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Girls Write Now has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Teen Vogue, The Today Show, Book Riot, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and many more.
Girls Write Now is Featured in Crunchy Tales Article Highlighting the Importance of Mentoring
Girls Write Now was recently featured on Crunchy Tales as a great organization to become involved in as a later-in-life Mentor.
Girls Write Now with Melinda French Gates as She Launches her New Book
Girls Write Now was invited to hear Melinda French Gates speak at the New York City Center about her new release, The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward. The book is published through Moment of Lift and Flatiron Books, an imprint of Girls Write Now partner Macmillan Publishers. Girls Write Now is also a three-time grantee of Melinda Gates' Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health.
Mentee Lydia Bach Makes Waves with Recent Publication, Today Show Appearance & Frazzled Lit Shout-Out
Congratulations to mentee Lydia Bach, whose list of accomplishments has been growing exponentially this year, including a publication, a feature on the Today Show, and inclusion on a short story longlist!
Rupi Kaur Shouts Out Girls Write Now on The Kelly Clarkson Show for International Day of the Girl
Poet and Girls Write Now Honoree Alum Rupi Kaur gave Girls Write Now a shout out on the Kelly Clarkson Show in honor of International Day of the Girl.
7 Ways to Make Younger Friends in Retirement
August 11th, 2022 The Wall Street Journal “Intergenerational friendships can be powerful. The trick is starting them”. The Wall Street
Mentee Madison Mailutha Honored in Teen Writing Contest
Fourteen-year-old mentee Madison Mailutha was named an honorable mention in New York Public Library's James Baldwin Teen Creative Contest, which asked teens in New York City to take inspiration from Baldwin's work to tell the world what they're passionate about.
Abbi Jacobson Talks with Girls Write Now About Prelude Fellowship
Girls Write Now honoree and longtime champion Abbi Jacobson recently spoke with Girls Write Now about her new initiative, the Prelude Fellowship. Applications are due November 10!
Cover Reveal for the Girls Write Now 2025 Anthology: Hope Lives In Our Words
It’s almost here! The Girls Write Now 2025 Anthology will be published August 26, 2025 via Dutton Books, in collaboration
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CHAPTERS 2013: Get to Know Adele Griffin
Our next CHAPTERS reading is coming up soon and this month’s featured guest author is YA superstar Adele Griffin. Watch
Apply Now: Be a GWN Mentor or Mentee!
“If it weren’t for Girls Write Now, I couldn’t have gotten this far… I have faith in my writing, and
Reporting on the Reading: Girls Write Now Kicks off CHAPTERS
What can I say about the first CHAPTERS reading? It was good? It was entertaining? Words cannot describe how amazing
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I must say, the Dorkshops as a whole were one awesome experience. It was a whole new world of technology,
Destination Dorkshop
The spring Digital Workshops (or “Dorkshops”) took off with a journey: for the first Writing Lab of the year we
Let’s Take a Trip: Journeying with Words at GWN
On a brisk March day, mentees and mentors gathered in Girls Write Now’s headquarters in midtown Manhattan to travel to
Snap, Capture, Lede: Travel Writing in a Nutshell
At the journalism workshop, I learned how to describe the space and places around me in a way that would
Oh, the Places We’ll Write!
As a teenager living in New York, my experience with travel has been severely limited to the East Coast. So,