Plus, joining forces with UBS: Take control of your financial future!
June 5-11
Featured Girls Write Now Story
Resigned Lockheart
By Mentee Shannoya Wallace
It is an unusual feeling, but yet again, it feels right. Kissing her feels like a puzzle being completed.
Enrollment Spotlight
ENROLLMENT
Apply for the Girls Write Now Collaboratory
Our New Home for Mentors & Mentees to Connect & Create
For 25 years, Girls Write Now has created dynamic, cutting edge ways for young women and gender expansive young adults to be mentored by professionals across a wide range of industries. The Collaboratory is the Girls Write Now model at its best—optimized with ever-growing resources and opportunities for mentors and mentees, including hybrid workshops, specialized learning journeys, and monthly studios focused on your genres and interests.
Want to see the Collaboratory in action? Join us at a Summer Exploratory and learn all about this year's offerings.
If you are continuing as a participant from 2020 onwards, secure your spot for the 2023-2024 year in the Community Hub.
EVENT RECAP
Celebrating the 2023 Anthology
Mentees Read Their Stories in Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything
Last week, we had a blast celebrating the launch of Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything: 2023 Anthology at P&T Knitwear Bookstore. Mentees shared their original featured pieces. The reading closed with remarks from 2022 Girls Write Now Agent of Change award-winner Chrissy King, author of the anthology forward and the Body Liberation Project.
SPEAKING IN FIRST DRAFT PODCAST
Speaking On the Writer's Guild of America Strike
Mentors Micharne Cloughley & Hannah Rothblatt Host A Special Episode
In this bonus episode, TV writers Micharne Cloughley and Hannah Rothblatt from the Girls Write Now community share their involvement in the Writer's Guild of America strike and what it means for the industry at large. The discussion covers the biggest issues affecting TV writers, including AI and the proliferation of streaming, and what the WGA is doing to secure the labor rights of the people who create our favorite shows.
Prompt of the Week
Sounds of Summer: Writing Playlists & Prompts by Girls Write Now Fellow Sally Familia
Through moments of discomfort and unease, how does your body know that it is loved by you?
Every week this summer, we're bringing you a fresh writing playlist and prompt to get the creative juices flowing. Listen to this week's soothing sounds curated by Girls Write Now Fellow and music maven Sally Familia!
Sally Familia
they/them
Fellow
Happening Write Now
WRITING WORKS
Money Matters: Securing Your Financial Future!
Wednesday, June 7, 6:30-7:45 PM ET
In this 2nd installation of our Financial Literacy series, we engage in candid conversation on all things money. This virtual, Q&A style workshop encourages you to ask questions you may have about your financial decisions! With topics ranging from liability management, asset allocation, transfer of wealth, savings and compounding wealth, and retirement, treat yourself to the gift of a lifetime, confidence in your financial future!
Open to all mentors, mentees, alum, staff & the public.
SPECIAL EVENT
End of Year Celebration
Friday, June 9, 6-8 PM ET, Hybrid Event
It's time to party! Current mentors and mentees, join our End of Year Celebration, where we will toast YOU and your accomplishments. Let's kick back and enjoy performances, acknowledgments, games, fortune telling, a photo booth, and more! Come mingle and have a good time with the community either at our NYC headquarters, or virtually. We can't wait! See you there!
Open ONLY to mentors & mentees
A Look Ahead...
Tuesday, Jun. 13, 6:30-7:30 PM ET, Summer Exploratory
Summer Exploratory: Query Letter Writing
Open to the public, prospective mentors & mentees
Wednesday, Jun. 21, 6:30-7:30 PM ET, Summer Exploratory:
Summer Exploratory: Culture, Language, & Storytelling
Open to the public, prospective mentors & mentees
Get The Gig!
PARTNER JOB OPPORTUNITY
Dotdash Meredith
Testing Editor, Commerce Researcher
As a Testing Editor on the Commerce team, you will support Dotdash Meredith's product testing initiative to create meaningful product insights for our users in the form of original content. You will be involved in our Research + Testing process from start to finish, including testing some of the products yourself. After insights are in, the Testing Editor will review them and may update articles in the brand's voice and style to explain to readers why we're recommending the specific products.
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 INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
NBCUniversal
Telemundo 52 Internships – Academic Year
The NBCUniversal Internship Program allows students to unlock their potential by contributing to big projects in meaningful ways that matter. Interns will work side by side with show and story producers under deadline to create accurate and compelling stories. Interns assist with a variety of News Gathering responsibilities, including research, interviewing viewers, story development, fact-checking, and more.
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
Bow Seat
2023 Ocean Awareness Contest
The annual Ocean Awareness Contest is a platform for young people to learn about environmental issues through art-making and creative communication, and become advocates for positive change. Students are invited to create Visual Art (any medium), Creative Writing, Film, Interactive & Multimedia, Performing Arts: Music & Dance, and Poetry & Spoken Word that explores their connection to water and creatively communicates the need to protect this vital resource. Winners can receive up to $1,500 in cash prizes.
Submissions due June 13, 2023.
Check out more opportunities here.
