Girls Write Now
Collaboratory
The Girls Write Now Collaboratory is our central home for connecting and creating as a community. The doors are now open for Mentors, Mentees, and Members from all walks of life and across the country to join us this fall. Welcome!
Home for a Multi-Generational Community to Connect & Create
In the Collaboratory, we take a 360° approach to developing the whole writer: academically at the intersection of arts and social justice; professionally across all industries; and personally in a healing-centered space.
The Collaboratory Model
All Collaboratory experiences combine writing, mentoring, and community in different combinations. Select and customize one that is just right for your personal and professional interests, schedule, goals, and passions across a broad range genres, media, and topics, including college, career, and leadership development.
Girls Write Now
Girls Write Now Mentors
Girls Write Now mentors are professionals, typically ages 25 and up, from all fields and disciplines, and from around the nation. They work with curiosity and collaboration, learning and growing, while supporting their mentees’ writing and leadership needs and goals.
Girls Write Now Mentees
Mentees at Girls Write Now are writers and leaders, typically between the ages of 14-24, from around the nation. Through a lens of creativity and activism, mentees produce stories, podcasts, poems, films, and more with the support of a mentor and the Girls Write Now community.
Girls Write Now Members
If you’d prefer not to make a time commitment as a Journey Mentor or Mentee, you can become a Member and still access a selection of our Writing, Mentoring, and Community experiences.
Curated Journeys
Enroll in a Journey as a mentor or mentee to get the full package! Our Journeys are curated by a professional team of educators and artists to be a dynamic, multifaceted experiences built with specific mentorship types, community experiences, and curricular courses to meet your interests, needs, schedule, and goals. Explore genres, media, leadership, activism, public policy, college and career readiness, and more.
360 Adventures
Adventures are like majors—collections of Journeys that mentors and mentees can enroll in over time to deeply explore, build broad skills, and meet longer-term goals. Within each Adventure, writers get a 360° understanding of each field—and collectively our Adventures offer a 360° view of writing across all fields and disciplines.
Collaboratory Access
For Mentors, Mentees & Members: Enjoy À La Carte or as Part of a Journey!
Writing
Build skills though courses on a wide range of genres, media, leadership, activism, college, career, and more.
Mentoring
Connect one-to-one across generations and establish supportive relationships that can last a lifetime.
Community
Collaborate, critique, and share with other inspiring minds at one-of-a-kind events and experiences.