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Mentor Professional Development

LGBTQIA2S+ Communities and Identities: A Conversation about Inclusion and Equity

Online | Open to all mentors

In this session, we will discuss suggested practices to increase inclusion and equity specifically regarding LGBTQIA2S+ individuals via understanding relative language, concepts, common barriers, and sharing resources. We will explore LGBTQIA2S+ language and concepts such as biological/sex assigned at birth, gender identity, expression, and pronouns. We will look at introductory understandings of bias and learn about unique considerations for working with marginalized populations such as gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic minorities. Participants will have the opportunity to practice utilizing neutral pronouns, correcting missteps, addressing inaccuracies, and more.

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Publishing 360 Workshops

Revolutionary Storytelling: Creating Our Zine

Online | Open to publishing 360 mentees and publishing 360 mentors

In February's P360 workshop, we'll learn about the history of zines as a revolutionary form of publishing, hear from some prominent zine editors, and then get brainstorming on our zine's title and theme! (Note: we will decide the title and theme of the zine during this workshop!)

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Salon Series

Celebrating Black History, Present and Future Through Storytelling with Janis Kearney

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

Join us for an evening of discovery as we celebrate Janis Kearney's new book Only on Sundays: Mahalia Jackson's Long Journey. We'll hear about the care and curiosity needed to write historical nonfiction from a creative lens and practice finding the spectacular figures in our own lives with writing prompts.

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Writing Works Workshops

Confidence to Dream: Defining Your Personal Narrative for Success

Online | Open to all mentees, all mentors and program alum

In this workshop, participants will be guided through a series of creative writing exercises designed to help them assess how they show up in the world as different versions of themselves—aka, their various characters—and focus on developing themselves as one who has the confidence to dream big!

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College & Career Chats

College & Career Chat

Online | Open to all mentees and program alum

In Career Chats, mentees gain exposure to various industries by networking with employees—Girls Write Now “mentors for the day”—across publishing, media, beauty, finance, and more. Professionals share their journeys, advice for breaking into their industry, and how they are charting a course for a successful career. Learn about positions you never knew existed, and get support applying to a curated selection of open jobs and internships within companies like NBC, Scholastic, Royal Bank of Canada, Estee Lauder, Dotdash Meredith, EHE Health, BBDO Advertising and more.

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Editorial Forums

Covers & Colors

Online | Open to all mentees, all mentors, diversity committee members and program alum

Whether someone finds our work online or in the pages of a book, frequently the first interaction they have with it is through visual representation. Join us for a discussion about the ways we can use color and design to represent our work. We’ll talk about the implicit bias in color theory, dream of visual representations for our own work, and collaborate on images to represent work created by the Girls Write Now community.

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Salon Series

Navigating the Joy of First Love with Melissa See

Online | Open to the public

Join YA author Melissa See as she discusses how to write first love in all its complexities. Through having a conversation about her upcoming novel, Love Letters for Joy, Melissa will also explore queer identity, disability, and the intersectionality of the two.

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Writing 360 Workshops

Tell it Through Jokes: The Joys and Benefits of Stand-Up Comedy

Online | Open to all mentees, all mentors, program alum, woman-identifying and trans* and gender-expansive members of the public

In this workshop, we will learn the basics of stand-up comedy writing, giving special attention to the ways stand-up can be a tool for activism and awareness around pertinent social issues. Participants will gain an understanding of thoughtful comedy writing, what not to do in stand-up, and how to intentionally engage audience members and will have the opportunity to write jokes either for themselves or for Teaching Artist and stand up comedian Annabel Young. Don't miss this opportunity to learn that stand-up is a medium for everyone—a medium with multiple benefits and applications that has the power to change the world...one joke at a time.

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Writing 360 Workshops

Co-creating Future: Augmented Reality As Crystal Ball

Open to all mentees, all mentors, program alum, woman-identifying and trans* and gender-expansive members of the public

In this workshop, inspired by the I Ching, an ancient text of Chinese wisdom and the world's oldest oracle, artist and educator Zhenzhen Qi takes us through a variety of cultural divination practices to collectively design new or alternative patterns for fortune-telling. As a group, using the software development environment Lens Studio, we will code these patterns into a Snapchat AR filter to develop our own fortune-telling software experience. No prior software design or development experience is needed!

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STARS

STARS Citywide Girls Initiative Leadership Breakfast: Ushering In an Era of Empathetic Leadership

Open to board members and diversity committee members

Join girls and gender-expansive youth from the 10 organizations that comprise STARS for a breakfast panel to discuss the importance of wellness in ushering in a new generation of leaders. This STARS Citywide Girls Initiative Leadership Breakfast will feature a panel discussion with Council Member Linda Lee, President of United Way Grace Bonilla, writer and activist Natalie Henry, NYC Deputy Mayor Jasmine Ray, and Nike Director Jeanette Rodriguez.

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