Join author Joy L. Smith, Girls Write Now mentee alumna and Scholastic Gold Key recipient, for a celebration of her powerful debut YA novel, Turning.
It’s time to put a pause on the endless scrolling through TikTok and become a star yourself! The Zoom fatigue is real, so we’re changing things up this year to showcase your stories on TikTok! Instead of having a virtual Girls Write Now Live event, we’re taking the performances online and showcasing them as a part of Girls Write Now’s first TikTok series. Come learn more at this exciting Community Chat!
This generative creative nonfiction workshop will look at the many ways to explore and reconstruct memories on the page, pulling from readings and also using writing exercises to explore expansive and sometimes experimental approaches to moving through time and space in creative nonfiction.
Most of us aren’t elite athletes, but everyone has the ability to adapt the elite athlete mindset techniques to settle, refocus and ultimately harness our power to succeed. Find out how to train your brain to stay in the present and move past negative thoughts on your way to achieving your goals.
Hi, edit team! An agenda will be shared via Slack on the Friday prior to the meeting so that you know what to expect or prepare for. Let's make some storytelling magic!
Hi, edit team! An agenda will be shared via Slack on the Friday prior to the meeting so that you know what to expect or prepare for. Let's make some storytelling magic!
Barbie Dream Gap, The Female Quotient and Girls Write Now join forces to make the workplace for women better—which makes the workplace better for everyone.
Come learn how to express ideas and tell stories with line, shape, color and rhythm.In this interactive workshop, you'll hear about the behind-the-scenes process of Girls Write Now's graphic design aesthetic and get the chance to create designs for pieces written by the Girls Write Now community and for your own work!
Find the chemistry between your YA characters in this 360 workshop. Attendees will learn how to create authentic and meaningful connection between romantic leads. Prepare to master the swoon, sizzle and slow burn!
“What if half of history was missing?” Gina Luria Walker, a gender studies professor and historian asks. This is a salient question, given that cis-gender men are historically overrepresented as the authors and subjects of both history books and biographies. At this Community Chat, we’ll reflect on which histories get shared and also do some writing exercises that will help us chronicle our own lives.
