Events

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Between Fall and Spring: Mentor Training, Part II

Start: 12:00 pm

End: 3:00 pm

**Fall and Spring**
Mentor Training, Part II

Mentors, you’ve been together with your mentee for a few months now: long enough to fall in love, become firmly ensconced in like, and pinpoint any challenges to the growth of your relationship. The cold, gray space between fall and spring – that is, midway through the Girls Write Now season – is the ideal time to take a closer look at your mentoring experience and pick up some tools to help you out through the remainder of the season.

Lead by GWN Advisory Board member Julie May, NCPsyA, LP, LCAT, Mentor Training, Part II will highlight YOUR needs and concerns as mentors, as well as:

Helpful hints for moving between talking and writing
“She Never Calls Me Back,” and other mentoring adventures
“We’re in a Rut:” Tips for jumpstarting your pair sessions
Editing and Criticism: tips for empowering your mentee to master her own inner editor

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Submission Deadline

Start: 6:00 pm

SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS

SUBMISSION DEADLINE JAN 13, 2009

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards offer local and national scholarship opportunities for students around the country, and GWN is proud to count many winners among our ranks!

Submitting a piece into the contest is a program requirement for all new and returning mentees, and the deadline is 6pm, Jan. 13!

Here's what you need to know:

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

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Annual Winter Reading

Start: 5:00 pm

End: 7:00 pm

2009 Winter Reading Postcard

Please join us for a night of creativity and collaboration at the Girls Write Now Annual Winter Reading on Saturday, January 17, 2009, 5-7 PM.

The event is co-sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture, located at 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West, and features special guest speaker, Judy Blundell, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for her novel, What I Saw and How I Lied.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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GWN Editing Workshop Planning Meeting

Start: 6:30 pm

End: 9:30 pm

“You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist, you are learning your craft- then you can add all the genius you like.” -- Phyllis Whitney

At this meeting, GWN Editing Workshop leaders will use these words as inspiration as they develop writing exercises, activities, and more to help mentees and fellow mentors successfully harness the desire to create art to the craftsman-editor within to help them create something amazing. Mentors, looking for your workshop teammates? Click here.

GWN Workshop Planning Meeting