Girls Write Now Media
Podcasts
We are a community of audio storytellers! Enjoy our seasonal podcasts like Writing Our Way to Wellness and Speaking in First Draft, and special series podcasts like A Fistful of Verse and Lunch with LITNYS.
Featured Podcast Series
Speaking in First Draft
An Interview Podcast Platforming the Current & Next Generation of Storytellers. Members of the Girls Write Now community share a draft of one of their works in progress and discuss both the writing process and what creative expression looks like to them.Listeners have the opportunity to engage with the inner machinations and perspectives of writers, producers, and artists from a diversity of ethnic, gender, age, socioeconomic, and professional backgrounds. Check back biweekly for new episodes and stories!
Writing Our Way To Wellness
A Fistful of Verse
Lunch with LitNYS
No Brainer: Podcast Trailer
This is our trailer for No Brainer, a podcast about the ins and outs of living with chronic neurological conditions.
What Really Happens in the White House
On What Really Happens in the White House, we get the inside scoop from some of the Presidents’ helpers. And it’s likely not who you expected. Today we’re talking to none other than… the Presidents’ First Pets!
If I could shed my skin and reinvent myself, I would be the…
Ever wonder why the Mean Girl is so goddamn mean or the heroine is so annoyingly perfect? Wonder no more. She’s Just the… is a podcast-come-personal-reflection from trope super-nerds Yasmin Zayed and Aoife Sheridan.
Guide Dog Chronicles
As research for our screenplay featuring a character who is blind with a guide dog, we interviewed Lorri Bernson, who works at Guide Dogs of America and has had four guide dogs of her own.
Audio Diaries: April 7, 2020-November 7, 2020
Since we could no longer meet face-to-face due to the New York Covid-19 lockdown, we decided to communicate by audio diary.
A Fudged Quest
A Fudged Quest is a semi-comedic ghost story detailing the misadventures of a possessed mannequin child in search of fudge. For added atmosphere, click play on the accompanying audio file while you read!
Faces
“Faces” is about the way young women view themselves in a world that presents a single standard of beauty. These lyrics push back against those barriers and question the value systems from which they originate.
The Happenings at the Estate
This is an interactive reading/listening experience. Listen to the accompanying audio with headphones and read at your pace.
Double Vision
The newspapers called them “a monstrosity,” “sent from the devil himself,” “a burden to a mother.” But Judith just saw her twin sisters and a future where only one of them would survive.
Poetry Podcast: How A Poem Comes to Be
How does a poem come to be? Mentee Angie Galindo Perez reads her poem-in-progress, "Where I Am," and shares how she is crafting the piece.
