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The World of Prompts
The World of Prompts
This month, we'll be using history, newspapers and archival material to generate writing prompts!
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Career Readiness: Tips, Tricks & Triumphs
Career Readiness: Tips, Tricks & Triumphs
In this final fall studio, we'll pair accountability partners, practice interview skills, and hear from a mentee on building her network and learning from interviews. Everyone will share their progress. No prior attendance needed, and mentors are welcome.
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Peer Pair Support Studio
Peer Pair Support Studio
This month, each participant writes a letter of encouragement to their peer, reflecting on strengths, growth, and their shared journey. This helps foster appreciation and connection, reinforcing their partnership.
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Rooted in Nature: Turning Creativity into Environmental Advocacy
Rooted in Nature: Turning Creativity into Environmental Advocacy
In this studio, we 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.
This month, we'll discuss the various ways we can spread awareness to the public about contributing to a healthier environment. Additionally, we will be exploring writing and art and how we can use them as tools to advocate for a healthier world.
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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 — the pluses and minuses. 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.
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Finding Your Voice: Creating Memorable POV in Fiction
Finding Your Voice: Creating Memorable POV in Fiction
This month, we'll discuss editing for voice, including what "close POV" means and how to achieve it in 1st and 3rd person. We’ll also do editing exercises to explore ways to make our narrators' voices more specific.
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Committee on Print Editorial
Committee on Print Editorial
Join us for the kick-off Anthology Committee meeting as we gather to talk about Girls Write Now’s 2025 Anthology and share our hopes and dreams. Who should write the Foreword and who should provide a blurb? What goes into making this meaningful book? You’ll learn about the publishing process and meet the mentors and mentees who will be editing the anthology.
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Soul Tracks: Questing for Resilience (Expressive Arts Group)
Soul Tracks: Questing for Resilience (Expressive Arts Group)
This month, we’ll use photographic imagery of trees and symbolism to explore self-image. A poem by Donald Adamson, “Damaged,” will guide us in reflecting on our worldview and our stance of acceptance or non-acceptance in our life journeys.
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Writing That Changes the World
Writing That Changes the World
This month, we’ll briefly touch upon these barriers to entry, and discuss the other avenues that exist for using our writing to effect change, from educational flyers to social media posts and more.
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Writing Past the Page: Pushing the Limits of Creativity
Writing Past the Page: Pushing the Limits of Creativity
This final studio will unite film with fiction novel writing and how we can use this as a means to explore character creation and development. We will engage in crafting original characters and putting these characters in situations and scenes from movies and incorporate these into an immersive writing exercise.
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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.
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Visual Storytelling: Comic/Cartoons
Visual Storytelling: Comic/Cartoons
From Solo Acts to Squad Goals: In the world of visual storytelling characters often team up to go on adventures or missions. Join our party to explore the group dynamics of characters on epic journeys through examples and prompts.
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Speak Up: Developing Effective Communication Skills for Life
Speak Up: Developing Effective Communication Skills for Life
Recapping on session one and two learnings of “claim warrant impact” and “blowing up the balloon” while adding the art of rebuttal and contrasting arguments via weighing the validity of contrasting arguments.
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Journalism: Styles, Stories, and Techniques
Journalism: Styles, Stories, and Techniques
This month, we'll be teaching studio participants tips and techniques of interviewing people for news stories, and then they'll have the chance to interview another studio participant.
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Spoken Word: Voices Unleashed
Spoken Word: Voices Unleashed
This month, participants will listen to two spoken-word poems: both embody intense emotions that use poetry as a way of processing. They will spot similarities and differences, engage in a creative conversation, and ultimately craft their own.
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Joy, Resistance, and Change: Healing through Cultural Storytelling
Joy, Resistance, and Change: Healing through Cultural Storytelling
In “Change”, the third and last 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 explore strategies for writing about other people in creative nonfiction by viewing and discussing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Danger of a Single Story” and Philip Lopate’s “Ethics of Writing About Other People.” Then you’ll get a chance to practice through a writing prompt.
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Memoir: Stories that Shape Us
Memoir: Stories that Shape Us
In this studio you will explore your language and develop a greater familiarity and facility with it. We will read texts that will inspire discussions and free writes.
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Three Elements of Storytelling through Screenwriting
Three Elements of Storytelling through Screenwriting
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.