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
The Vision Lab: Youth Voices for Change
The Vision Lab is a project created through the Girls Write Now Lead Incubator Journey. Here, young change makers share their stories, projects, and insights as they work to make a difference in their communities and the world. Each episode is hosted by a Lead Incubator mentee who invites an expert to join them in the conversation about their social activism and community-driven work. Listen in as they explore big questions, bold ideas, and the vital role young leaders play in creating meaningful change today.
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
Life Improvement Inc.
In a dystopian future America, the third great depression drives a desperate teenager to an unconventional job interview for the mysterious company, Life Improvement Inc. And what she finds out about the company is…unexpected.
Call Me Crazy
A parody of “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen.
Slang culture: an immigrant teen’s arch nemesis
Can slang culture even impact an immigrant teen at all?
Mood Ring
I mess up my mood by overthinking…
Extend Your Life 101: Peeling an Orange
In this podcast, you'll learn all about the revolutionary practice of orange meditation, and how peeling an orange every day may just extend your life.
Have You Ever…
This is a video about the natural world and how much of an impact it has on us in our day-to-day lives.
Cross-Pollination
Cross Pollination is a podcast featuring Mentor Tingting Wei and Mentee Nayeon Park, as they explore their respective identities as Chinese and Korean Americans and how those identities have shaped their childhoods in America.
Speaking on Queer Boricua YA Fauxmance and Family
For episode 6 of Speaking in First Draft, Mentee Jamilah Araf interviews Mentor Elle Gonzalez Rose about her debut novel Caught in a Bad Fauxmance.
Speaking on Night Emotions
This week’s theme is dreams. Episode five of Speaking in First Draft dives deep into the raw emotions that come up in relationships and in first-draft writing.
Speaking on Family Worlds
This week brings you a special episode where both of our guests, Ayah Al-Masyabi and Anne Hellman White, share the first drafts of their current works in progress.
