Grantee Database

Tuleburg Press/The Write Place

Grant Year

2025-26

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$21,000.00

Project Description

Wordstock209 is a proposed week-long, community-based literary festival that will take place in Stockton, California, in 2026. In collaboration with the Behavioral Health Program of Community Medical Centers, our team includes B.C. Leake, the Season 15 America’s Got Talent winner, Orlando “”Zeps” Molina, author of the children’s series Rhymosaurs, the four San Joaquin county poets laureate (Tracy, Stockton, Escalon and Lodi). This event will spotlight all the San Joaquin County Poets Laureate and serve as a platform to uplift local and regional voices, celebrate diverse literary traditions, and engage the public in free, accessible literary programming. The festival will feature readings, workshops, school visits, and hands-on book arts activities for youth and families. In addition to delivering meaningful community impact, Wordstock209 will further elevate Tuleburg Press as a literary leader in planning, coordination, and outreach.

Organization Summary

Tuleburg Press publishes local authors and mentors emerging writers at The Write Place, the organization’s creative writing and book arts center. We publish 1-3 books a year. Classes and field trips for people of all ages, with specific attention to low-income and marginalized groups, are held in papermaking, bookbinding, letterpress printing, and writing in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. We currently serve between 30-40 participants a month. Tuleburg Press collaborates with other organizations to provide these same services to specific groups: the San Joaquin County Office of Education, Community Medical Centers, and San Joaquin County Housing Authority communities are priority partners. We also work with justice-impacted individuals through memoir writing and journal-making workshops in partnership with Friends Outside and the Community Medical Centers Respite Center, supporting healing and self-expression through the literary arts. Tuleburg Press is a stakeholder in the revitalization of the downtown Stockton core and a lead organization on arts advocacy and access in Stockton.

Organization

Tuleburg Press/The Write Place

Address

343 E. Main St., #101

Stockton

95202

County

San Joaquin

Region

Central Valley

Website

Email

Congressional District

California's 9th congressional district

State Assembly District

District 13

State Senate District

District 5

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