With support from the California Arts Council, 826LA will facilitate our Field Trips program at our Writing Labs in Los Angeles and traveling field trips to Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools, introducing over 3,100 students to the literary arts annually. In our improv-style program, “Barnacle and Barnacle Publishing” is owned and operated by the mysterious Professor Barnacle who engages 826LA volunteers to help students learn the fundamentals of storytelling-including plot, characters, setting, and dialogue–and publishing. Students work collaboratively and independently, and at the end of each field trip, leave as published authors, taking home a copy of the book they worked together to write.