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25 Years of Writing: Discuss the Themes & Values that Guide Our Work
Thursday, Oct. 6
6-7 PM ET
online event; open to all mentees, mentors, program alumni, & Diversity Committee members
At our first Editorial Forum of the program year, we’ll discuss the themes and ideas that Girls Write Now has been writing about for the past 25 years and look to the future to think about the ideas we want to represent with our work moving forward.
Hosted by Our Editors-in-Residence
Kathryn Destin
Kathryn is a nonprofit researcher and writer and also was the 2022-23 Editor-In-Residence for Girls Write Now. An only child from Harlem, NYC, Kathryn looks for community in many spaces centered on her interests such as cooking, comedy, Blackness, queerness and investigative journalism. She is a Girls Write Now mentee and is fascinated by film, media and writing as avenues for social advocacy and activism. As a young creative, she is excited to utilize various mediums to speak against injustice and share stories from marginalized voices.
Morayo Faleyimu
Morayo Faleyimu is currently serving as an Editor-in-Residence at Girls Write Now. She is a writer of short and long-form fiction. A nonfiction writer by trade, Morayo uses fiction to explore emotional truths. The seeds of story, she believes, are planted in everyday life. A writer’s duty is to pay attention and to garden with care. A former educator, Morayo currently works as a professional development writer for a school network in New Jersey.
This event is open to:
all mentees, all mentors, diversity committee members, program alum, publishing 360 mentees and publishing 360 mentors