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 Scientist and the Fawn
The Covid-19 Pandemic left many individuals isolated and unemployed. Still, I would have never considered a career path as a Mad Scientist…
getting older
Maybe our photos will fill the gaps my memory won't.
The Road Trip
One trip that tests their relationship, will Connie and Alex survive?
How to Cut Your Hair
How to Cut Your Hair is an emotional exploration into the trauma caused by the fraught relationship between Blackness and femininity that follows Black women in every aspect of their lives.
Check
This poem is about my complicated, love-hate relationship with worry.
The Postcard Monologues
A small story of a girl's romantic encounters, mannerisms, and meetings told through her own POV and the perspective of a postcard she keeps in her room.
Love’s Sacrifice
Most people know their boundaries when it comes to love. I’m still trying to figure out mine.
Nostalgic Smells
My grandmother was diagnosed with dementia in 2020, I remember her through memories we shared years ago, and I wrote about these memories, by continuing to remember her as she would want me to.
Mom Pants
I have always been perceived to be younger than I actually was; at first, I was not too fond of it, but it eventually grew on me.
How Feminist Art Was Invented
This poem is inspired largely by Artemisia Gentileschi's art, life, and my own experiences.