Participate in Girls Write Now workshops at your own pace with these interactive workshops, designed to support you step-by-step in honing your writing skills across genre, medium, and format. Get support with everything from college essay and personal statement writing to fanfiction and songwriting— all on your own time.
College Writing
Craft Your College Application Essay with Dotdash Meredith: Getting Personal Interactive Workshop
Join Clinical Professor in Liberal Studies at NYU Susanna Horng and Dotdash Meredith to learn how to approach writing your personal statement.
Getting Personal: Craft Your College Application Essay with HarperCollins Interactive Workshop
HarperCollins and Girls Write Now meet to help young writers take their college application personal statements to the next level!
Craft Your College Application Essay with Scholastic: Getting Personal Interactive Workshop
Join Girls Write Now, Teaching Artist Susanna Horng, and Scholastic for guidance in the process of planning and writing your personal statement.
Easing Your Education Financial Burden Interactive Workshop
Join us to learn about the difference between scholarships, loans and grants as you start to draft a scholarship essay of your own.
Creative Writing
Crafting Fanfiction: Extending the Life of Stories We Love
Do you ever imagine new worlds and stories for your favorite fictional characters or new characters for your favorite fictional worlds? Then this is the workshop for YOU! In this workshop, GWN Mentor and fan culture expert Elizabeth Minkel will give a brief primer on fanfiction before diving into a variety of craft exercises. With a focus on characterization, perspective, tone, and plot, participants will create their own fanfiction story.
Heart on Your Sleeve: Personal Storytelling Through Tattoos Interactive Workshop
Interested in tattoo culture? Want to learn how to design your own tattoo? This workshop is anchored in indigenous cultural tattoo practices and will provide participants with an opportunity to find visual means to express their identities and personal stories.
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Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Apply by July 10, 2023 to be eligible for the 2023-2024 year.