• Community Studios

    Peer Pair Support Studio

    Participants will explore best practices in peer support, practice giving constructive feedback, and engage in creative writing prompts that inspire personal expression and growth, building a strong foundation for a successful peer mentoring relationship.

    • Community Studios

    Rooted in Nature: Turning Creativity Into Environmental Advocacy

    We hope to inspire creative writing and art-making that reflects on the relationship between humans and native plants and encourage participants to turn their creative process into environmental advocacy projects.

    • Career Chats

    Entertainment Career Chat

    This Chat will explore the essential attributes and pathways to creative fields in the entertainment industry. Here is your chance to ask all of your burning questions with a panel that includes Dramatists Guild Director of Education and Outreach Tari Stratton, Talent Agent Victoria Kress, The Bear Casting Director Jeanie Bacharach, and Northwestern Theatre and Drama PhD student Chloë Jackson.

    • Community Studios

    Building Your Social Media Presence: A Responsible Guide for Beginners

    In this studio, participants will learn the essentials of establishing a meaningful and responsible social media presence. Designed for beginners, we’ll explore how to create engaging content, build a personal or professional brand, grow a following, and connect with audiences thoughtfully.

    • Community Studios

    Writing Past the Page: Pushing the Limits of Creativity

    This studio is designed to encourage writers to push the limits of creativity through unconventional and explorative means. In this studio we will look at traditional ways in which fiction genres are written and tackle new ways at going about the creative writing process.

    • Committee Studios

    Intersectional Voices in Editorial Digital Committee Studio

    Learn all about the editorial process at Girls Write Now by joining the Intersectional Voices in Editorial Committee (IV Edit)

    IV Edit: Digital focuses on digital and multimedia formats at GWN, including online publications, podcasts, videos, and interactive media.

    • Community Studios

    Visual Storytelling: Comic/Cartoons

    In this animated studio, join fellow comics and cartoon enthusiasts to explore writing and visual prompts inspired by visual storytelling genres. Stop by each month with your favorite writing and image-making tools to go on a new sequential adventure to unleash your inner visual storyteller.

    • Community Studios

    Soul Tracks: Questing for Resilience (Expressive Arts Group)

    Please commit to going to all three sessions!

    “No fight, no flight, just write!” Poetry is an art, as well as an expression of individuality that contributes to creativity, resilience and wellness.

    • Community Studios

    Speak Up: Developing Effective Communication Skills for Life

    In this community studio, participants will learn the basics of public speaking, debate and dialogue. A room for thought-provoking conversations, collaboration and courage. Disclaimer: Participation highly encouraged for this community studio.

    • Community Conversations

    Community Conversation: Post-Election Art, Activism, and Healing

    Join us for an open and compassionate Community Conversation all about going back to campus during an election year. We’ll connect with one another through a discussion about writing as a form of resistance and the ways we can uplift one another to create spaces of hope and joy in classrooms and on campus.