Our Student Publications

“Maybe one day the pain won’t feel the same.
Me and my people won’t be lost in tears dancing in this hurricane.
But for now I’ll stand here today, pleading my case.
Asking that you all allow the broadcasting of our magic
that’s been effortlessly erased.”
— from “Dancing In This Hurricane” by Earl Williams, in Faceless: Untold Side Effects of Culture, Race, & COVID-19

In the pages of Six Feet: Same Distance, Different Stories, a profound narrative unfolds, capturing the diverse experiences of middle school students from the West Dallas STEM School during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through personal narratives, short stories, and poetry, these young authors invite readers into their world, offering profound insights into their lives during a time of unprecedented change and upheaval.

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Faceless: Untold Side Effects of Culture, Race, & COVID-19 is a collection of student writing that spans genre, space and time before, during and after the coronavirus pandemic. Supported by The 826 Dallas Project as part of their first-ever Young Authors Book Project, students from two Ethnic Studies courses at Trinidad Garza Early College High School in Dallas, Texas wrote honest and searing works that weigh the longstanding sins of American racism with the new realities of virtual learning and social distancing.  

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Exhale: Goodbye Silent Adolescence is a collection of writing created by students from schools and community-based organizations in West Dallas. Exhale defines the teenage experience as a time of learning, transition, hardship and loss. As part of 826 Dallas Project’s Young Authors Book Project, students wrote short stories, personal narratives, and poetry that contend with taking the next step in life in an increasingly uncertain world.

Ready to Close the Book is a collection of poems, letters, and short stories written by youth from the Wesley Rankin Community Center in Dallas.

Inside the Mind is an anthology of poems, short stories, and personal narratives written and designed by 7th grade students from the West Dallas STEM School.

826 Dallas Project programs provide spaces for young people to become published authors, and the opportunity to see their words featured in beautiful publications. Our projects range from zines printed and bound in-house by staff to professionally printed books. Our publications involve students in every step of the creative process - from ideas to book design.

Whether it’s crafting memoirs of the pandemic, exploring writing through photography, or issuing calls-to-action for the social issues youth care most about, 826 Dallas Project’s programs unlock the possibility of the written word as a means for processing our hopes and dreams.

Our students have powerful things to say—our publications honor that.