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
Dear Kanye
Dear Kanye, nine days ago I called financial offices of the colleges I applied to. Told them I had to submit my FAFSA without parental information….
Pelo Malo
Smoke rises, hot metal searing each rebellious strand.
Saturday Morning
“Come on, Ma, let me sleep.”
Dinner Time
A poem of food and family.
A Slight Misunderstanding
I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. I was just being Joy, being ten at a restaurant and heading to the bathroom.
Yellow Dress
Everyone has been acting different lately. I can’t blame them. Even I’m different.
Untitled
I loved everything in Anne’s fridge.
Cute Teachers
Everybody loves a cute teacher, even if they're a bad one….
Hair I am
Look at me. Look at my hair.
Nagiti-Buitu
My grandmother is eighty-two years old…and yet she still has the life of a Youngblood.
