Writing 360 Program

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.

Applications for the 2021 – 2022 program year are closed. Complete our Inquiry Form to be notified when enrollment for the 2022 – 2023 program year opens.

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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.

Pod Presentations

At these final Saturday w360 workshops, Audio, Poetry & Prose, Nonfiction, Activism & Justice, Website Editorial, Wellness, Publication Editorial, Social Media and Visual Arts pods showed the community what they envisioned for their projects as they presented their Pod Proposal and/or Pod Project. We shared highlights from the year and celebrated the amazing work produced…

Data Storytelling: Research for Social Change with Angelica Puzio

At this workshop, Angelica broke down the myth that research and data are inaccessible and boring, and instead experience the thrill of telling a story by embracing data as a powerful tool for social justice. In this workshop, participants learned what researchers actually do including how to create a research question, how to form hypotheses,…

Musical Theatre: Songwriting using Soundtrap with Lindsay Burstedt

You don’t need to be a trained musician to write and produce a hit song! In this workshop, we learned the art of music-making and songwriting using the online digital workstation, Soundtrap. After learning the music process from idea to lyrics to song, we worked in small groups to develop a chorus that can be…

YA Fiction: Making Tropes Fresh with Arriel Vinson

Tropes—you can’t live with them and you can’t live without them! Almost every YA author uses a trope, and every YA author has an opinion about them. In this workshop, we learned about as many YA tropes as possible while exploring how different types of characters can give tropes a unique twist. Using writing prompts…

Journalism: Storytelling & Mediums with Masuma Ahuja

Who, what, when, where, why! Journalism isn’t only about finding a story and the best way to tell it, it’s also about finding the best platform/medium to share the story (i.e. Instagram, diary entries, disposable cameras, voicemails and more!). In this workshop, participants learned how to identify a story and how to report it. They…

Screenwriting: Writing FOR Images with Sherese Lee Robinson

In this workshop, we learned all about writing a full-length feature film and started on our very own screenplay! In this workshop, we conceptualized writing for film using the screenplay medium – diving into images, sound, physical action and dialogue. With entertainment and streaming platforms rising in popularity, the film industry is always in need…

Immersive Media: Writing From Images with Brooke David

In this workshop, we dove into a new language of art as we learned to write narratives based on visual experiences like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)! Immersive Media is a broad, innovative field in its infancy. In these initial stages of “new art”, the opportunity and sense of collaboration are plentiful because…

W360 Mentor Midyear Workshop

At the halfway point of the program year, we regrouped and recharged at Mentor Midyear Training! We celebrated mentors’ hard work and their mentees’ accomplishments, while forging a path through the rest of the program year. We were joined by two experts in the field: Andrea Plasko, who led a section on Wellness Strategies &…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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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