Girls Write Now
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 &…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…