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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.

I'm Interested in Joining Writing 360 in 2021!

Mentoring pairs attend monthly genre and media-based workshops, led by expert teaching artists. There, mentees draft original pieces and build their portfolios throughout the year. Workshops are a jumping-off point for the weekly pair sessions where mentors guide mentees through the process of editing and polishing drafts into final products for submission to contests,  publications and presentations, including in Girls Write Now’s annual anthologies, and our popular reading & multimedia series, Girls Write Now Live.

Mentees also participate in Girls Write Now’s Writing Works programming, where they receive unique and personalized professional development, strengthening their writing and communication skills, and opening doors, on the pathway to college and career.

Writing 360 means caring for the whole writer and real relationships. The dedicated Girls Write Now team—including the mental health professionals who serve as Wellness Advisors—take this seriously with wraparound services and customized support for each mentor, mentee, and pair, day in and day out, with a passionate community backing them up and extending their reach.

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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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