Summer 2025
Multimedia Tour (Summer 2025)
Embark on a dynamic multimedia journey where visual storytelling and creative exploration converge to explore diverse perspectives and foster personal growth. This journey experience aims to inspire creativity, deepen understanding, and empower individuals to harness the power of multimedia for impactful storytelling and personal discovery.
Girls Write Now Collaboratory
This Journey is Closed, but You Can Pre-Enroll in a Spring 2027 Journey Now!
Summer Journey Applications Closed
…but you are still invited to join the Collaboratory! Explore other pathways this summer, and be the first to know when fall Journey applications open.
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Summer Journey Applications Closed
…but you are still invited to join the Collaboratory! Explore other pathways this summer, and be the first to know when fall Journey applications open.
As a mentee or mentor in the Multimedia Tour Journey, you’ll have access to a collection of online mini courses designed to help you discover new interests and skills and to try out lots of creative multimedia forms. You’ll be paired with a mentee or mentor for one full cycle, and you’ll meet with them at least twice each month. You’ll attend at least one community engagement experience a month – there are many to choose from to accommodate all of your interests and everyone’s schedules.
- Cycle(s) Fall 2024 (Nov ’24 – Jan ’25), Spring 2025 (March – May), Summer 2025 (July – September)
- Time 3 hours per month
- Areas of Focus Audio, Media, Film, Podcasting
- Available Spots Per Cycle 20
Multimedia Tour Courses
The Multimedia Tour offers short courses that introduce different multimedia forms that mentees and mentors can explore in further depth in pair sessions, community engagement events, and through more journeys in future cycles.
Courses:
- Photopoetry: A Synthesis of Photography and Poetry
- Video Fundamentals
- Graphic Design Fundamentals
- Social Media Fundamentals
- Podcasting Fundamentals
These courses are offered as a part of this journey package. If you’d like to take a course without joining a journey, click here.
Multimedia Tour Mentoring
Mentees and mentors in the Multimedia Tour Journey will be matched for one cycle. Pairs will meet for at least two hour-long sessions each month.
This Journey requires a cycle-long commitment to a mentorship relationship. If you’d like to mentor but cannot commit to this requirement, click here.
Multimedia Tour Community Experiences
Mentees and mentors in the Multimedia Tour Journey must attend at least one Community Experience per month. It is strongly recommended that they attend Exploratory Community Studios, College & Career Chats, and Salon Experiences.
Explore 360 Adventure
Multimedia Tour is a Journey in the Explore 360 Adventure.
All Journeys within this Adventure focus on discovering new genres, mediums, and topics to inspire mentees and mentors to create together. Learn more about the other Adventures offered at Girls Write Now below.
Find Your Journey
Find Your Journey
Explore Tour (Fall 2026)
Explore all of the creative and storytelling pathways Girls Write Now has to offer through a multimedia, multi-genre experience that includes mini courses, exploratory studios, and one-to-one pair sessions.
Teach GWN (Fall 2026)
In this Journey, members of the GWN community will develop curriculum and facilitate a community studio for one or more cycles within GWN’s Collaboratory structure.
The Career Journey: Inside Book Publishing (Fall 2026)
This Journey is for mentors curious about breaking into publishing, mentors already in the industry who want to pass on what they know, and mentees serious about building a career in books. Together you'll map the roles across publishing houses and literary agencies and get into the nuts and bolts of what each one actually does.
Explore Tour (Spring 2027)
Explore Girls Write Now’s creative and storytelling pathways through a multimedia, multi-genre experience featuring mini courses, exploratory studios, and one-to-one pair sessions. Develop skills across fiction, journalism, publishing, video, podcasting, visual storytelling, and more.
Independent Study (Spring 2027)
Create your own experience with our Independent Study Journey. Mentees and mentors meet as a pair, attend events of interest, and use coursework to support creative projects and personal goals. Along the way, you can connect with others during a mid-cycle mixer designed to spark inspiration, share ideas, and build community. The Journey culminates in a showcase where participants present the work they have developed throughout the cycle and celebrate their accomplishments together. Mentees and mentors will benefit by gaining greater independence in their learning, deepening their creative practice, and building meaningful connections while pursuing self-directed goals.
Teach GWN (Spring 2027)
In this Journey, members of the GWN community will develop curriculum and facilitate a Community Studio for one or more cycles within GWN’s Collaboratory structure. Each cycle involves facilitating three Community Studios, one per month. Mentees and mentors will gain valuable skills in leadership, teaching, and community building. Mentees and mentors can facilitate a Community Studio either independently (if they are 18 or older) or together as a pair.
Screenwriting: Crafting Short Film Stories (Spring 2027)
This two-cycle Journey guides participants from crafting a short film script to bringing it to life on screen. In the first cycle, mentors and mentees focus on developing compelling stories, dynamic characters, and engaging dialogue, learning the essentials of screenwriting for short films. In the second cycle, participants move from script to screen, exploring the practical aspects of video production, including planning, collaboration, and bringing their creative vision to life. By the end of the journey, mentees will have both a polished script and hands-on experience in producing their own short film.
Lead Community Change (Part 2) (Spring 2027)
Lead Community Change is a dynamic two-cycle Journey that harnesses the transformative power of storytelling to drive social impact. Aspiring young leaders and activists will unleash their creativity to develop and implement innovative community-based social activism projects, supported by GWN’s rich storytelling resources.
Speak Your Truth: Spoken Word Poetry (Spring 2027)
Explore the power of spoken word poetry as a form of storytelling, self-expression, and social commentary.
Journalism: The Art of Profile Writing (Spring 2027)
Every person has a story to tell, and profile writing offers a way to share those stories with the world. In this Journey, mentees and mentors will learn how to build trust with subjects, conduct respectful interviews, and maintain the writer’s role as observer rather than confidante. The Journey emphasizes a holistic approach that considers subject, writer, and reader.
