This year’s QWERTY: The Digital Exhibiton is just around the corner! Can’t wait to see all the amazing work? Check out some sneak peeks! Our Digital Media Mentoring Program mentees are beyond excited to debut the projects they have been working on all year at The New-York Historical Society on June 1st. Their projects range from videos overlaid…
PERIOD PLAYWRITING WITH THE ASSOCIATES THEATER
This blog post was written by mentee Janiah Taylor on our April period playwriting workshop with The Associate’s Theater members, Peregrine Teng-Heard and Lauren LaRocca. I remember last year for one of the workshops, we did something similar to playwriting. The task seemed challenging at first because – me being a first year mentee then – I…
Thank You Tanzina Vega for Supporting Girls Write Now!
This blog post was written by Spencer George, Communications Intern. “So we write— to feel good, to let it out, to tell our stories, to create a legacy. And we read— to learn our history, to escape, to experience other things, and also to know that we’re not alone.“ — Tanzina Vega, host of The…
March CHAPTERS with Molly Crabapple
This blog post was written by Molly Mellott, Development Intern. On a cool, clear March evening, Girls Write Now kicked off our 20th Anniversary celebrations with our first CHAPTERS reading of the season. Hosted by mentee/mentor pair Gia Deeton and Lindsay Zoladz, this reading followed a theme involving navigating identities in this modern day and…
APPLY TO BE A GIRLS WRITE NOW MENTOR OR MENTEE!
Mentor-Mentee Pair Jenny and Kendra Write the Future: Applications are open to be a mentor or mentee. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis, so submit early and by June 1st! Girls Write Now is a dynamic, multigenerational community of women on a mission. As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, our nationally award-winning programs continue to provide creative and academic…
PEN World Voices Festival 2018
The PEN World Voices Festival returns this April 16th-22nd! Join PEN America for this year’s festival, themed “Resist and Reimagine”, featuring over 165 writers and artists representing over 50 nationalities. At this moment of great division, come together to celebrate the power of creative work through conversations, debates, readings and workshops as we take a…
MAGICAL REALISM WORKSHOP WITH BROOKE OBIE
This blog post was written by mentee Nneka Ulu on our March magical realism workshop with novelist and former mentor, Brooke Obie. To be frank, I have never given the genre of magical realism a second glance before. I scoffed, politely of course, at the idea of attending a three hour workshop on a genre…
JOIN SHE WRITES UNIVERSITY THIS SPRING
Girls Write Now is proud to partner with She Writes for She Writes University, an eight week series of writing classes for writers, by writers! She Writes University kicked off on April 5 with a class on finding your literary voice from National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, and each class will feature other sensational instructors including Lisa Ko, Christina Baker Kline, Caroline Leavitt, Carly…
STARS Citywide Girls Initiative 4th Annual Summit
Girls Write Now partners to launch the 4th Annual Girls Leadership Summit a project of the New York City Council’s STARS Citywide Girls Initiative All middle and high school girls and gender non-conforming youth are welcome to join us on Wednesday, April 4 — RSVP here! — #STARSnycgirls — Follow us on Facebook (NEW YORK, February 20, 2018) On April…
Visit the set of Broad City and Have Lunch with Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer
No one knows better than Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer that when women have the agency to write stories, they take back the power of creating narrative. Girls Write Now is helping to foster that power in the next generation of women writers. We’re excited to announce that from February 14th to April 3rd, a…
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