An Interview Podcast
Speaking in First Draft
Season 3 Debuts on March 5th!
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
A History of Runners
an ode to running in the form of a prose poem
a poem where she moves her head away after José Olivarez
I have heard that the body remembers what the mind does not. Whoever’s mind this poem is birthed from, I pray that your body heals from this memory.
“Writing is taking the reins of my life into my own hands”…Davia Schendel and Carolyn Zheng’s Life@GWN
“Writing is taking the reins of my life into my own hands”…Davia Schendel and Carolyn Zheng’s Life@GWN
Art Imitates Life (Part Two)
Everyone wants a picture perfect ending, where the couple ends up together and lives their dream. But is that possible
Art Imitates Life (Part One)
Everyone wants a picture perfect ending, where the couple ends up together and lives their dream. But is that possible for the struggling artist and the therapist who see the world differently?
Seek Joy in Everything You Do… Alex Ewing & Elizabeth Stone’s Life@ GWN
Mentee Alex Ewing and her mentor Elizabeth Stone may come from opposite ends of the country and have a 50-year age gap, but when they meet up over coffee, a good book, or an in-depth Twilight presentation, they’re thick as thieves. Neither knew what to expect when they joined Girls Write Now for the Summer 2025 cycle, but both wanted community and collaboration to shape their creative practices. In their second cycle together in the Collaboratory, they’ve only grown closer, each gaining new insights, perspectives, and hope for their future together and in their own creative practices. Read on to learn more about how this pair struck their balance.
“Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new. Give us more to see…” Irene Cho and Alexis Grusby’s Life@GWN
In their second cycle together, this peer-to-peer pair bridges seven years and certainly feels more like mentor to mentee. Considerable distance lies between the two as geographic opposites, with one on each coast of the United States, East and West.
“All You Have to Do is Not Give Up, Okay?” Winnie Holzman’s Life@ Part II
In the second part of our candid conversation with WICKED’s co-writer Winnie Holzman, she opens up about how she copes with fear and defines success—through authenticity, laughter, honest critique, and the power of persistence.
“We’re Not in Kansas Anymore…” Winnie Holzman’s Life@GWN
“We’re Not in Kansas Anymore…” Winnie Holzman’s Life@GWN To Winnie Holzman, co-writer of WICKED, writing is all about what happens
Book of Alchemy Review
The process of “finding who we are,” Jaouad suggests, is never finished, but her prompts and methods keep the search alive in her new book.
