At Lekha Writing Center, we seek to encourage a student’s relationship to writing to be one that is positive. We believe that the creative work or essay already exists in the students. What this means is that the students’ writing finds root in the students’ own experiences, education, and tacit knowledge of writing. The instructor’s role is to facilitate the expression of the student’s writing, guiding the students as they work and rework a story, a poem, a play, an essay, or a journalistic piece. The methods we use in our writing instruction are designed to free students from the internal critic. We utilize visualization and verbalization techniques, creative play, illustration, and other low-stakes writing activities that help students overcome writer’s block or any fears about writing. We use these methods to guide students through the different steps of the writing process—generating ideas, pre-writing strategies, drafting, and revising. We help students to address structural or grammatical issues in the writing, but only after the students have written enough to begin the revision process. At Lekha, we focus on encouraging students to write as much as they can by providing a fun and nonthreatening learning and writing environment. Lekha Publishers is a small, independent publishing house, founded in 2002 on the belief that children and youth can accomplish anything by using their imaginations. Our goal is to publish quality books written for or by children. Lekha Publishers works with the Lekha Writing Center to publish worthy young authors. We highlight specific student writers by publishing solo books. In addition to publishing students’ works, Lekha gives voice to talented and unknown authors, including adult authors, who write for children or teens. Lekha takes pride in the meticulous effort we put into each and every book we publish to ensure that all of our books are the highest possible quality. We aim to engage, entertain, and educate our readers with children’s books and young adult literature of style and substance.