WRITING WORKS

College & Career Chat

Wednesday, Apr. 12, 4:45-5:45 PM ET, Virtual

Take charge of your goals as Girls Write Now teams up with powerhouse professionals across schools and industries! Consider this your all-access pass to be part of an intergenerational exchange with professionals from innovative companies and colleges including Penguin Random House, Google, and Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation. Enter a warm, intimate space, and emerge with a new trajectory and contacts for life.

Open to all mentors, mentees, and alum

MENTOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

What's Love Got To Do With It? Mindfulness, Compassion & You

Friday, Apr. 14, 6-7:15 PM ET, Virtual

For this professional development session, we offer you a wellness practice. Join Mindfulness Coach Oneika Mays for a nourishing conversation about mindfulness and Metta (loving kindness). Oneika will discuss the history of mindfulness and offer a practice that allows participants to love themselves just as they are. Leave feeling refreshed and connected!

Open to mentors across programs, alum, board & staff

PUBLISHING 360

Eye-Catching Cover Design & Layout

Saturday, Apr. 15, 2-4 PM ET, Virtual

At our final Publishing 360 workshop of the program year, we'll create and analyze visuals for the Girls Write Now Zine. Using graphic design fundamentals and tips from book designers, we'll create covers that represent our collective work.

Open to Publishing 360 mentors and mentees

POETRY CONTEST

The Art of Kindness Poetry Contest Winners

Follow Girls Write Now and Channel Kindness for the Full List

How do you give and receive kindness? Mentees and alum from the Girls Write Now community submitted poems answering this question. The results are beautiful, including three honorable mentions and one grand prize winner selected by judges at Channel Kindness, a project of Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation, and will be revealed this week across our social media!

MENTOR SPOTLIGHT

Lauren Kiel & Davia Schendel

Girls Write Now Blog & Podcast Highlights

Girls Write Now mentors are changing the game—from leading philanthropy initiatives at Bloomberg like Lauren Kiel, to re-evaluating the grieving process in poetry like Davia Schendel. Get caught up on our latest post for Life@GWN and the third episode of Girls Write Now's podcast, Speaking in First Draft to learn more about these inspiring women.

Join a passionate community of writers and change-makers when you apply to be a mentor at Girls Write Now! Applications open this spring. Learn more on our site.

Prompt of the Week

From Darien Hsu Gee, Girls Write Now Teaching Artist

Write the first line of a poem or essay about someone in your lineage, by blood, or by choice, or by inspiration. What are your connections to this person? Try to get at an emotional truth, a small revealing of yourself or another in your life, real or imagined.

What the heck is micro-fiction and how can it turn into poetry? Find out in this salon from Darien Hsu Gee, author of Allegiance, a collection of micro essays about family, motherhood, and growing up Chinese American.

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

Mentees Named New York State Youth Poet Laureate Finalists

Mentees Thisbe Wu, Megumi Jindo & Madeline Hutchinson Advance to Final Round

The National Youth Poet Laureate Program and Urban Word recently announced the selection of 13 young poets as finalists in the first-ever New York State Youth Poet Laureate Program, including Girls Write Now mentee alum Thisbe Wu, and mentees Megumi Jindo and Madeline Hutchinson. State winners will be announced on April 28. In celebration, mentee Madeline Hutchinson will host a live conversation about poetry on Girls Write Now's Instagram later this month. 

PARTNER JOB OPPORTUNITY

Penguin Random House

Editorial Assistant, Doubleday (Fiction)

Doubleday Publishing Group, a storied leader in commercial and literary publishing, seeks an Editorial Assistant. The Editorial Assistant will support the publication of fiction and will work closely with a roster of talented authors and their books, which over the years has included Claire Lombardo's The Most Fun We Ever Had, Kelly Barnhill's When Women Were Dragons,  and various titles by Ron Rash, Margaret Atwood, Kate Atkinson, and Kevin Barry.

For Partner Job & Internship Opportunities, fill out the Employment Interest Form after submitting the application so Girls Write Now can support you during the application process!

Check out more opportunities here.

PARTNER PROGRAM OPPORTUNITY

RBC Capital

U.S. Pathways Diversity Award Program, New York

RBC Pathways offers students who identify as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latinx, and/or Native American with the opportunity to learn about the financial industry and specifically, what it’s like to work at RBC Capital Markets.

For Partner Job & Internship Opportunities, fill out the Employment Interest Form after submitting the application so Girls Write Now can support you during the application process!

Check out more opportunities here.

CONTEST

The Fountainhead Essay Contest

$5,000 Grand Prize

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is a provocative novel that presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. Enter the Fountainhead Essay Contest to win a $5,000 prize! Follow the instructions on the website to receive more information on how to apply.

Application due date is April 27, 2023.

Check out more opportunities here.