Time commitment: 2-5 hours per month
Description: Consultants can provide feedback to writers online and/or in person (it’s up to the volunteer!). We let writers know our volunteers are generalists, which means consultants should be comfortable reading and giving feedback on a wide variety of writing genres, such as fiction, memoir, cover letters, poems, and essays. YpsiWrites provides a consultant manual with helpful guidance and resources.
Requirements:
- All consultants should establish rapport, show respect, and be supportive of community writers.
- All consultants must attend a virtual 1-hour training session before their first consultation.
- In-person consultants must be available at a Writers Room session, which occurs monthly at the Ypsilanti District Library.
- Virtual consultants must be comfortable with using Google Sheets, email, Google Docs or Word, and PDF files. This is how community members submit their writing to us.
- For virtual consultations, feedback must be returned to the writer within one week of submission. Most submissions are between 2 and 10 pages in length.
Write for Wellness
Assist with monthly pick up and distribution of
Write for Wellness worksheets to the Ypsilanti libraries and storefronts in Downtown, Midtown, and Depot Town.
Time commitment: 1-2 hours per month
Requirements:
- Volunteers must be able to pick up worksheets from an YpsiWrites' teammate and then travel around Ypsilanti to drop them off.
- Volunteers must keep track of the number of worksheets they have dropped off in a Google sheet provided by YpsiWrites.
Community Outreach (summer only)
3-5 hours per month
Outreach volunteers represent YpsiWrites at local events, such as Parkridge SummerFest and A2 Community Bookfest. Volunteers staff tables, run activities, and hand out information sheets.
