Ink Spot @ Noble engages middle school students in the literary arts after school throughout the school year.  During the program, youth receive homework support and are engaged in thematic creative expression activities that inspire and encourage artistic expression, creative thinking and literacy enrichment through the written word. Ink Spot youth hone their writing and communication skills and express themselves through various artistic genres, including plays, comics, poems, fiction, non-fiction, songwriting, and more. Youth participants meet and engage with professional writers and artists who serve as guest educators. Not only do participants write across genres, but they also share their creative work with each other, family, friends and the larger community through readings and bound anthologies.