Girls Write Now Community Experiences
Expressive Arts
At Girls Write Now, our expressive art groups provide therapeutic support through creative practices. Guided by mental health professionals, these groups offer a space for participants to process challenging personal events, shift perspectives, and address stress and anxiety through artistic expression. The focus is on using creative tools to explore and reframe personal narratives, promoting emotional well-being and personal growth.
Therapeutic Writing Group
In this wellness group, a mental health professional introduces participants to therapeutic writing as a tool to process challenging personal events and feelings, shift perspectives, and counter negative thoughts, stress, and anxiety. Participants also examine and reframe their own personal narratives under the care and guidance of the professional therapist. This studio requires a 1 or 2 cycle commitment (3 – 6 session).
Therapeutic Visual Arts Group
In this wellness group, a mental health professional introduces therapeutic art-making practices as a tool to process challenging personal events and feelings, shift perspectives, and counter negative thoughts, stress, and anxiety. Participants also examine and reframe their own personal narratives under the care and guidance of the professional therapist. This studio requires a 1 or 2 cycle commitment (3 – 6 session).
Please note, Therapeutic Art Groups require a minimum commitment of
four people regularly participating in order to be active.
If you are interested in joining or facilitating a Therapeutic Art Group,
please reach out to Erica Silberman at esilberman@girlswritenow.org.
Upcoming Community Experiences
Events
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- Community Studios
Page Turners: The Secrets to Keeping Readers Hooked
What does a character feel? Or rather, how does it feel to be a character in a story? This Community Studio sets out to help writers understand how they can develop their stories by understanding their character’s bodies. This studio is all about the 5 senses, taking space in the narrative and creating tension.
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- Community Studios
Mentor Think Tank/Social Hour
This mentor-only studio is a meet and greet to discuss our experiences, share ideas, ask questions, or just stop in to say hello.
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- Community Studios
Line Breaks & Life Stories: Where Poetry Meets Nonfiction
Explore the blended art of creative non-fiction and poetry through a haibun, a hybrid form of the two genres originating from Japan. Learn how to combine the haiku form and narrative prose form to write a haibun. Exploring this form can help you express a topic from a unique angle.
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- College Chats
College Chat: Pathways into the Publishing Industry
Curious about a career in publishing? Join us for a College Chat with representatives from Pace University and The City College of New York to explore undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs designed for aspiring publishing professionals.
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Everything’s a Story: Writing Nonfiction That Reads Like Fiction
A good story is evocative and captivating—and your nonfiction can be as well! In this studio we will examine the ways in which creative writing techniques like sentence structure and POV choice can be applied at the line level to make your nonfiction writing flow and draw in your reader. We’ll then do a few writing exercises of our own to apply what we’ve learned!