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FINALLY, tomorrow is our Write with your nose workshop with Yosh Han and Alison Bing! And today the event was featured on Daily Candy! If you’re planning to attend tomorrow, or if you’re just getting excited now, get your tickets soon. We’re expecting a fun crowd, and hope you’ll join us.

Today, Jessica Hische’s Captain’s Log notebook for 826 Valencia was also featured on UnderConsideration. We’ll be holding our Q & A and notebook signing with Jessica on Saturday, April 13 at 6 PM! Check out the facebook event, and we’ll see you at 826 next Saturday!

All sales from Night Writer Society events and Captain’s Log notebooks benefit 826 Valencia’s free student programs.

Join The Night Writer Society on April 5, from 7:30 to 9:00 PM for an evening workshop of writing inspired by scent. This is not your grandma’s scent workshop: perfumer Yosh Han and travel and food writer Alison Bing will reactivate taste and smell in modern writing, ridding you of olfactory clichés and re-teaching you how to write with the senses.

Each event in this brand new Night Writer Society series is special; you’ll have time to enjoy wine and mingle with other local writers and literary enthusiasts, and more and more secrets of the quirky Night Writer Society will be revealed to you.

We’re also pleased that Almanac Beer will be our official beer sponsor for the series, which means that you’ll be able to enjoy a delicious San Francisco beer while you learn about a new craft!

And, as always, all proceeds from these events benefit 826 Valencia’s free student programs.

Get your tickets: http://bit.ly/WP0Ukh

This weekend, we got to host our favorite movement and writing workshop taught by contemporary and modern dancer Liss Fain and members of her company. You can follow Liss Fain Dance on twitter at @lissfaindance or check out the company’s website.

pictured above: high school students take a writing workshop with Vendela Vida during this year’s Young Authors’ Workshop.

Our Young Authors’ Workshop ends today with a reading at 826 Valencia at 2 PM. All are welcome to attend! Read more about this year’s Young Authors’ Workshop.

Here at 826 Valencia, we know that you can’t get any good swashbuckling done on an empty stomach. In 826 Recipe Wars, we combined our love of food with the thing we do best—make books—and came out with our latest cookbook, A Recipe to Remember!

Celia Sack, owner of Noe Valley cookbook store Omnivore Books, lent her expertise to twelve students interested in sharing their favorite recipes with a wider audience. For the workshop, each student brought in a recipe of personal significance and wrote down a memory attached to his or her dish. From Minecraft and Harry Potter to picking blackberries, students explored the connections between food and memories and personalized their recipes with hand-drawn artwork.

826 Recipe Wars culminated in a celebratory potluck where students brought in the dishes that they had written about. We sampled shrimp spring rolls, sparkling lemonade, pancit, chicken stir fry, and lemon mousse, to name a few. After stuffing ourselves silly, each participant took home an Omnivore Books Recipe Keeper (courtesy of Celia) and a copy of A Recipe to Remember. If you’d like a copy of this cookbook, you can pick one up in the Pirate Store!