The Metro Denver Promotion of Letters (MDPL) mission is to help students, ages 5 to 18, become skilled at communicating by offering individualized tutoring, writing workshops, and educational events.

Following in the footsteps of the 826 centers, we will have a writing-tutoring center and a commercial storefront that invites the public to participate in our fun. After much brain-storming, the local Denver founders decided that Denver would benefit most from an old-time mercantile store, one that connects our Western heritage with our modern, technological present. Latching onto a specific sci-fi genre, steampunk, we found our inspiration. Steampunk works celebrate the Wild West and Victorian eras while looking forward to the final frontier of space and time travel. This theme and store will allow us to draw people into our mission while still having fun and sparking their imaginations.

We have a few committed individuals who are creating programming, looking for a location, and attempting to raise money and make connections. Now, more than ever, we need help from other committed people who are willing to volunteer their time, effort, and passion for writing to help students. If you would like more information about volunteering, please email Amanda Lueck Grell, amanda.lueck@promotionofletters.org, for more information.