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Saturday, January 10, 2009
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
**Fall and Spring**
Mentor Training, Part II
Mentor Training, Part II
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
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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:
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 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.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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.
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.
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
Where: Girls Write Now
520 Eighth Avenue
(bet. W. 36th and W. 37th Streets)
20th Floor
Hopstop/NYC Transit
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Start: 11:30 am
End: 3:30 pm
**Up and Down**
Mid-Year Portfolio Check-in Day
Mid-Year Portfolio 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.
- Pre-Year Portfolio Statement & Biography (download guidelines below)
- Memoir (draft, does not have to be typed, any length)
- Poetry (draft, does not have to be typed, any length)
- Fiction (draft, does not have to be typed, any length)
- Pair Reading Piece (final copy)
- 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.
