Summer 2025
Independent Study
Create your own experience with our Independent Study Journey. Meet as a pair, attend events of interest, and use coursework to help you plan creative projects and meet your goals.
Girls Write Now Collaboratory
This Journey Is Closed, but You Can Enroll in a Summer 2026 Journey Now!
Independent Study Course
This self-paced Independent Study course will provide resources and tips for those working on creative project independently. You’ll learn about study spaces & materials, SMART Goal Setting, visualization, calendaring, time management, procrastination – and more!
Independent Study Mentoring
Mentees and mentors in this Journey will be matched for one cycle. Pairs will meet for at least two hour-long sessions each month. This journey is open to both mentor/mentee pairs and peer-to-peer pairs.
Independent Study Community Experiences
Mentees and mentors in the Independent Study Journey must attend at least one Community Experiences of their choice per month.
Explore 360 Adventure
The Independent Study Journey is a part of the Explore 360 Adventure.
Journeys in the Explore 360 Adventure focus on introducing a variety of genres, topics, and ideas to participants who want to try a little bit of everything. It is recommended for any mentee or mentor who wants to get a taste of all that Girls Write Now has to offer!
Learn more about the other Adventures offered at Girls Write Now below.
Find Your Journey
Find Your Journey
Careers for Creatives: Unexpected Opportunities (Spring 2025)
The Careers for Creatives: Unexpected Opportunities Journey is perfect for mentees and mentors who are looking to turn their passion for storytelling, content creation, or journalism into a career. Through a dynamic online course, mentoring sessions, and live networking events, you will explore various career paths available to writers today, learn practical skills to help you succeed, and discover how to build a sustainable career that aligns with your interests and strengths. Discover career paths in finance, technology, corporate communications, publishing and more!
Read: Memoir (Spring 2025)
Each cycle, we’ll close read a new book and discuss it at monthly fixed meetings. We’ll focus, in particular, on reading as writers and taking note of the ways each author crafts their story. This cycle, we'll be reading How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair.
