This blog post was written by Madhurie Parasram, Girls Write Now First Year Mentee in our Digital Media Mentoring Program. Madhurie co-hosted the 2017 QWERTY Digital Media Exhibition with her mentor Emma DeFelice on June 2nd. The event showcased work created by mentees in our Digital Media Mentoring Program throughout the 2016-2017 academic year, alongside a panel…

“My goals as a writer were to talk about myself in a way that would best reflect who I am, not only as a person but also someone to rely on and someone to be interested in. I achieved these goals, because not only did writing about myself in the way I wanted get me…

Are you an avid reader? We are looking for book recommendations from our followers to feature each Friday on our media accounts! If chosen, your recommendation will be featured on our social media with a short blurb about the book. In celebration of the launch of #GWNFollowerFriday, we will be giving away a copy of…

This blog post was written by Spencer George, Communications Intern. As if finding a good book with strong female characters isn’t hard enough, finding books by and about LGBTQ+ female characters is even harder. But with more and more authors writing and publishing diverse books, representation for LGBTQ+ identifying females continues to expand. From cult-classics to essay collections to…

Program Manager REVIEWS Read below for our reviews of books by our dear friends, Janet Mock, Roxane Gay and Margaret Atwood! “For me as a young person, books were my very first escape as a young person,” Janet Mock told Girls Write Now last spring when she was writing Surpassing Certainty. “They were the spaces of refuge that allowed me…