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Salon Series

Flying Solo: Daring Feats with Gigi Coleman

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

You’ve heard of the Wright Brothers. You’ve heard of Amelia Earhart. But what do you know about the first female African-American pilot, Bessie Coleman? Inspired by her Great-Aunt Bessie’s legacy, Gigi Coleman created an organization called The Bessie Coleman Aviation All-Stars and one-woman show to share Bessie’s too often ignored history with the world. Join us in partnership with Barbie for a celebration of resilience as Gigi Coleman honors her great-aunt and shares her remarkable story.

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Writing 360 Workshops

Making It Personal: Finding Your Voice In Documentary Screenwriting

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

Have you ever wondered what a script looks like for a documentary? In this workshop Writer and Director Lagueria Davis will teach about different types of documentaries and share the process of screenwriting for participatory documentaries. You'll hear about the sweet victories and the frustrating challenges, the truth and the myths, as well as the ins and outs of framing a documentary film. Join us to learn how to honor your unique voice and experience, while gaining the skills and insight to write personal voice over. It's all about your unique point of view and the choices you make in telling your story.

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Writing 360 Workshops

Sharing Our Collective Story: Video for Performance & Digital Storytelling

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

Want to learn how video can be used for storytelling and self-expression? Join us for this cutting-edge workshop in which multimedia artist Lani Asunción will share aspects of their interdisciplinary performative practice. Participants will explore conceptualizing performance for video through capturing movement, sound, and artistic rituals. Lani will discuss fundamental elements of video production and teach us video editing on a non-linear timeline using the video editing app VITA. Participants will create their own video and collectively we will share our narratives in the form of performative storytelling.

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College & Career Chats

Kickoff College & Career Chat

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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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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