At Girls Write Now, we collaborate with you throughout all stages of your life, from high school to college to career and beyond. The Collaboratory is Girls Write Now’s central home for connecting and creating as a community during personal and professional transitions, new beginnings, and everything along the way.
In the Collaboratory, you can select and customize writing, mentoring, and community experiences that are just right for your interests, schedule, goals, and passions across a broad range of genres, media, and topics, including academic, professional, leadership development, and more.
For as as little as three months, you may be interested in embarking on a curated Journey as a Mentor or Mentee again. Or, with no extended time commitment, you can simply enjoy the benefits as a Member. And not just any member—as a writer who has already participated in our programs, you are automatically elevated to Siver Member status including access to special insider offerings just for you.
Heads Up! Fill out an application by Monday, September 30 to embark on a Journey with us this Fall!.
Collaboratory Model:
Writing, Mentoring & Community
In the Collaboratory’s 360° approach to developing the whole writer, we nurture writers academically at the intersection of arts and social justice; professionally across all industries; and personally in a healing-centered space.
Every experience in the Collaboratory derives from our holistic formula of writing, mentoring, and community.
WRITING: Learn and build skills though select synchronous and asynchronous courses on a range of genres, media, and topics, including college, leadership.
MENTORING: Connect one-to-one as a Mentor for the Day or a Mentor on Demand, and establish a supportive relationship that lasts a lifetime.
COMMUNITY: Collaborate and share with other inspiring minds at engaging events and experiences that are open to all members.
Collaboratory Options:
Be a Member or Begin a Journey
JOURNEY MENTOR: Make a commitment as a Mentor or Mentee for at least one three-month Journey and get full access to our writing, mentoring, and community experiences and resources.
SILVER MEMBER: Be a part of our community without committing the time to a Journey, and receive select access to our writing, mentoring, and community experiences and resources.
Find the fit that’s right for you—write now!
Our Community:
Gender Inclusion at Girls Write Now
Girls Write Now remains committed to centering, supporting, and amplifying voices of those who have been historically disempowered due to their gender and gender identity. Anchored in intersectional feminism and queer history, we reaffirm our charge to create space for writing, mentoring, community, resources, and opportunities for cis women and girls, transgender people, and the breadth of gender identities that exist within our community. Girls Write Now was founded to protect and promote their rights for freedom and autonomy of mind and body—especially their stories, long-restricted and silenced around the world.
Girls Write Now will continue to expand our thinking beyond the binary to provide a 360 degree perspective of gender in all of our programs, services, media, and institutional structures, practices, and policies. Working closely with our community—diverse in every sense across the lines of gender, as well as age, race, class, religion, geography, and beyond—Girls Write Now opens up new possibilities for all those marginalized by their gender to be heard, understood, accepted, and positioned to lead change.
Leadership: Join Intersectional Voices in DEIB
If you are interested in being part of Girls Write Now’s DEIB advisory body, Intersectional Voices in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (IVDEIB), join us to discuss when, where, and how we belong at Girls Write Now. The diverse perspectives of IVDEIB will inform and make recommendations to leadership on key issues that impact our community, from how we express our values, to our gender policy, programmatic strategies, and more.
Media: Writing Our Way to Wellness
One of our beloved podcast series, Writing our Way to Wellness, is launching its second season! A community-driven, conversational podcast exploring the intersection of wellness and writing, Writing our Way to Wellness has tackled topics from mental health taboos to mental health on social media, and much more.
Has your writing practice improved your health—or vice versa? Tell us about it on Season 2 of Writing Our Way to Wellness.
Upcoming Events
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 6-7 PM ET: A Celebration of Isabel Allende
This Hispanic Heritage Month, join us in celebration of the phenomenal Chilean writer and journalist, Isabel Allende! In collaboration with Mattel, we will welcome Barbie’s Signature Inspiring Women Isabel Allende doll! With the help of Johanna Castillo, Isabel Allende’s agent, we will explore her life, her foundation, and her literary achievements. In her honor we will write in community using writing prompts inspired by her life and her work!
virtual event; open to the public
including all mentees, mentors & alum
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 6-7PM ET: INSPIRING WOMEN WRITE NOW
Dive into the story behind Barbie’s Inspiring Women Series with us! In collaboration with Mattel, we’ll take you behind the scenes to discover how this extraordinary line of dolls was created, focusing on the selection of iconic figures like Isabel Allende and Bessie Coleman. We’ll delve into the power of writers as role models, the importance of highlighting BIPOC and immigrant voices, and the value of giving back to our communities.
virtual event; open to the public
including all mentees, mentors & alum
Opportunities
We’ll always keep you in the know about the latest jobs, internships, contests, and publication opportunities. Read below about some of this week’s curated resources!