The Oxbow Youth Writing Project is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering youth to find their voice through creative expression and seeing themselves as writers. During the two-week workshop, participants between the ages of nine and fifteen were exposed to many forms and styles of writing and were then given complete freedom as writers. Participants selected and edited their own work to submit to the anthology. The Oxbow Youth Writing Project is sponsored by the Oxbow Writing Project, the University of Nebraska at Omaha chapter of The National Writing Project.