Come celebrate an anthology of short detective stories penned by Oakland 4th & 5th graders!

Bring your whole family on Saturday, November 16 from 2pm-4pm

at Chapter 510, 546 9th Street, Oakland

Young Author Readings & Signings!

You do not want to miss the Official Opening of the Partially Personalized and Pneumatic Poetic Permits, Permission Slips, Passes, Potions, and Prescriptions Service!

Authors Against Book Bans & Chapter 510 present Freedom To Read a Banned Book Week event featuring Chapter 510 youth, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Angela Dalton, and Laure Gao

Come Write Your Roots with us at the Oakland Roots game on September 14!

You won’t want to miss this year’s Bay Area Book Festival! Swing by our booth on Center St. for bookmaking and art activities, youth author readings, and to experience MEGALAND, a theme Park created by Hoover Elementary, and brought to life with Augmented Reality by Black Terminus. Our youth authors, Isa Vance, Jordyn Newsom, Yousef Abuhambiya, and Zoel Curtis will be reading from their published books from 11:30-12, and signing copies afterward! See the schedule below for more details.

Join us for our Spring Lit Fest in celebration of the release of House Where The Earth Shakes, an anthology of poetry by teens, Hello From Somewhere, an anthology of fiction by Middle School students and our new podcast, Sound Space: Tales of Surviving High School. 

Enjoy an afternoon of family friendly hands-on arts activities, food, music as well as readings and young author signings. Peruse our Dept. of Make / Believe store and help us celebrate our 10 year anniversary of serving Oakland youth! 

Don’t miss the Chapter 510’s Youth Advisory Board hosting our First Friday open mic and workshop! Writers of all levels, ages 13-19 ,are welcome.

Writing Workshop | 4:30PM - 5:30PM

Open Mic | 5:30PM - 7PM

Don’t miss the Chapter 510’s Youth Advisory Board hosting our First Friday open mic and workshop! Writers of all levels, ages 13-19 ,are welcome.

Writing Workshop | 4:30PM - 5:30PM

Open Mic | 5:30PM - 7PM

Don’t miss the Chapter 510’s Youth Advisory Board hosting our First Friday open mic and workshop! Writers of all levels, ages 13-19 ,are welcome.

Writing Workshop | 4:30PM - 5:30PM

Open Mic | 5:30PM - 7PM

Don’t miss January’s special First Friday event the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Alumni Showcase.

7:00PM - 8:30PM

Come celebrate 10 books penned by Oakland youth!

Bring your whole family on Saturday, December 16 from 1pm-4pm

at Chapter 510, 546 9 Street, Oakland

Young Author Readings & Signings!

Don’t miss the Chapter 510’s Youth Advisory Board hosting our First Friday open mic and workshop! Writers of all levels, ages 13-19 ,are welcome.

Writing Workshop | 4:30PM - 5:30PM

Open Mic | 5:30PM - 7PM

On Sat., July 22 from 2pm-5pm, join us in celebrating author and illustrator Rob Liu-Trujillo’s book release of FRESH JUICE!

We are releasing two new titles written by 13 middle-school Oaklanders: Empowered Origins, a Fantasy Anthology by queer youth of color in Oakland, and Fire at Your Fingertips, a poetry anthology. Writers took part in multi-year writing workshops led by author and Chapter 510 Teaching Artist Duane Horton, and have written deep, important, and beautiful stories and poems.

On Sat., May 13, join us in celebrating author (and Chapter 510 teaching artist) Tiffany Golden’s latest book release at Chapter 510’s very first Children’s Book Series event!

Don’t miss the Chapter 510’s Youth Advisory Board hosting our First Friday open mic and workshop! Writers of all levels, ages 13-19 ,are welcome.

Writing Workshop | 4:30PM - 5:30PM

Open Mic | 5:30PM - 7PM

Come Write Your Roots with us at the Oakland Roots season opener, Saturday, March 25! Get your tickets!

Youth Vs Apocalypse and Chapter 510 will be hosting an open mic for Bay Area youth from the ages of 10-19 to provide the space to acknowledge and appreciate the power of resilience we share in our communities, especially when resisting the oppressive systems we are advocating to dismantle. Bring your poems, songs, speeches, verses, and more! If you have past experience performing or it's your first time on the mic we want to hear your words and voice!

Youth Vs Apocalypse and Chapter 510 will be having a writing workshop for youth to come together and imagine what they want their future to look like and how to get there. The writing workshop is FREE for youth ages 10-19.

We will be hosting an EPIC celebration of EIGHTEEN newly written books by Oakland youth. Come CELEBRATE these young authors and get all your BOOKISH holiday shopping done in one day! Students will be signing books throughout the day, and there will be two readings that you can attend too!

Bay Are Book Festival Event, Magic Goes Global: The Marvellers, an Interview with Tiffany and Makissi of Chapter 510

Come celebrate the grand opening of Chapter 510’s writing center on Write Your Roots day, April 29!

Come celebrate the release of our latest youth publication New Dawn Rising: Sci-Fi Screenplays by Oakland Youth. during the Youth & Creativity Old Oakland Block Party!

You’re invited to a performance and conversation with Mike Birbiglia on 1/19 to benefit Chapter 510, a made-in-Oakland youth writing center.

The Dept. of Make / Believe is opening for the holidays with dozens of new products that will help you imaginate, create, write, and wear your support for Chapter 510’s free writing program for youth!

Come out to celebrate the release of last year’s Write Your Roots all-Town poem, contribute writing to our next epic poem, and join Chapter 510 in cheering for our hometown favorite—the Oakland Roots!