盐湖城社区写作中心实体空间关闭：服务25年后团队注册非营利机构重启
位于犹他州盐湖县的盐湖城，盐湖社区学院（SLCC）社区写作中心在市中心图书馆（210 E. 400 South）服务当地居民25年多之后，实体空间已经关闭。据盐湖城本地媒体 The City Journals 10月21日报道，该中心多年来提供免费和低价的写作辅导、工作坊和社区合作项目。
中心累计有700多名志愿者参与，年度选集今年将出到第25期，旗下项目包括 Wasatch Iron Pen 24小时写作活动、Salt Lake Teens Write 青少年写作和 Utah Freedom Writers 等。关停源于预算：州议会2025年通过 HB 265 法案削减高等教育开支、各院校被要求重新分配10%的教育项目经费后，该中心去年秋天失去了拨款；今年5月29日之后，中心失去了固定的办公和活动场所。创办人兼末任主任 Tif Rousculp 说，许多社区成员曾写信请求学院不要关停它。
如今团队已经把写作中心注册为独立的非营利机构 The Community Writing Center Inc，其章程于4月29日获批，先由志愿者运转；一项社区调查收到近200份积极回应，不少人表示愿意捐款支持重启。中心的线上服务将继续向所有盐湖城居民开放，团队用八个月时间整理的中心档案也将移交州档案系统保存。
（GSM 据 The City Journals 报道）
Salt Lake City: Community Writing Center Closes Physical Space After 25 Years, Team Restarts as a Nonprofit
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Community Writing Center, formerly located in the downtown Salt Lake City Library at 210 E. 400 South in Salt Lake County, has closed its physical space after providing free and low-cost writing coaching, workshops and community programs to local residents for over 25 years, The City Journals reported on October 21.
The center has run its programs with the help of over 700 volunteers, and its annual anthology will now print its 25th edition; its programs include the Wasatch Iron Pen 24-hour event, Salt Lake Teens Write and Utah Freedom Writers. The closure followed budget cuts: the center lost its funding last fall after the state legislature passed HB 265 in 2025, cutting higher-education spending and requiring institutions to reallocate 10 percent of their educational programs. After May 29 of this year, the center was left without a permanent home base. Founding and final director Tif Rousculp said many community members wrote letters asking the college not to close it.
The team has since registered the center as an independent nonprofit, The Community Writing Center Inc, whose articles of incorporation were approved on April 29; it will be volunteer-run at first. Nearly 200 community members responded positively to a team survey, saying they would donate to help restart it. The center's online services will continue to be available to all Salt Lake residents, and an archive of its work, assembled over eight months, will go into the state archive system. (GSM, based on The City Journals reporting)
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图片来源：盐湖城市中心图书馆主馆外景实景图，社区写作中心原设于该馆。图片：Streamline1989，Public domain，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Exterior of the Salt Lake City Public Library main branch, where the Community Writing Center was located. Photo: Streamline1989, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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