This is a space for mentors to meet up and talk about their GWN experience, the highlights and challenges. This studio functions like a support group and a think tank, in which we exchange ideas on engaging our mentee, as well as discussing solutions for issues and sharing resources.
In this community studio, we’ll talk about all things voice: the elusive monster of narrative fiction. We’ll do exercises to figure out how our narrators speak and how to make each character that appears in our stories each have a distinct style, personality, vocal quirks, and -isms.
We'll be exploring various styles of and topics in journalism, including profile writing, personal essays, cultural criticism, and more. Community studio participants will be able to learn different techniques, try out different styles, and discover how there's a wide range of ways to be a journalist or incorporate journalism into your writing life.
Writing That Changes the World shows how the written word can be used in service of real life social issues. In this studio, we will read mentor texts, learn various styles of journalistic writing, consider how other media can be used in advocacy work, and even start our own pieces of advocacy journalism. Bring your creativity, enthusiasm, and energy to the table!
Everything can be a writing prompt: books, newspapers, the conversations you overhear in coffee shops. In our studios, we’ll teach you how to find prompts everywhere, give you a few writing prompts to spark your writing, and give you time to write!
Applying for jobs and internships can be exhausting and dispiriting, but if we work together, it can be a little less painful. In this studio, mentees will share their experiences, tips, challenges, and triumphs, while sharpening their interview skills, polishing their resumes and cover letters, sharing resources, defining success, finding their Ikigai, and having a few laughs. Mentors are welcome to join the December and January Studios to offer tips, support, and share their networks.
Participants will explore best practices in peer support, practice giving constructive feedback, and engage in creative writing prompts that inspire personal expression and growth, building a strong foundation for a successful peer mentoring relationship.
We hope to inspire creative writing and art-making that reflects on the relationship between humans and native plants and encourage participants to turn their creative process into environmental advocacy projects.
In this studio, participants will learn the essentials of establishing a meaningful and responsible social media presence. Designed for beginners, we’ll explore how to create engaging content, build a personal or professional brand, grow a following, and connect with audiences thoughtfully.
This studio is designed to encourage writers to push the limits of creativity through unconventional and explorative means. In this studio we will look at traditional ways in which fiction genres are written and tackle new ways at going about the creative writing process.
In this animated studio, join fellow comics and cartoon enthusiasts to explore writing and visual prompts inspired by visual storytelling genres. Stop by each month with your favorite writing and image-making tools to go on a new sequential adventure to unleash your inner visual storyteller.
Please commit to going to all three sessions!
"No fight, no flight, just write!” Poetry is an art, as well as an expression of individuality that contributes to creativity, resilience and wellness.
In this community studio, participants will learn the basics of public speaking, debate and dialogue. A room for thought-provoking conversations, collaboration and courage. Disclaimer: Participation highly encouraged for this community studio.
Unlock your inner poet with "Spoken Word: Voices Unleashed!" Join us in learning the art of crafting and performing powerful spoken word poetry. Dive into various styles, master essential elements, and create your own captivating pieces.
Within the multifaceted discussion of how to cultivate positive mental health practices, this studio will discuss exploring cultural identity as a means of nurturing oneself. Learn about how writing is used as a means of personal self-care and navigating rich cultural heritage.
This month, we will explore the lyric essay as a genre of creative nonfiction. Attendees will read some examples together and then practice writing their own lyric essays!
Each of us has stories that shape us, that give us language for our experiences, and each of our languages is unique.
This month, we will read various examples of nature/environment/place being described. We will process the works together and have discussion around guided questions.
This community studio will focus on three important facets in screenwriting: story treatments, character building, and formatting. Not only will these studios help teach the craft of screenwriting, but also provide perspective and applications to other storytelling methods.