Writers Finding Room: A Dedicated Space for Creativity in Downtown Boston

By Jessica A. Kent
Nov. 7, 2018

The Writers’ Room of Boston, opened in 1988, is celebrating thirty years of being an “urban writers' retreat committed to providing a quiet, affordable, and secure workspace for emerging and established writers.” Originally located in the Transportation Building on Boylston Street, it’s made its home for the last decade on State Street, on the fifth floor of a building located between the Custom House and the Old State House, just up from Long Wharf. And the Writers’ Room is evolving into a storied Boston literary institution worthy of its historic location. An article in the New York Times from 1989 on the Writers’ Room shows that although the location has changed, little else has: The Writers’ Room provides desks, chairs, sparse interiors, and opportunity to writers looking for a space, both physically and mentally, to create.

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