Girls Write Now
At Girls Write Now, “Writing Works” means growing a writing and technology pipeline into the schools and industries that need your talents most.
In Writing Works, we mentor young women and gender non-conforming youth to be creative thinkers, clear communicators, and competitive candidates for the trails they choose to blaze—across all industries from publishing and advertising to entertainment, finance, and beyond.
Are you a gamer or a creative person interested in telling stories visually? The video game business is now the major industry in entertainment! It’s larger than both the movie and music industries combined. In this workshop, attendees created their own digital game for social change, education, or entertainment, with Momo Pixel, a multidisciplinary artist, video…
Forbes and Girls Write Now met for an intergenerational exchange through the act of letter writing! Young writers, “Mentees For The Day,” and Forbes employees, “Mentors For The Day,” were be led by a Girls Write Now facilitator through a series of prompts to write letters and help each other through this unusual and anxiety-producing…
The first step to any book idea is to write a fantastic query letter. At this two-part workshop, we learned to shape and share query letters and recieved expert feedback from some of the top literary agents in publishing. PART 1: A QUERY LETTER WRITING WORKSHOP We learned how to write an effective query letter…
Our first TV Writing Bootcamp session was led by Priscila García-Jacquier! We began learning all about TV Writing—the three-act structure, what it’s like to work in the industry, and what it takes to make it!
During the first workshop of this three-part series, NYU Clinical Associate Professor Susanna Horng gave mentees tips and recommendations on how to take personal statements to the next level. Dividing into small seminar-style groups, mentees had the opportunity to get and give feedback on their drafts through Active Listening. The second part of the series…
At this week’s Writing Works event, we learned to turn our frustrations, viewpoints, and passionate beliefs into an Op-Ed during this workshop led by Girls Write Now mentee alum and recent New York University graduate Romaissaa Benzizoune! Romaissaa’s work has been published by The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Buzzfeed, McSweeney’s, and more. Previously, she had…
We’d never let you settle for a dry, meandering, lackluster profile. Girls Write Now ROCKED IT at our Writing Works Profile Workshop in partnership with LinkedIn! Youth and professional adults alike joined us for the workshop, led by Ruthie Hertzberg, Profile Ambassador and Senior Enterprise Relationship Manager at LinkedIn, and Marjorie Cader, Co-Founder of…
At our Writing Works Career Day, we learned how to implement creativity in the workday, wrote using prompts related to specific careers, heard about the personal journeys of professionals, found out about jobs in writing that make money—and asked all f our burning questions about what careers look like in today’s world!
Girls Write Now proudly hosted Letters to Young Writers in collaboration with Comcast NBCUnites to engage employees—Mentors for the Day—through letter-writing about their personal and professional journeys while learning about the experiences of diverse NYC youth.
Our May Writing Works Wellness Wednesday workshop with Warner Media focused on the importance of personal wellness to help achieve professional and academic success—an especially important workshop during this time!
Our Brilliant Friends, an After Dinner Book Club & Watch Party hosted by Europa Editions, recently partnered with Girls Write Now for the final episode of the series, which ran every Monday at 9PM EST and celebrated the Elena Ferrante novels and the HBO adaptation of My Brilliant Friend. All proceeds raised from the event went…
Struggling to find balance in periods of uncertainty? This resource is from Writing Works Workshop: What The F*ck! Embrace The Change You Didn’t Ask For with Comedian and Life Coach Katie Goodman! Embracing the unknown is a difficult thing to do, but learning to be comfortable with the uncomfortable is one of the best life…
The idea of this organization is women helping women to sharpen their pen, and by extension their power. As a girl growing up in Ukraine, I devoured novels because they gave me access to worlds outside of my physical reach. Girls Write Now helps young women build the confidence to share their voices, using the…
Girls Write Now is giving young women the tools and confidence to tell their stories, and fostering a new generation of writers. These girls are being not only told but shown that their words matter. It is hard to find a more inspiring model than this, and Dutton is so proud of bringing these voices…
Girls Write Now is proud to be a long-standing partner with Agent of Change HBO/WarnerMedia, embracing our joint mission to amplify diverse voices and create a pipeline of talent into the entertainment industry. Recently, Girls Write Now aligned with HBO/WarnerMedia for an employee engagement workshop—an educational pop-up— that engaged and inspired girls and employees with…
Writing works. Take it from Girls Write Now mentee alum Kat Jagai, who used their writing skills to land a paid internship at top publishing house Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—that led to their dream job at Alloy Entertainment/Warner Media. This is just one of the many success stories coming out of our new workforce development program, Writing Works. “Girls Write Now works,” mentee alum Kat says…
Forbes + Girls Write Now = Day of Impact. Girls Write Now was thrilled to join forces with Forbes this summer for an exclusive journalism workshop where girls worked one-to-one with the pros, and got a behind-the-scenes look into the influential Forbes brand that has helped transform the magazine industry. Sure to grace the pages…
At Girls Write Now’s Career Day on June 22, 2019, hundreds of high school girls learned about the importance of writing through intimate conversation with mentors and role models across over 20 industries, from publishing, journalism, and advertising, to gaming, finance, digital media, and so much more. We are indebted to the N-Y Historical Society…
Girls Write Now was honored to partner with HBO in celebration of Women’s History Month. Together we developed a writing workshop that took place on March 22nd in The Inspiration Room—a pop-up exhibit on Lafayette Street meant to showcase “the power of authentic, unedited voices.” It was a full house, and the energy in…
Our vision is surpassed by reality. RBC is 100% behind this partnership —Pat Shields, Head of US Corporate Banking at RBC Girls Write Now is thrilled to forge a partnership with RBC Corporate Banking to help roll out our “Writing Works” initiative. As a corporate partner of Girls Write Now, RBC is not only making…
Contact us to learn more about how you can partner with Girls Write Now to achieve diversity in publishing. Panelists from the field discussed the need for more diverse voices in the publishing industry and how Girls Write Now is changing the game. (April 17, 2019, New York, NY). The publishing industry came together to kick…
Girls Write Now’s new partnership with Agent of Change Houghton Mifflin Harcourt fast-tracks efforts to provide underserved young women with professional development and career opportunities. Learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Girls Write Now are kicking off a pilot internship program at HMH’s New York office as part of Girls Write Now’s Writing Works initiative. This spring, HMH will…
This blog post was written by Christina Drill, Girls Write Now Senior Program Coordinator. On the first summer Friday in July, Hannah, our Communications Manager, and I met Girls Write Now mentee superstars Zaw Gordon, Leilah Fagan, and Kirby-Estar Laguerre in front of ABC Studios on West 66th. The girls were about to partake in…