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Welcome to Girls Write Now
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Mentoring The Next Generation of Women Writers Since 1998 |
Celebrate Our New Home Oct. 5
The entire Girls Write Now Community -- which includes you! -- is gathering to celebrate our new office, and look ahead to our new season. Please join us for our Houswarming on Tuesday, October 5th, from 6-8PM, hosted by the Board of Directors and the Advisory Baord. Save the date!
It's The $10K Summer Challenge: Join Us!
We met this spring's $25K goal thanks to your incredible support! And now we must accept the challenge to raise $10K more before Sept. 1, enabling our move to a new midtown headquarters large enough to fit our ever-growing programs. If we hit the $10K mark, She Writes founder Kamy Wicoff has pledged to match it dollar-for-dollar, in honor of She Writes' 1st anniversary mission to help thousands follow their dreams of becoming successful writers. Please help us take advantage of this rare opportunity with a generous summer gift.
2010 Anthology Debuts at The Final CHAPTER
Girls Write Now wrapped up the 2009-10 season with the final installment of our CHAPTERS Reading Series and the debut of the 2010 companion anthology: Where We Live. CHAPTERS showcases the original work of New York's best teen writers and the professional writers who mentor them, with a dynamic, diverse line-up of special guest authors curated by Maud Newton. Watch June's guest, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie--recently named a Top 20 Under 40 fiction writer by The New Yorker--read from The Thing Around Your Neck (Knopf, June 2009). CHAPTERS is co-sponsored by The Center for Fiction, EILEEN FISHER, American Eagle Outfitters, and glassybaby. Where We Live is made possible with a charitable contribution by Amazon.com.
Michelle Obama Honors Girls Write Now!
Girls Write Now has been honored with the prestigious 2009 Coming Up Taller Award from the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. First Lady Michelle Obama presented the award to founder and executive director Maya Nussbaum and third-year GWN mentee Tina Gao (pictured above) at the White House. Watch Tina's journey here.
This award distingushes Girls Write Now as one of the top 15 youth arts and humanities organizations in the nation. As a thank you to Mrs. Obama, we asked our girls to convey the significance of this honor in their own words. Read their incredible work here. And, watch Michelle Obama present the award to Girls Write Now on YouTube.
GWN Celebrates June Jordan with Sapphire & Feminist Press
On June 9th, Girls Write Now mentee-mentor pair Michaela Burns and Erica Dolland joined the Feminist Press and authors Sapphire, Staceyann Chin and Sofia Quintero in celebrating the much-anticipated reissue of June Jordan's 1971 young adult novel, His Own Where. Michaela and Erica read aloud their favorite passage of the book to a full audience at the Countee Cullen Library, and also joined the other guest authors in a lively panel discussion about the significance of Jordan's novel in today's society.
Significant Objects v3 Benefits Girls Write Now!
We're thrilled to announce that Significant Objects, the online literary project that recruits top creative writers to invent stories about thrift-store doodads, then sells the paired story-and-object on eBay, has donated to Girls Write Now $1,748.82—proceeds from 50 stories penned by a stellar lineup of contributors. Our most heartfelt thanks to Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn and to artists like Dara Horn, Heidi Julavits, Rick Moody, and Kate Bingaman-Burt, whose amazing print, pictured above, is STILL available in limited-edition, for the incredibly low proce of $20, courtesy of 20x200!
GWN Sends 100% of 2010 Seniors Off to College
This fall, once again, 100% of our graduating seniors are venturing off to become leaders at prestigious colleges and universities across the country, including NYU, Mount Holyoke, Wesleyan, Boston University, Yale, and more. We're so excited to see where their promising paths will lead!
Corporate Mentor of The Year
Morgan Baden, Girls Write Now third-year mentor and Communications Co-Chair and senior writer and internal communications manager for Scholastic, was honored with one of four Corporate Mentor of the Year Awards from MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Kyle Good, Scholastic's Vice President, Corporate Communications (pictured above, with Morgan), presented the award to Morgan at the ceremony emceed by Alan Schwartz, executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners, and held at Park Avenue Winter. Russell Thomas, Scholastic's Director, Internal Communications, and Morgan's mother and friends were also on hand to celebrate the award, which also included a $500 contribution to Girls Write Now. GWN second-year mentors, Alyssa Caplan, guest booker for CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, and Nicole Summer, media relations coordinator at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, were also nominated for the award. Congratulations, Morgan, Alyssa, and Nicole!
Girls Write Now Wins 2009 Youth Thrive Award!
We won! Thanks to the outpouring of support from our community, Girls Write Now has been distinguished as the top-rated Northeast small nonprofit serving youth! Please check out all our incredible reviews here. We're touched by your kind words and grateful for this honor from GreatNonprofits.org and their partners VolunteerMatch, DoSomething.org, and Guidestar.
