ENROLLMENT

It's Not Too Late to Join the Spring 2025 Cycle

Apply as a Mentor or Mentee by January 15

Tell your friends, colleagues, and family! You have a little more time to get in your applications to join the Girls Write Now Collaboratory as a mentor or mentee this spring. Explore self love, creative career opportunities, poetry, activism, and more in one of our dynamic Spring Journeys.

If you are currently enrolled in a Fall Journey, look out for your renewal application by mid-January.

FROM OUR COMMUNITY

Prompt of the Week

by Jamilah Musa and Kristy Cunningham Bigler, Community Studio Facilitators

If gods and goddesses are so mighty, why do they need mortals? Draw or write a response.

In Jamilah and Kristy's Visual Storytelling studio, join fellow comics and cartoon enthusiasts to explore writing and visual prompts. Stop by each month with your favorite writing and image-making tools to go on a new sequential adventure to unleash your inner visual storyteller.

Explore all studios & register here.

COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES

Start 2025 Strong with a Community Studio

Write, Draw, Speak Out, and More!

Is your new year's resolution to write more? Maybe it's to get better at public speaking, or to take care of your mental health. No matter what you're planning for 2025, we have a community studio that's perfect for your goals. Led by Girls Write Now community members, Studios are the perfect way to connect with other writers while doing something to feed your creative spirit. If you're a prospective mentor or mentee, you can also join a Studio to learn more about Girls Write Now!

Open to all mentees, mentors, and members. If you don't yet have a Portal account, it's easy to set one up and become a Girls Write Now Member.

COLLEGE CHAT

Scholarships & Fellowships: Securing Funding for School

Saturday, Jan. 11, 4:45-6 PM ET, Virtual

You've gotten into your dream school... now how do you pay for it?! Get practical and helpful advice from a panel featuring undergraduate and graduate students, including Girls Write Now alum, from diverse disciplines, areas of study, and universities. These panelists are recipients of prestigious fellowships and scholarships and will share their experiences in a Q&A format.

Required for College Journey participants.
Open to all mentors and mentees.

CAREER CHAT

Audio/Podcasting Career Chat

Tuesday, Jan. 14, 4:45-6 PM ET, Virtual

This Chat will explore the essential attributes and pathways to positions within the audio and podcasting industries. Here is your chance to ask all of your burning questions with a panel that covers everything from podcast production to audiobooks!

Open to all mentees, mentors, and members. If you don't yet have an account, it's easy to set one up and become a Girls Write Now Member.

COMMITTEE STUDIO

Committee on Print Editorial

Wednesday, Jan. 15, 7-8 PM ET, Virtual

Join us for the kick-off Intersectional Voices in Editorial (IV Edit) Print Committee meeting as we gather to talk about Girls Write Now's 2025 Anthology and share our hopes and dreams. Who should write the Foreword and who should provide a blurb? What goes into making this meaningful book? You'll learn about the publishing process and meet the mentors and mentees who will be editing the anthology.

Open to all IV Edit – Print committee members, mentees, mentors & members

COLLABORATORY WORKSHOP

Literature to Life: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Saturday, Jan. 18, 2-4 PM ET
Girls Write Now Headquarters
247 W 37th Street, Suite 10

Girls Write Now presents Literature to Life's stage presentation of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez, performed by Elizabeth Raquel Ramirez, and adapted and directed by Ana Maria Jomolca. Based on the novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, © 2017
Production produced in partnership with Freedom Reads.

Required for Playwriting Journey participants.
Open to mentors, mentees and members. If you don't yet have an account, it's easy to set one up and become a Girls Write Now Member.

FELLLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

PBS

Mid-Career Accelerator Fellowship for Creatives

The PBS Accelerator Fellowship for Creatives provides mid-career content makers who have experienced barriers to entering the media industry paid employment opportunities with third-party productions working on PBS shows. PBS is hiring a new round of Fellows for many of its shows. This is a one-year paid fellowship for mid-career producers or editors. For an overview of the Fellowship including eligibility and a list of the positions, head to the Girls Write Now Portal.

Due Date: January 12, 2025

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Penguin Random House

Publicity Assistant, Harmony, Rodale & Convergent Books

The Random House publicity department is currently seeking a Publicity Assistant to join the Harmony Books, Rodale Books, and Convergent Books team. Harmony, Rodale, and Convergent Books are three distinct industry leaders in publishing prescriptive narrative non-fiction, illustrated food and lifestyle, self-improvement, health, wellness, spirituality, parenting, and business empowerment books. Based in New York, Harmony, Rodale, and Convergent are part of Penguin Random House, LLC, the world's largest general trade book publisher.

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

National Endowment for the Arts

Translation Project Fellowships

Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. The work to be translated should be of interest for its literary excellence and merit. We encourage translation projects that feature languages, perspectives, and writers not well represented in English, as well as work that has not previously been translated into English. The NEA is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and fostering mutual support for the diverse beliefs and values of all individuals and groups.

Due Date: January 16, 2025