Spring 2025: Careers for Creatives: Unexpected Opportunities

Welcome to Careers for Creatives: Unexpected Opportunities! This course is designed to help you chart your career path, land a job, explore unexpected career opportunities, and support your financial literacy as you embark on your career journey.

Mentoring

In addition to this course, you will meet with your pair for at least one hour-long session per month. Feel free to bring course material into your pair sessions if you’d like!

Events

Career Chat events will be held throughout the cycle to provide you with opportunities to meet and network with professionals in a variety of industries. These events are great ways learn about careers, internship and job opportunities, and make connections.

• March 4, 4:45-6 pm ET: Career Chat with HuMed
• April 8, 4:00-5:15 pm ET: Career Chat with Macmillan Publishers
• April 29, 4:45-5:15 pm ET: TV/Film
• May 13, 4:45-6 pm ET: Memoir Writing with Safiya Sinclair

More Career Chats may be added – you’re also welcome to attend other events that would be beneficial to your creative work or career goals.

Questions

If you have questions about this course or the Careers for Creatives: Unexpected Opportunities Journey, you can always Slack or email Sally Familia (sfamilia@girlswritenow.org) or Emily Rigby (erigby@girlswritenow.org).