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Between Fall and Spring: Mentor Training, Part II
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
**Fall and Spring**
Mentor Training, Part II

Mentor Training 2
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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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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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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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

 

When: 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Where: Girls Write Now
520 Eighth Avenue
(bet. W. 36th and W. 37th Streets)
20th Floor
Hopstop/NYC Transit

 

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Between Up and Down: Mid-year Portfolio Check-in Day
Start: 11:30 am
End: 3:30 pm
**Up and Down**
Mid-Year Portfolio Check-in Day

Portfolio and Pair Check In Day

 

Portfolio Requirements Due by Jan. 31

Make sure your portfolio has all of the following pieces in it prior to your appointment on Jan. 31st.

  1. Pre-Year Portfolio Statement & Biography (download guidelines below)
  2. Memoir (draft, does not have to be typed, any length)
  3. Poetry (draft, does not have to be typed, any length)
  4. Fiction (draft, does not have to be typed, any length)
  5. Pair Reading Piece (final copy)
  6. Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Submission (final copy)

 

This day is all about YOU – mentees and mentors. You’ve been together for a few months now: long enough to have experienced some ups and a few downs in your mentoring relationship as well as your writing. Far from a conventional “parent-teacher conference” this is a chance for pairs to review their work together; our goal in analyzing your portfolio and your relationship is not to figure out how Girls Write Now can help you succeed in fulfilling your goals as a writer.

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