Bustle August 16th, 2018 Girls Write Now mentee alumna Fanta Camara writes for Bustle, “My Mandinka Family Wanted Me To Get Married Young — But I Decided To Get An Education Instead”, and discusses Girls Write Now’s impact on her life. See more by Bustle Return to Media Mentions
Girls Write Now’s First Theme Think Tank
This blog post was written by Girls Write Now’s new Community Outreach Coordinator, Kyndal Thomas. Girls Write Now mentees are at a unique point in their lives, in a unique moment in time—and they have a lot to say! This year, we brainstormed with mentees and alumni to begin developing the theme for the 2019…
Books Are Magic & Emma Straub Support Our New Book
Books Are Magic and Emma Straub are hosting an event on Wednesday, October 17 to celebrate the book launch for Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices (Tin House). Please join us and pre-order the book. The book is a passion project that we’re eager to share with the world because the stories of…
Introducing our Senior Community Outreach Coordinator
iemi Hernandez-Kim is a Girls Write Now mentee alumna from 2003-2006. She’s excited to be an employee of an organization that brought her so many opportunities over a decade ago. She graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and worked in advertising with brands such as Carol’s Daughter and Tiffany’s. She’s a member of the…
WELCOME MENTORS, MENTEES & ALUM: OUR BIGGEST CLASS EVER!
Girls Write Now is excited to welcome our newest class of mentees and mentors for the 2018-2019 program year! This year, we increased enrollment by nearly 10% making this our largest class ever of 300 combined mentors and mentees. We are also thrilled to welcome two new staffers to the Girls Write Now family. Mentor…
BACK TO SCHOOL SHOPPING LIST: Books that Give Back
Get ready for the new school year with great gifts that support Girls Write Now! Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices (Tin House) Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices (Tin House) can be preordered now, so why wait? Just visit Books Are Magic. The book showcases…
Meet Our New Director of Community Outreach
Erica Silberman fell in love with Girls Write Now when she group-taught a playwriting workshop for them in 2005. Through the years, she has stayed involved with the organization as a mentor, a teacher in various outreach programs, and a member of both the Program Advisory Committee and the Host Committee. Erica comes to Girls Write…
Girls Write Now gets ready for college
As Girls Write Now celebrates 20 years, we are thoughtful about our past and looking forward to our future. One particularly poignant moment was watching 52 seniors in our Class of 2018 graduate from the program. Our incredible seniors have earned hundreds of acceptances at numerous colleges around the country — and even the world!…
Mentees Attend Q&A with Tomi Adeyemi and Jimmy Fallon
Mentee Maxx Carr, who attends LaGuardia High School, absolutely loved Tomi Adeyemi’s book, The Children of Blood and Bone (Macmillan). Girls Write Now was honored to receive an invitation from Macmillan and the Tonight Show to join Tomi Adeyemi and Jimmy Fallon, for the Tonight Show’s Summer Reading Series. Here, Maxx shares her experience. On…
Samhita Mukhopadhyay urges followers to check out Girls Write Now and the 2018 Anthology
Samhita Mukhopadhyay May 30, 2018 Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Executive Editor of Teen Vogue, tweeted that she was honored to write the intro to Generation F and recommended that her followers check out Girls Write Now and the 2018 anthology. See more on Sahmita’s Twitter Return to Media Mentions
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