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.
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.
Please join us for the next Committee Meeting of Intersectional Voices in Diversity Equity & Inclusion (IV DEIB) where we'll be discussing Girls Write Now's values, and applying them to our primary platform for communications, Slack, to begin creating together new Slack Community Guidelines
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.
Join us for this engaging and informative mentor professional development session dedicated to fostering empathy, promoting inclusivity, and equipping participants with practical skills to support transgender youth. Don't miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and contribute to a more inclusive future.
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.
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.
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.
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.
