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    • Community Studios

    Peer-Pair Vision Boarding

    This Community Studio is for Peer-Pair relationships, with a focus on identity and culture. Our goal is to help Peer Mentee’s strengthen their connection using fun writing exercises and games.

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    • Committee Studios

    Creating Through Uncertainty

    In this session, we’ll be using sounds to tune into ourselves and lean into different emotions that we may be experiencing or have experienced in the past. Participants will try out creative sound and audio techniques like audio journaling, song writing, and beat-making.

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    • Community Studios

    Artist’s Playground: The Limitless World of Fiction Creative Writing

    In this workshop we will take a unique route in story-writing by creating various stories one writer at a time. Through a “pass it along” experience, we’ll build on previous Pinterest/imagery techniques to craft stories.

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    • Community Studios

    Cultivating a Sense of Place in Fiction

    In this session, we’ll workshop turning an ordinary setting into one with a vivid, visceral sense of place. We’ll build a setting from scratch and then experiment with which details to include to illuminate character, genre, and theme without bogging down our story.

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    • Community Studios

    College Essays & MFA Portfolios

    This session will focus on creating an outline for an effective college essay. Participants will work on one strong body paragraph that supports the thesis developed last month. For MFA applicants, sequence/order will be introduced for their portfolio as a strategy to strongly reinforce their chosen theme.

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    • Committee Meetings

    IV Edit – Digital

    Whether you’re WordPress savvy or looking to learn more about online editorial systems, this group offers opportunities to dive into editorial tasks, outreach, and the publication of Girls Write Now Stories.

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    • Community Studios

    Mentor Support & Share

    End of Cycle Wrap-Up: What impact did your mentor pairing have on you as a writer/artist/person? In this final session of the cycle, we will reflect on where we started, and where we landed through our summer mentorship cycle. What are we taking with us? What are we leaving behind?

  • Open Mic: A Creative Showcase

    Join us for an evening of creativity, expression, and community! This Open Mic is a space to connect with other artists and creators through poetry, song, and overall storytelling.

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    • Community Studios

    Poetry as Nourishment: Writing Food and Eating Poems

    In this session, we’ll explore food as a means of socio-economic commentary and a marker of status. We’ll begin with a brief prayer and writing prompt, and read poems by José Olivarez and Pablo Neruda. We’ll close with a fun writing exercise and sharing circle!

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    • Community Studios

    Reflecting: The Art of Writing Creative Nonfiction Essays

    In this session, we’ll learn what a hermit crab essay in creative nonfiction is and try writing one. We’ll think about how everyday forms like college essays and postcards can become a conduit for our creativity for writing personal essays.