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Writing 360 Program

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Girls Write Now’s curriculum and services have evolved over the past 23 years to include the full range of writing for different stages of life throughout high school, to college, career and beyond. Writing today means multi-genre, multimedia, multi-platform communication—everything from storytelling to coding. Our mentees are defining the digital age, bringing the craft of writing into the 21st century.

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About the Writing 360 Program

Writing 360 is our yearlong intensive mentoring program, matching underserved high school girls/gender nonconforming youth with women professional writers for a one-to-one mentorship, structured around creative, critical and digital skill-based programming and services. Mentees create at the intersection of language, technology, and art, exploring sub-genres within poetry, fiction, memoir, journalism and screen/playwriting, and learning digital skills such as audio and video editing, coding and design.

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Thrilly Chilly January: Mentee Midyear Workshop

At Thrilly Chilly January Mentee Midyear Workshop, mentees got to know each other through dynamic small group story creation and cozy peer support sessions. At this workshop, they were part of the Class of 2021 Anthology title reveal and brainstorm, connected with more mentees in the program, and worked together to create Thriller fiction facilitated…

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Reality: Documentary Filmmaking, Telling Stories with a Smartphone with Olivia Abtahi

No camera? No problem. In this workshop, we learned how to utilize smartphones to film, edit, and create documentary films. According to the International Documentary Association (IDA), “The evolving digital era presents new opportunities for documentary makers and audiences as platforms shift, new storytellers emerge and media systems transform. Documentary has long enjoyed a vibrant…

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Animation: Storytelling in Motion

Escape: Animation with Lisa LaBracio

This workshop taught us to express story ideas visually and how to dazzle an audience with moving images. Animation is a booming digital medium that allows for unique artistic expression. In this workshop, we looked at examples of different animation techniques, were introduced to the principles of animation, learned how to give movements meaning and…

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Memoir: Your Environmental Story

Reality: Your Environmental Story with Kristy Drutman

In this workshop, we began to tell our stories based on personal and ancestral connections to the environment. Using a grounding exercise, we learned how to access the safe space in nature we all store in our bodies. Kristy led us to arrive at language to unburden ourselves of the world we were born into,…

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Romance Fiction with Donna Hill

Escape: Romance Fiction with Donna Hill

In this workshop, Writing 360 pairs learned how to set the scene for your romance and choose the subgenre. Romance is a consistently best-selling form of fiction and you can be a part of that. Learn how to create obstacles and compelling characters and how to put the emotion on the page so that your…

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Life Resources and Events

At Girls Write Now, we are saddened and horrified by the domestic terrorism grounded in the systemic racism and inequality we work as a community to challenge and change every day. We are here to support you individually and as a community through our robust programming. Check out our calendar to see our current offerings or visit our Life Resources page to support you during this time. 

We’re Hiring!

Looking for more purpose-driven work in the new year? Check out available roles to join the team! 

Friday Night Salon with Arisa White

Join us on Friday, January 15, 6-7:30PM EST for Memory, Metaphor & Magic: Writing Poetic Memoir with Arisa White!

GIVE. WRITE. NOW. And Thank you!!

Girls Write Now’s services are more essential than ever before—serving the hardest hit communities—and many of our young women and gender nonconforming youth have themselves become essential workers to help their families. They carry an enormous burden and face devastating loss, slipping further into poverty. To meet the need, we have enriched and extended our programs, leading the historical transition to virtual learning.

Get Involved!

Are you a licensed mental health professional who’d love to work with our community of writers and creatives? We’re seeking volunteer Wellness Advisors. Get more info & apply here!

Relive the Girls (Re)Write Now Awards

If you missed the awards, you can still watch it! Relive this revolutionary night of mini–master classes with honorees on empathy, art, activism & humor and Girls Write Now mentees on writing with purpose, climate justice & self-care. 

Writing from our Future Leaders

Taking Our Place in History: the Girls Write Now 2020 Anthology was published with support from Dutton and Amazon Literary Partnership, available for purchase from McNally Jackson Books and anywhere ebooks are sold!

Girls Write Now in the News

Girls Write Now’s work has recently been featured by the National Endowment for the Arts, Time Out New York, NYXT and more!

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