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Last Day to Apply for a Fall Journey

Apply to Be a Mentor or Mentee

The Girls Write Now Collaboratory is your home for creative community, and today is the last day to apply for our incredible suite of Fall 2024 Journeys! Each Journey typically runs for three months and is an expertly curated package of mentorship, community experiences, and writing-based courses. Check out our full lineup of Journeys and apply as a mentor, mentee, or member.

If you miss the fall deadline, spring registration opens in a few weeks.

Prompt of the Week

by Salon Artist Christina Olivares

Write a list of places that make you feel safe. Choose one of the spaces from your list and draw/map the space on the page. Then, write couplets speaking back to that space.

Learn how memory and poetry intersect with poet Christina Olivares. Through writing exercises exploring how you might articulate the smallest traces of memory, you will practice how to think about writing sequences of small poems to articulate larger memories.

HONOREE HIGHLIGHT

Gloria Naftali

Remembering Her Legacy

Gloria Naftali was a game-changing feminist and arts patron. She arrived in the United States as a young French girl who eventually attended New York University where she studied Art History. Gloria founded one of the first art galleries in Chelsea with Carol Greene in 1995. Naftali fostered the careers of many influential international artists including Jacqueline Humphries, Rachel Harrison, Michael Krebber, Tony Cokes, Walter Price, and played a meaningful role in the cultural life of NYC and beyond. Gloria believed passionately in the power of art and creativity in fueling the agency of girls and young women to transform and create a better world for all humanity.

BOOK READING

Girls Write Now Brings The Art of the Craft
to Chief Clubhouse

An Evening of Collaborative Storytelling

Last Tuesday, Girls Write Now brought mentee authors and editors of On the Art of the Craft: A Guidebook to Collaborative Storytelling (HarperOne) to the Chief Clubhouse in NYC to speak on a panel and guide a room of accomplished leaders through a thought-provoking writing prompt. Girls Write Now Founder & Executive Director, Maya Nussbaum, and Board Chair and President of HarperOne, Judith Curr, opened the event with a warm welcome, expressing how the book shifts the blueprint of publishing, and why it is an essential read.

SPECIAL EVENT

Rupi Kaur: milk and honey 10th Anniversary Poetry Writing Workshop

Tuesday Oct. 1, 6-8 PM ET, 
The New York Public Library & Live Stream

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rupi Kaur's incomparable debut poetry collection, milk and honey, with a one-night-only poetry writing workshop at the New York Public Library, led by Kaur herself, that will also include readings, and a Q&A facilitated by Girls Write Now's Founder & Executive Director Maya Nussbaum. A livestream of this event will be available on the NYPL event page. 

Open to the public

SPECIAL EVENT

A Celebration of Isabel Allende

Thursday, Oct. 3, 6-7 PM ET, Virtual

This Hispanic Heritage Month, join us in celebration of the phenomenal Chilean writer and journalist, Isabel Allende! In collaboration with Mattel, we will welcome Barbie's Signature Inspiring Women Isabel Allende doll! With the help of Johanna Castillo, Isabel Allende's agent, we will explore Isabel's life, her foundation, and her literary achievements. In her honor we will write in community using prompts inspired by her life and her work!

Plus, two attendees will receive a giveaway including their own Isabel Allende doll!

Open to the public

SPECIAL EVENT

Inspiring Women Write Now

Tuesday Oct. 15, 6-7 PM ET,  Virtual

Explore the story behind Barbie's Inspiring Women Series! In collaboration with Mattel, we'll take you behind the scenes to discover how this extraordinary line of dolls was created, focusing on the selection of iconic figures like Isabel Allende, Bessie Coleman, and Shonda Rhimes. We'll delve into the power of writers as role models, the importance of highlighting BIPOC and immigrant voices, and the value of giving back to our communities.

Plus, two attendees will receive a giveaway including their own Isabel Allende doll!

Open to the public

COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

Student Activism & Art

Thursday, Oct. 17, 7-8:15 PM ET, Virtual

This November is election season, and we want to hear from you about how politics, protests, and social issues have affected your experiences in high school, college, and beyond. Join us for an open and compassionate Community Conversation all about campus during an election year. We'll connect with one another through a discussion about writing as a form of resistance and the ways we can uplift one another to create spaces of hope and joy in classrooms, on campus, at work, and in other parts of our lives.

Open to all mentors, mentees, alum, staff, volunteers, and board members

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Estée Lauder Companies

Summer 2025 Intern, Communications

The Estée Lauder Companies is the global leader in prestige beauty: a well-diversified, brand-building powerhouse of unrivaled creativity and innovation. They recognize people as their most important asset, and they encourage their people to create, to innovate and to be entrepreneurs. As a Global Communications Intern, you will support their efforts primarily in the digital/social space.

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Mattel

Community and Event Coordinator

The American Girl New York City retail store is looking for a dynamic individual for the Community & Event Coordinator position. This position is responsible for driving customers into the location for revenue-generating sales, programs, and events. Responsibilities will include managing all aspects of the planning, coordination and communication for group parties, sales, and store events, as well as planning Influencer, VIP, PR and Celebrity visits.

FELLOWSHIP

City of Boston

2025 Boston Poet Laureate

The Poet Laureate will be a significant fixture in Boston's cultural landscape, creating a unique artistic legacy through public readings, civic events, and community engagement. The Poet Laureate will be able to learn, teach, and be a part of the great literary traditions of Boston. They will attend a variety of civic functions, participate in poetry events, and oversee special civic projects. 

Apply by: October 11, 2024