Vegas Stripped: Writer’s Block bookstore in downtown helping local students — VIDEO

Books and other items are shown Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015, at The Writer's Block, a book store at 1020 Fremont St . in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015. (Donavon Lockett/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Local resident rabbit "The Baron" sits in a cage, inside the book shop at 1020 Fremont St., The Writer's Block, Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015. (Donavon Lockett/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Local resident rabbit "The Baron" sits in a cage, inside the book shop at 1020 Fremont St., The Writer's Block, Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015. (Donavon Lockett/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The Writer's Block, a book store at 1020 Fremont St . in Las Vegas, is shown Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015. (Donavon Lockett/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The Writer's Block, a book store at 1020 Fremont St . in Las Vegas, is shown Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015. (Donavon Lockett/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Books and other items are shown in the children's section Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015, at The Writer's Block, a book store at 1020 Fremont St . in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015. (Donavon Lockett/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Books and other items are shown Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015, at The Writer's Block, a book store at 1020 Fremont St . in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015. (Donavon Lockett/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Drew Cohen is one of the owners of Writer’s Block, a bookstore with a goal to envelop local students with skills of creative writing.

Writer’s Block opened in downtown Las Vegas, 1020 Fremont St., in February 2015 and is owned by Cohen and Scott Seeley.

The Writer’s Block sells new books, stationery imported from all over the world, board games, quirky trinkets and other types of toys that give the store its distinctive personality.

Check out more about the bookstore here.

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