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.
Salons
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 Chats
College Chats offer engaging discussions with experts on college preparation and the collegiate experience. These sessions connect mentors, mentees, and members with college representatives, financial aid professionals, current students and graduates who provide first-hand insights into the admissions process and experience of attending college at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Career Chats
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.
Journey Meetings
Journey Meetings 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 emphasize the Journey’s learning experience, encouraging participants to exchange feedback, refine their skills, and work together on shared goals. Through these meetings, Journey participants deepen their understanding, build strong connections, and progress collaboratively toward their creative and educational objectives.
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.
Upcoming Events
Events
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- Community Studios
Healing Through Storytelling: Playwriting & The Experimental
In this studio, we will explore our deepest curiosities and how we can transform those into the dramatic questions that creates conflict in a story. We will also take a look at the relationship our characters’ emotions, wants, and needs has to the conflict and drama of our story.
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- Career Chats
Eggi × Girls Write Now Present: A Design Career Chat & Charrette
In partnership with Eggi Magazine, we invite you to join us at the nexus of language and art for an intergenerational conversation about design—and a hands-on reimagining of the Girls Write Now Collaboratory.
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- Community Studios
Off the Beaten Path: Unconventional and Hybrid Forms of Writing
This studio explores various types of flash writing. We will learn about lists, drabbles, and postcard writing and get some hands-on experience writing our own!
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- Collaboratory Workshops
College Ready: Polishing Your Personal Statement with Macmillan
Bring your personal statement (650 words max) to be workshopped and revised alongside Macmillan employees, who will serve as our Mentors of the Day.
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- Community Studios
Change Makers, Initiative Takers: How to Harmonize
A marching band only works when every section commits to the same downbeat. In our final session, we move from leading ourselves to leading in community (building cultures of shared credit, honest accountability, and mutual care) and each write a Community Leadership Credo that carries our values, our rewritten narratives, and our commitments beyond this studio.