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
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Climate change effects our whole planet. On the news we see the melting of the ice caps or the fires in Australia, but the impacts of global warming can be seen even throughout a city.
They think I can be a dang SUPERHERO?… Hollie Harper’s Life@GWN
Charlie Chaplin said “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Hollie Harper’s days are never wasted. For the last
“My daughter makes me think I am a superhero–that I can do anything”… Nneka & Christine Obiamalu’s Life@ GWN
Girls Write Now Community Manager Christine Obiamalu, our newest staff member, may be the “baby” of the Girls Write Now
“I would hope that I make people feel like they could go for their dreams…” Jocelynn Landon’s Life@GWN
A Profile by Fayonna Jean-Philippe | Spring 2026 GWN Cycle In the 2026 Spring Cycle of the Girls Write Now
The Journey into a Self-Proclaimed Funny Person’s First Time Writing Comedy
A darkly funny take on identity, ambition, and modern life. A mentee at Girls Write Now navigates cultural confusion, people-pleasing instincts, and the dream of running a country with empathy, practicality, and a little tyranny.
friendship
A poem on the constellations in our lives.
“My dad taught me how to be curious…” Bruce Morrow & Tenzin Gund-Morrow’s Life@GWN
Fathers are some of our first teachers, and the best students learn by asking questions. For GWN board member Bruce Morrow's son, Tenzin Gund-Morrow, his dad gave every early curiosity somewhere to go—from ballet classes at the age of three to isolating strawberry DNA at science camp, Bruce encouraged his son's interests, and delighted in where they led.
If you are transgender, you have to live
The title comes from a tweet that reads: "if u r transgender u have to live. if u accomplish something else then good. if u accomplish nothing else then good. but u have to live"
golden girls
Gold can be shaped and formed, so can love.
contingent truth
The same words arranged in identical lines can tell conflicting stories if listed in a different order. And a contingent truth is, by definition, true, but could just as easily have been false.
