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Saturday, January 31, 2009

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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 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.

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

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Between Desire and Rejection: GWN Editing Workshop

Start: 11:00 am

End: 4:15 pm

**Desire and Rejection**
2008-09 Girls Write Now Editing Workshop

“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

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.” -- Robert Cormier

These few words from fellow writers completely capture the essence of this workshop, designed to help mentors and mentees successfully harness the desire to create art to the craftsman-editor within to help them create something amazing. Highlights:

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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GWN Playwriting Workshop Planning Meeting

Start: 6:30 pm

End: 9:00 pm

What does it take to turn a story idea into a dramatic script? At this meeting GWN Playwriting Workshop leaders will develop writing exercises, activities and more to help mentees and mentors learn the art and craft of developing stories for the stage.

GWN Workshop Planning Meeting