An Interview Podcast
Speaking in First Draft
Season 4 Debuts on March 4th!
First released in September 2023, 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 will have the opportunity to engage with the inner machinations and perspectives of writers, producers, and artists from a diversity of episodes and stories.
Listen to Speaking in First Draft
Listen to Speaking in First Draft
The Seersucker Man
A jaded seer and a dorky history student solve supernatural mysteries in their swanky apartment building… that used to be a sanitarium. Their first case is a mysterious spirit dressed in seersucker.
Episode 3: Inequality in Education: How Music, Books, and Language Make Community Strong
In Episode 3 of The Vision Lab: Youth Voices for Change, Lead Incubator mentee Joi Ysabella Carla Salvino talks with Lourdes Macias, a rising sophomore at a New York college studying international relations, about who gets access to education in the U.S. and abroad. Their conversation turns to what communities already have—the music they make, the books they share, the language they speak—and how those become tools for closing the gap.
Powerless
"Powerless" was inspired by the recent Los Angeles fires that directly affected myself and my community. Through this piece, I share the pain, chaos, and hope that illuminated from the event.
My Apple Pie
It is a heartwarming story of making a baked good with love, with a family member you love.
Just Like the Seasons Change I Change Too
My piece discusses the favorite memories that come from the seasons of fall, winter, spring, and summer. I wrote this to show how each season gives me different emotions and experiences.
Rooted In Us
so you tie the knot and i let you go amity in time now froze ribbon and lace trim lining
Across the Table But A World Apart
How an interaction between teens across table became an intense core memory, riddled with conflicting emotions, and later becoming the
For years, I was very good at being fine.
This piece has been named an honorable mention of Lena Dunham’s Famesick Writing Contest with Girls Write Now. “What nobody tells you
But You Don’t Look Autistic
This piece has been named an honorable mention of Lena Dunham’s Famesick Writing Contest with Girls Write Now. “Masking was exhausting and
Up & Down
This piece has been named an honorable mention of Lena Dunham’s Famesick Writing Contest with Girls Write Now.
