The pursuit of writing in its many aspects is alive and very well at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester’s Grove Hall neighborhood where the non-profit 826 Boston’s writing and tutoring program has set up shop.

826 Boston is a non-profit organization of some 2,500 volunteers from the Boston community, including professional writers, artists, and teachers, that since 2007 has provided free writing and tutoring programs for Boston students ages 6 to 18. More than 600 of the volunteers, who form supportive partnerships with 150 teachers, regularly devote their time and talents to 826 Boston programs that serve more than 3,500 students annually.

Recently, 826 Boston welcomed Boston Public Schools officials, teachers, and community partners to the Writers’ Room at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School where two Burke students presented work that they had published in the Writers’ Room.

The 826 Boston program at the Burke is operated in partnership with Northeastern University. The Writers’ Room is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. four days a week. During the school day, it hosts whole classes to work with volunteer tutors on academic writing assignments. After school, the room is a hub for extracurricular creative writing activities. Students are forming a slam poetry team, a journalism club, and a novel-writing club.

“We want to take this opportunity to thank the generous supporters of the Writers’ Room program, who made it possible to open this writing-focused space at the Burke,” said 826 Boston Executive Director Jessica Drench at the gathering.

“You’re only as good as the people you’re surrounded by,” said Burke Headmaster Lindsa McIntyre, who praised the progress so far, noting that the Writers’ Room has had an impressive start in “teaching writing in the real world.”

The room is fueled by service member and volunteer support through partnerships with Commonwealth Corps and Northeastern and is generously supported by individual donors to 826 Boston, with foundation support from The Boston Globe Foundation, The Calderwood Writing Initiative, Liberty Mutual Foundation Education Initiative, The Ludcke Foundation, and State Street Foundation.

826 Boston also operates at Writers’ Rooms at the John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science in Roxbury. Building on the success of that pilot program, 826 Boston launched a strategic initiative to open at least one new Writers’ Room in a Boston public school each year for the next five years. After the Burke opening this year, the organization will open a third room next year, this time in a K-8 school, with generous funding provided by a Catalyst Gift from The Wellington Management Foundation.

As to its name, the 826 National program opened its flagship chapter at 826 Valencia St. in San Francisco and has kept the number in introducing new chapters across the country.