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Fall 2024 Journey Orientation Dates

Open to all mentees and all mentors

Attention Mentees and Mentors!

We will inform you of the Journey you have been enrolled in during early October. At that time, you’ll also be introduced to your Journey Staff Lead and receive your orientation registration link. If you’re unable to attend the orientation session, please notify your Journey Staff Lead as soon as possible.

We look forward to embarking on these journeys together!

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Special Events

Open Mic: A Creative Showcase

Open to all mentees, all mentors, program alum and the public

Join us at the Girls Write Now Office for our Open Mic Series! Performers are invited to share their work (poems, songs, stories, and more!) on the mic for an audience as we gather to celebrate creativity and build community.

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Salon Series

From Honey to Knife: Writing Love Letters to Your Emo Feels

Open to all mentees, all mentors, program alum and the public

Join Girls Write Now and Hannah Olabosibe Eko for an intimate exploration of the power of words with Honey Is the Knife and The Emo Love Letter. During the Friday Night Salon experience, we will dive into the art of writing love letters to or from our emotions---embracing the full spectrum of our inner experience. Salon guests will learn surprising histories of our emotions, meet their feelings where they are, and use the love letter as a tool to navigate pain, pleasure, and everything in between.

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Special Events

Open Mic: A Creative Showcase

Open to all mentees, all mentors, program alum and the public

Join us at the Girls Write Now Headquarters for our Open Mic Series! Performers are invited to share their work (poems, songs, stories, and more!) on the mic for an audience as we gather to celebrate creativity and build community.

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Special Events

Self-Care to Community-Care: WE Got US!

Open to woman-identifying and trans* and gender-expansive members of the public

Please join us on Monday, November 11, 2024 for our Youth Be Heard Town Hall discussion. Our theme is 'Self-Care to Community-Care: WE Got US!', and we will be facilitating a dialogue with a local NYC Council Member, as well as other young people. This event promises to be a powerful and insightful dialogue between young people and those in power, about working together to foster an environment where community-care is a shared responsibility.

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Community Studios

Mentor Support Group/Think Tank

Open to all mentors

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.

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Community Studios

Finding Your Voice: Creating Memorable POVs in Fiction

Open to all mentees, all mentors and members

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.

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Committee Meetings

Committee on Print Editorial: Talk To a Publishing Pro

Open to all mentees, all mentors, print anthology committee members and program alum

In this Intersectional Voices in Editorial - Print Studio (IV Edit - Print), we will explore the publishing process from all angles, including editing, promotion, and bringing more voices to the page. This studio also provides insight into the making of Girls Write Now’s annual anthology, and in the spring cycle, members of the Print Anthology Committee will work on editing the book

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