Write the Change You Want to See

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To understand Girls Write Now, zoom out and watch a complex, multi-dimensional organism, constantly and consciously in the making—a community reaching across gender, race, class, and age; a body of work that bends between genres, media, and disciplines; a nonprofit, but also an incubator of art, a developer of professions, a force that heals. Rooted in New York City with an ecosystem branching statewide, around the nation, and the globe. For Girls Write Now, metamorphosis is a state of being. Come in close, though, and you realize it all starts with something small. They call it the butterfly effect—a single word, one act of kindness, in the right conditions, travels further than anyone can predict. A word evolves into a story, a byline, a career, a life a family didn’t think was available to them—a community transformed. Your gift today is the catalyst for change on all levels.

Your contribution fuels the Girls Write Now Collaboratory—our central home where multi-generational writers connect, create, and build community. Through a 360° approach that combines writing courses, mentorship, and community experiences, the Collaboratory helps young writers develop their craft academically at the intersection of arts and social justice, professionally across industries, and personally in a healing-centered space. Your gift sustains the people, programs, and platforms that turn a private draft into a finished piece, and a young writer into a confident, published voice.

How We Transform in Community

“My mentee Irene has taught me to look at life from a more beautiful angle. We recently worked on a narrative essay together where she compared her life to a game of Omok. I had never heard of Omok, and I got to learn all about it from her and her writing. She opens me up to new ideas and comparisons I wouldn’t have thought of on my own. I thought her essay was a beautiful metaphor, and I want to think about life the way she does.”
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Alexis Grusby, Screenwriter Mentor
“Alexis has helped me become more reflective and insightful not only in writing but in the way I go about life. During our writing process of my narrative story about the Korean board game Omok, especially in our brainstorming stages, Alexis guided me in directions that I had not taken before, asking me questions that required me to sit down and reflect on what I truly thought. It’s made me embrace as a writer and a student a more vulnerable side of myself that I do not often explore!”
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Irene Cho Mentee
“Girls Write Now is a testament to the impact of investing in people like me, and a space where I can channel both my professional and creative interests.”
Kathryn Destin
Kathryn Destin Current or Former Staff/Intern and Mentee Alum
“My mentor, a talented journalist and podcast producer, helped me recognize the power of sharing my story and the importance of having a safe space to tell it.”
FikirteHunt + StephanizeKariuki
Fiki Hunt Mentee Alum
“The community we create together reminds us that we are all human and that our world is worth preserving.”
AJ Lamas-Nemec
Alejandre Lamas-Nemec Mentee