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The World of Prompts
The World of Prompts
This month, we’ll discuss how to find inspiration and writing prompts in media of all kinds — books, movies, plays, shows, etc! And then we’ll create a few prompts together for good measure.
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Career Readiness: Tips, Tricks & Triumphs
Career Readiness: Tips, Tricks & Triumphs
Looking for jobs or internships? No need to go it alone. Join us this month to share tips on networking, job hunting, professional communication, and accountability. Mentors are invited to share their wisdom and professional journeys to support mentees.
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Committee on Print Editorial: Behind the Publishing Curtain
Committee on Print Editorial: Behind the Publishing Curtain
This month, we’re excited to pull back the curtain on the publishing world: how books are published and how YOU can get published, including the 2025 Anthology. We’ll introduce the Anthology and its editing committee — maybe you'd like to join? HarperOne Associate Editor Daphney Guillaume will share her publishing experience, and other committee members will be available to answer your questions.
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Rooted in Nature: Turning Creativity into Environmental Advocacy
Rooted in Nature: Turning Creativity into Environmental Advocacy
Explore 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.
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Mentor Support Group/Think Tank
Mentor Support Group/Think Tank
The Mentor Support Group/Think Tank is a space for mentors to meet up and talk about their GWN experience.
2 events,
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Finding Your Voice: Creating Memorable POV in Fiction
Finding Your Voice: Creating Memorable POV in Fiction
This month, we are going to talk about the relationship between voice and character. We’ll get to know our main characters and talk about the ways their personality traits, background, identity markers, and more influence the ways our characters think and speak, whether our narration is 1st person, close 3rd, or even 3rd omniscient.
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Soul Tracks: Questing for Resilience (Expressive Arts Group)
Soul Tracks: Questing for Resilience (Expressive Arts Group)
What does it mean to be “broken”? And how do we reconfigure the pieces of your puzzling life to feel more complete? In this workshop, we metaphorically explore, through literature and writing, how the cracks of the mended kintsugi cup has its own beauty.
2 events,
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Writing That Changes the World
Writing That Changes the World
Does objectivity in journalism exist? Is it okay for journalists to take a strong stance? In this session, we’ll explore writings on the topic, discuss cases where journalists were barred from personal issues, and examine barriers to advocacy journalism.
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Writing Past the Page: Pushing the Limits of Creativity
Writing Past the Page: Pushing the Limits of Creativity
How thin is the line between dreams and reality? This month, we’ll explore surrealism in fiction and other creative forms. We'll also discover how to use dreams and imagination to craft compelling stories that defy reason and embrace the bizarre.
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Memoir: Stories that Shape Us
Memoir: Stories that Shape Us
This month we will explore descriptive language, reading various examples of how color is described. Using guiding questions, we will process and discuss these works together.
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Building Your Social Media Presence: A Responsible Guide for Beginners
Building Your Social Media Presence: A Responsible Guide for Beginners
This month, participants will have a short tutorial on how to create a LinkedIn account and learn how to create a post that can best express their accomplishments.
2 events,
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Visual Storytelling: Comic/Cartoons
Visual Storytelling: Comic/Cartoons
This month, we will take a look at some examples of mythologies that exist through comics and animation, and develop our own mythologies!
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Speak Up: Developing Effective Communication Skills for Life
Speak Up: Developing Effective Communication Skills for Life
In this session, we’ll build on what we learned in session one, explore the psychological and social impacts of debate (aka “blowing up the balloon”), and learn how to accept, think critically, and refute claims tactfully.
2 events,
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Journalism: Styles, Stories, and Techniques
Journalism: Styles, Stories, and Techniques
This month, we'll be teaching studio participants the components of a compelling movie or TV review, and then they'll have the chance to start crafting a review of a recent movie they’ve watched.
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Spoken Word: Voices Unleashed
Spoken Word: Voices Unleashed
This month, unlock the power of your voice and transform your anger into art in our spoken word poetry studio. Join us to explore the depths of feminine range and learn to craft your own compelling verses!
2 events,
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Joy, Resistance, and Change: Healing through Cultural Storytelling
Joy, Resistance, and Change: Healing through Cultural Storytelling
In “Resistance”, the second part of the series, “Joy, Resistance, and Change”, we read work that explores cultural storytelling that differs from the dominant narrative about one’s culture, and then have practice writing our own.
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Discovering Oneself: Creative Nonfiction Writing
Discovering Oneself: Creative Nonfiction Writing
This month, we'll learn about writing memoir and consider how memoir is a way to learn about ourselves. Attendees will be able to practice their memoir writing skills through personal exploration.