four afterschool workshops.

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WORD CAMP In 2023, our flagship program, Word Camp, returned for its 4th summer. The camp included 38 participants across 8 workshops.

Our instructors put together a phenomenal slate of curricula that blended innovative writing lessons with fun, engaging, and active genre elements. New workshops like “Secret Agent Boot Camp” and “Spells and Skyscrapers” have already become popular courses in our catalog, where they continue to entertain and educate students in our afterschool programs.

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–Word Camp Parent , 2023

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–David, 8th gra de

SUMMER INSTITUTE This year, alongside Word Camp, we launched our Summer Institute for Young Writers. To our knowledge, the Summer Institute is the world’s first free, virtual summer writing intensive designed for high schoolers with summer jobs. In this application-based program, our inaugural cohort of writers learned about core principles of writing across genres and types of media.

They worked together to write and perform a mystery play during Writing Bowl, dissected excerpts of science fiction, and read their familyinspired poetry aloud on Sharing Day. We were floored by the way that the Institute graduates grew together this summer.

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–Jocelyn, 9th grade

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VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING From the reality of memoirs to the fantasy of role-playing games, our virtual programming has allowed us to connect students around the globe with engaging, community-based writing workshops.

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IDENTITY-FOCUSED WRITING

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This fall, in collaboration with We Need Diverse Books (WNDB), we hosted our most widelyattended workshop to date. 40 high school students from across the U.S. and beyond participated in a 5-week virtual program in which they learned the fundamentals of writing about identity. The majority of these students identified as low-income and/or firstgeneration, so we were especially grateful to be able to provide the coaching, individual critique, and community resources necessary to support their academic journeys. Like the Robeson program, the WNDB workshop centered around the “Making You the Main Character” curriculum, a course that combines a creative writing approach with the specific skills necessary to write college essays. Instructors Kei and Andrés leveraged their experiences as Amherst and Penn students, respectively, to uncover the unspoken rules of the college essay genre, engaging participants in deep conversations about the roles of identity, education, and audience in the university admissions process.

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FICTION IN DISCORD WORKSHOPS

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In addition to “Making You the Main Character,” we ran an array of storytellingbased virtual workshops for high schoolers, ranging in genre from Young Adult fiction to Dungeons-and-Dragons-inspired worldbuilding.

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CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS This summer, we hosted our inaugural Summer Writing Awards, in which we awarded prizes to talented writers in elementary, middle, and high school for creative writing pieces in a variety of genres.

The submissions — many of which I N ev were written in Cosmic Writers e I’ d S e r T h o u g h workshops — demonstrated the t e Y ou A skills, passions, and voices of the Iw g a in cl a s s a tch a s p young writers who make Cosmic r e f r ie n o o m , a l l o p l e r u s what it is today. Take a look at these h in d g e t t i s a l r e a d y h u d d l e s in t o t h e excerpts from our winners! ng so . ? a k e d T h e n , I Is e v e r y o d o n ’t f . n I h o l d m a ke m O h , n o . P e e l m y e y e e l e e s tr o n b a ck th e cr y o n th a s e , p l e a s s e f ir s te a r s g ! Tw , b ut t d ay e th e n o te a i r ! te n ! t ’s j s tu d a s h I j u m p o u r n in t o f u s t t o o ou t to th e b oy of m y s e r, an d a s’ b a th r o o t a n d osity The Curi m.

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FIELD TRIPS The Kelly Writers House (KWH) — Cosmic Writers’ birthplace, and the University of Pennsylvania’s hub for creative writing — supported us in running 14 creative writing workshops in its own Arts Café. Philadelphia public school students visited KWH and Penn’s campus to experience a day designed to help them see themselves as writers. At the end of each visit, we invited students to share their writing at the same podium that KWH’s visiting authors use to read their work.

Field trips included....

• Zine-Making, Hermit Crab Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction; High School for Creative & Performing Arts (CAPA) 9th–12th graders • Fairytale Writing; Masterman School 5th & 6th graders • Slam Poetry; Revolution School 9th–12th graders • Dark Fiction; Furness High School 11th graders

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COSMIC COACHING For a second year, we partnered with the Penn Graduate School of Education to run Cosmic Coaching, our one-on-one mentorship series.

Cosmic Coaching has two components: drop-in coaching on Friday evenings, and 8-week-long mentorships for particularly passionate young writers. Many writers used the mentorships to develop major projects, ranging from poetry collections to novels. They also fulfilled individualized goals, such as learning to write sensory descriptions and balancing action-packed scenes with emotional moments.

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THEORY OF CHANGE How Cosmic Writers Is Making a Difference INTAKES

INPUTS

Teachers Innovative creative writing curriculum

Highly-trained near-peer mentors K–12 students

75%

IMPACTS

Professional development on teaching writing

Creative & empowered teaching

Creative writing workshops

Increased writing confidence & passion

Opportunities for performance & publication

Improved writing quality: fluency, clarity, & voice

Who We Serve

of our partner organizations serve majority-low-income populations

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INTERVENTIONS

78%

of our partner organizations serve majority-POC populations

OUR IMPACT After a Cosmic Writers Workshop... of our students reported increased writing confidence

of our students reported increased enjoyment of writing of our students reported that they met somebody with different ideas than themselves of our students reported a high or substantial likelihood of continuing to write on their own

On average, the robustness* of participants’ writing increased by

2023 By the Numbers

1200 24 children served

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FINANCIALS EXPENSES $218,000

REVENUE $257,400 In-Kind Grants: 6% Earned Revenue: 19%

Fundraising: 11%

Individual Contributions: 34%

Institutional Contributions: 41%

Administrative: 26%

Programming: 63%

GRANTS, SPONSORSHIPS, AND AWARDS Generously Provided By

THE PETER AND MARY LEVIN FOUNDATION

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THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS! Intergalactic Explorer ($1000+) Franca Angeli Bruce Brownstein Al Filreis Alexa Kamm Catherine Keane Rae Krelitz Kate Levin Hannah Lord Alex Potter Ann Reese Adam Steinhaus Chris Stroup Hanna Trudo Stacey Weber Lisa Wolfe Yonghui Xu Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Spacewalker ($500–$999) Michael Adler Esther Fein Leanne Huebner Jamie-Lee Josselyn Natalya Kasatova Roy Ku Patrick Manning Elise Neumann Edward Phelan Alexandra Romero Lauren Shafer Hee Kwon Song Tiffany Sparks Peter Steinberg Janice Willett Laura Zinn Fromm Anonymous Cosmonaut ($100–$499) Kristen Aldrich Irwyn Applebaum Vanessa Banigo Thomas Banks Leah Baxter Adam Biren Thomas Burnett John Carroll Richard Carter Vishal & Shelly Chopra Marissa Christie Michael Cocco Robert Cwiklik Allison Deegan Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve Robert Dinerman Gregory Djanikian Linda Falcao Scott Gerber Seetharam Gudemaranahalli V. Hansmann Katie Heidenreich Brooks James Josselyn Laureen Josselyn Claudia Kakareka Eleanor Kane Jaesun Kang Jina Kim Alex Kreit Rachel Kugelmass Manika Lall

Hannah Litchfield Jalma Marcus Aaron Marcus Benjamin Martinez Laura McCann Phelan McCormack Winifred McCormack Laurence Miller Diwakar Mohan Mamie Morgan Nicholas Peile Sweta Pokharel Laine Potter Lisa Quattlebaum Aubrey Raimondi Chamith Rajapakse Mingo Reynolds Molly Russakoff Priya Satish Dan Schorr Joelle Silverman Sandra Silverman Manoj Simha Jeff Sirkin Cindee Steinhaus Andrew Stumacher Nova Ren Suma Edward Swikart III Nicholas Torres Jane Treuhaft Janice Trichon Kim Trinh Kathleen Willett Stargazer (<$100) Chinaza Akobi Naomi Andrews Waseem Anwer Lily Applebaum Tony Au Cindy Au-Kramer Rebecca Barber R.J. Bernocco Gideon Bernstein Julia Bloch Dan Bosin Em Brandon Arielle Brousse Ari Brown Matt Brown David Brownstein Sarah Burnett Janine Catalano Nicholas Cerruti Younjung Cho Diane & Richard Chudley Lena Coe Michael Corona Rachel Dalton Becky Dalzell Jocelyn Dambrosio Judith Danovitch Debra Donnally Laurie Dougherty Shauna Downey Robert Duncan Andres Echevarriarza Jay Elias Karen Epstein Randi Epstein Byrne Fahey Rachel Feintzeig Jennifer Forbes-Nicotera Akua Fordjour

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BOARD & STAFF Board of Directors Al Filreis Alexa Kamm Catherine Keane Patrick Manning

Nicholas Oram Manoj Simha Adam Steinhaus Hanna Trudo

Advisory Board Kristen Rocha Aldrich Hannah Litchfield Richard Carter Ry Luikens Ashley Codner Ian McCormack John Gamba Rich Thau Jamie-Lee Josselyn Tiffany Yau Leadership Team Rowana Miller, Founder & Executive Director Em Brandon, Director of Development Nancy Xu, Director of Programs David Han, Finance Manager Em Maiorano, Social Media Manager Dylan Fritz, Instructor Liaison Project Consultants Devorah Bass Ashley Codner Rebekah Donnell Ian McCormack

Jennifer Mittelman Anna Ross Manoj Simha Robert Witten

Instructors Erika Acosta Kelly He Clara Blackwell Enne Kim Armie Chardiet Kei Lim Celine Choi Shaan Manocha Haley Creighton Delaney Parks Sophia DeGrands Isaac Pollock sarah Djato Christina Poulin Margaret Dunn Sophie Quaglia Laura Eugene Julia Rotgin Mmachi Ezigbo Keemia Sarafpour Dylan Fritz Farah Sayed Andrés GonzalesBen Small Bonillas Ella Sohn Dedeepya Guthikonda Emilia Young Sophia Hall Allyson Ye William Zong Junior Instructors Vaidehi Bhardwaj Noa Kizhnerman Christian Mackey Brinda Narapareddygari

Interns Emaan Ansari

Maya Kumar

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WRITING THE FUTURE