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.
This Chat will explore the essential attributes and pathways to creative fields in the entertainment industry. Here is your chance to ask all of your burning questions with a panel that includes Dramatists Guild Director of Education and Outreach Tari Stratton, Talent Agent Victoria Kress, The Bear Casting Director Jeanie Bacharach, and Northwestern Theatre and Drama PhD student Chloë Jackson.
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.
Learn all about the editorial process at Girls Write Now by joining the Intersectional Voices in Editorial Committee (IV Edit)
IV Edit: Digital focuses on digital and multimedia formats at GWN, including online publications, podcasts, videos, and interactive media.
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.
