Core Live Events
Core Live Events at GWN are designed to foster community engagement, learning, and growth. These gatherings provide a dynamic platform for mentees, mentors, and members to build meaningful relationships, expand their creativity and knowledge, and advance their personal and professional goals. By offering diverse opportunities for collaboration, skill development, and inspiration, Core Live Events play a crucial role in enriching the GWN community and supporting the ongoing development of its participants.
Friday Night Salon
Friday Night Salons at GWN are engaging virtual live events where a special guest author hosts an intimate session with mentees, mentors, and guest attendees. The author shares their personal and professional journey, offering insights and inspiration. Throughout the evening, the author guides participants through a series of writing prompts, fostering creativity and reflection. These salons provide a unique opportunity for close-up interaction with the author, allowing participants to connect directly with a literary professional in a supportive and inspiring environment. Friday Night salons are open to the public.
College & Career Chats
College and Career Chats are essential virtual live events at GWN that connect youth with industry professionals and partners. These sessions offer valuable insights into various career paths and fields of study, providing participants with direct access to expert advice and guidance. Through these interactions, youth can explore potential career opportunities, gain exposure to different industries, and begin building their professional networks, laying the foundation for future success. These events also foster meaningful connections and provide inspiration for achieving career goals.
Genre/Media Workshops
Genre/Media Workshops at GWN are dynamic live events where participants delve into the creative process across various genres and media. Led by teaching artists who share their professional journeys, these workshops offer craft lessons that inspire and guide participants in exploring multi-genre and multimedia work. Participants create and share work and engage in meaningful exchanges of perspectives, honing their professional skills in a supportive environment. These workshops foster collaboration and creativity, empowering participants to grow as both artists and professionals.
Community Conversations Mentor
Community Conversations at GWN are part of the core live events designed to promote physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being among participants. These events focus on specific organizational or global themes, aiming to enhance overall wellness and foster a supportive community environment. They also provide a platform for tackling difficult and challenging topics, encouraging open dialogue and shared learning. By addressing relevant issues related to well-being, Community Conversations support and uplift the GWN community, fostering a deeper understanding and resilience.
Journey Meetings & Workshops
Journey Meetings and Workshops at GWN are integral live events designed for participants of specific Journeys. These sessions provide a focused environment where mentees and mentors come together to collaborate on Journey-related content and projects. The meetings and workshops emphasize the journey’s learning experience, encouraging participants to exchange feedback, refine their skills, and work together on shared goals. Through these meetings and workshops, journey participants deepen their understanding, build strong connections, and progress collaboratively toward their creative and educational objectives.
Mentor Professional Development
Mentor Professional Development Sessions at GWN are vital live events focused on equipping mentors with a comprehensive set of skills and knowledge. Beyond mentoring best practices, these sessions delve into DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) aspects, enhancing mentors’ ability to foster inclusive and supportive environments. Mentors also develop key communication skills, including conflict resolution, time management, and techniques for reducing stress. Additionally, these sessions provide opportunities for mentors to connect and exchange insights with their peers, strengthening the overall mentoring community.
Register for Core Live Events
To register for Core Live Events visit girlswritenow.org/events
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More Community Engagement Events
We Have The Tools: A Forum on Youth Impact
The Athena Film Festival invites you to a lively forum where high school and college students will share the strategies and tactics that they are using to tell important stories, build community, and pursue justice.
Mentor Support Group/Think Tank
This community studio is an open forum for mentors to discuss, ask, share and express all thoughts about mentoring, having a mentee, writing, dealing, etc.
Advocacy Journalism: Ethics & Best Practices
This workshop with NBC BLK’s Michelle Garcia will cover Journalistic Ethics and Best Practices to lay the foundation for aspiring journalists, advocates and community leaders. Hear from Michelle on how she got started as a journalist, what makes for a good story, and the importance of representation in the news.
Career Readiness: Tips, Tricks & Triumphs
Does the idea of a job interview make you want to crawl into a ball? Don't worry! We've all been there, and together, we can make the job process less terrifying and more gratifying! This month, we'll practice interview skills together.
Writing Nonfiction That Reads Like Fiction
You don't have to invent a plot to write a page turner. In this studio, we'll draw on elements of fiction to craft compelling nonfiction—from memoirs to op-eds and beyond!
Take Back the Pen: Deconstructing Harmful Narratives
Each session of this Studio will involve looking at pioneering African female & non binary writers and how they rewrote the histories & narratives of their identities. Following this exploration, attendees will be given the space to reflect on the ways their identities have been written or told & rewrite these narratives.
IV Edit – Print
In this Intersectional Voices in Print Studio (IV Print), we will explore the publishing process from all angles, including editing, promotion, and bringing more voices to the page. This studio also provides insight into the making of Girls Write Now’s annual anthology, and members of the IV Print Committee will work on editing the book.
Peer Pair Support Studio
A supportive space where peer pairs come together to share experiences and participate in guided exercises focused on effective communication, creative project development, and storytelling.
Harness the Unbound: Taking Control of a Limitless Story
This studio is centered around the idea of a book that has never been bound and exploring the endless possibilities there are as we add to this story. Through this studio we will participate and analyze different activities and notions pertaining to fiction writing and how we can expand on these ideas and learn to gain mastery over our unique crafts.
iFeminism
iFeminism is a series of topics ranging from media, advocacy, and feminism. This month, we will analyze period poverty within the media. We will go through an activity using creative writing and/or graphic design (via Canva’s free resources) to describe how we have been impacted individually and as a community.