This opening session is about learning to lead, and trust, yourself first. We’ll draft a personal leadership philosophy, and share the real tools we use to stay organized and reliable.
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IV Edit Digital focuses on digital and multimedia formats at Girls Write Now, including online publications, podcasts, videos, and interactive media. Are you interested in supporting with digital story publications? Whether you’re WordPress savvy, a skilled graphic designer, or looking to support the Girls Write Now team publish hundreds of mentees original works, we invite you to join us as we dive into editorial tasks, outreach, and the publication of Girls Write Now Stories.
Join us for this workshop series as we talk through how our government is designed, how it functions at its best, ad why it has always been considered an experiment. You’ll leave with an understanding of how you can make an impact in your community and beyond, whether it’s running for office, helping candidates understand your perspective and recommendations, or launching a campaign to use storytelling to change the hearts and minds of others.
In this lesson, participants will learn what defines an Op-Ed from other forms of argumentative writing, and begin constructing one of their own.
In this Salon, Wen-yi Lee, author of urban historical fantasy, When They Burned the Butterfly, will guide you in finding magic and mythology in the city and the streets around you. How do we connect with the fantastical in our everyday lives? How do cities transform when we think of them as living characters? And how do we imagine different versions of the world around us?
In this session, participants will learn the difference between a scholarship and fellowship and become introduced to databases and resources to find opportunities. Using the community studio lead’s Laidlaw Scholarship as a case study, participants will begin freewritng a vision of their long-term goals.
Join us for a crash course in the creative potential of linguistics. What are Conlangs? How does an appreciation for indigenous language and Old languages open the doors for our own creative practice? All levels of background knowledge in linguistics, indigenous languages, and world building welcome!
Our objective during this studio is to give an insight about how playwriting can be used to introduce theater life. Following this, participants will experiment with playwriting and discuss how theatre is used during times of difficulties.
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