Join writer and NYU professor Susanna Horng and Penguin Random House employees for a hands-on workshop that will help you craft a compelling personal statement through guided writing, feedback, and expert insight.
This month, peer-mentees will collaborate in Canva to design a vision board or mind map focused on how they want to grow together and as individuals in their pairs this summer.
This month, we aim to help members use poetry as a tool for upliftment in times of uncertainty and doubt. The goal is to show how poetry can be a bearer of light in dark times, while also inspiring members to harness that light through the creation of their own verses!
This month, participants will navigate scene writing through a scoring approach. They will explore writing scenes alongside music to guide the direction of the scene.
This month, we’ll discuss the relationship between sense of place and genre. We’ll explore how to use details of where and when a scene takes place to create a compelling, genre-specific mood.
This Community Studio is designed as a supportive working session for participants to develop their application materials—whether for undergraduate college or MFA program applications. The hour will focus on peer feedback, collaborative writing, and reflection.
In this IV Teach Committee Studio, participants will reflect on their experiences as educators, students, mentees, and mentors; share updates on current teaching initiatives; and identify areas where deeper educational support is needed within the Girls Write Now community.
Though Pride Month may be over, GWN remains committed to supporting and empowering our LGBTQIA+ community members to help us figure out where we’re going.
This month, we’ll identify and validate those awkward moments of mentoring — silence in conversation, ghosting — and talk through how to weather them. We’ll also fortify ourselves with humor and confidence we can draw upon in those moments.
This is a poetry generative writing workshop directed towards writers of all levels!
