Speaking In First Draft

An Interview Podcast

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.

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Maisha Jahan Chowdhury . 5 years ago

An Eye-opening Experience

Maisha Jahan Chowdhury's visit to Myanmar Refugee Camp.

Kailee Ortiz . 5 years ago

Cerulean Summer

If you've delved into the addiction of nostalgia these days, you can relate to this recurring poem and its story of two children spending their last summer together.

Victory Ogunnaya . 5 years ago

Why I love you

This piece is all about love and how it blinds us. It's a beautiful thing that we all experience in our own way. This is just a window into another love story that will warm your heart.

Victoria Gao . 5 years ago

Spinning Genes

This story highlights the positive and negative impacts of gene editing tools on a person’s health and personality with the use of time travel and fantasy character, the Immortal Wish Maker.

Tori Phelps . 5 years ago

Growing Up

This is the story of Alani, an abused girl who is taken away from her mother by Child Protective Services and finds herself in a “living hell.” To get by, she lies.

Toa Mohemed . 5 years ago

A Life of Comedy and Tragedy

This is a piece on the regurgitation of trauma from the perspective of a young girl transitioning into her authentic self through reflection.

Wagiha Mariam . 5 years ago

What’s your favorite color

This piece is about a colorblind painter who is navigating her way in an art piece before a deadline. She cannot see a single color but has to finish the piece using her senses.