Girls Write Now Collaboratory
The Collaboratory is our central home for connecting and creating as a community. The doors are now open for Mentors, Mentees, and Members from all walks of life and across the country to join us this fall. Welcome!
Home for a Multi-Generational Community to Connect & Create
For nearly three decades, Girls Write Now has broken through polarizing forces to mentor and teach writers across age, gender, race, class, region, and discipline. Throughout all of our work, we are committed to amplifying systemically under-represented voices—particularly those historically disempowered due to their gender and gender identity—that have the power to shape culture, impact industries, and bridge worlds.
The Collaboratory Model
In the Collaboratory, we take a 360 degree approach to developing the whole writer: academically at the intersection of arts and social justice; professionally across all industries; and personally in a healing-centered space. All Collaboratory experiences combine writing, mentoring, and community in different combinations. Select and customize one that is just right for your personal and professional interests, schedule, goals, and passions across a broad range genres, media, and topics, including college, career, and leadership development.
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Become a Mentor
Girls Write Now mentors are cis women, transgender men and women, non-binary, and other gender expansive adults from around the nation who work together, building writing and leadership skills while supporting one another’s goals.
Become a Mentee
Mentees at Girls Write Now are writers and leaders between ages 14-24 who identify as girls or gender expansive youth from around the nation. Through a lens of creativity and activism, mentees produce stories, podcasts, poems, films, and more with the support of a mentor and the Girls Write Now community.
Become a Member
If you're not ready to become a mentee or mentor, you can create a Girls Write Now account to become a Girls Write Now Member and access resources, events, and opportunities – no commitment necessary!
Explore Curated Journeys
Enroll in a Journey as a mentor or mentee to get the full package! Our Journeys are curated by a professional team of educators and artists to be a dynamic, multifaceted experience built with specific mentorship types, community experiences, and curricular courses to meet your interests, needs, schedule, and goals. Explore genres, media, leadership, activism, public policy, college and career readiness, and beyond.
Build Towards 360 Adventures
Adventures are like majors— collections of Journeys that mentors and mentees can enroll in over time to deeply explore, build broad skills, and meet longer-term goals. Within each Adventure, writers get a 360 degree understanding of each field—and collectively our Adventures offer a 360 degree view of writing across all fields and disciplines.
Writing
Build skills though courses that focus on any genre, media, leadership, activism, college, career, and more.
Mentoring
Connect one-to-one across generations and establish a supportive relationship that lasts a lifetime.
Community
Collaborate and share with other inspiring minds at countless engaging events and experiences.