Katie Eder

Katie Eder

Sixteen-year-old Katie Eder, one of the International Literacy Association's inaugural 30 Under 30 Literacy Champions, started Kids Tales, a nonprofit that runs creative writing workshops for kids ages 8–12, two years ago when she was in eighth grade.

My goal for Kids Tales, and in general, is for every kid in the country and around the world to have the chance to be an author because the kids you see writing stories aren't necessarily the ones with the ability, it's probably more because they are the kids with the opportunity. So the goal with Kids Tales is to give every kid—no matter their situation, no matter how much money they have or where they live—the opportunity to write and publish a book."

During a Kids Tales workshop, kids spend one week brainstorming, writing, and editing their own short story. At the end of the week, the stories are assembled in a collection and self-published as an anthology on Amazon.com.

The teachers in Kids Tales workshops are teenagers—one of the main components of Kids Tales workshops is that kids teach kids.

Katie Eder has appeared in the following PEACE Fund Radio episodes: