At our first Editorial Forum of the program year, we’ll discuss the themes and ideas that Girls Write Now has been writing about for the past 25 years and look to the future to think about the ideas we want to represent with our work moving forward.
In this Editorial Forum, we’ll discuss how we can create a safe space for creativity at Girls Write Now and what we think it will look like to be a writer on the internet in the future.
In this Editorial Forum, we’ll discuss the ways we think about holidays and celebrations from a storytelling perspective. Join us for a meaningful discussion about joy, remembrance, and the power of stories.
What are the words that you use to describe yourself? What words do others use to describe you? Join us for an interactive conversation about the ways we create community and celebrate nuance as storytellers.
Whether someone finds our work online or in the pages of a book, frequently the first interaction they have with it is through visual representation. Join us for a discussion about the ways we can use color and design to represent our work. We’ll talk about the implicit bias in color theory, dream of visual representations for our own work, and collaborate on images to represent work created by the Girls Write Now community.
We need stories to heal, to express our truths, and to enact change – but how does the need for activism in our stories impact our creativity? Gen Z writers have been told that their words are going to save the rest of us, and many of them are rising to that challenge, but they’re also feeling the pressure. Let’s talk about it!
In this Intersectional Voices in Editorial – Print Studio (IV Edit – 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 in the spring cycle, members of the Print Anthology Committee will work on editing the book
Get excited for our first meeting this cycle where we’ll go Beyond the Binary, Again to see Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging far beyond the narrow confines.
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
In this Intersectional Voices in Print Studio (IV Print), we will explore the publishing process from all angles, including editing,
