Featured Story

Colombia: The Place I Can Always Return

By Mentee Maria Ruiz

The memories of seeing the mountains keep my spirit and my motivation alive, but they bring back childhood memories that I mourn.

Featured Partner Internship

Scholastic

Fall 2022 Data and Analytics Internship

Join Girls Write Now partner, Scholastic, as a Data and Analytics Intern this fall. Students in this program will learn from the world's largest publisher of children's books the intricacies of measuring publishing performance they might have never considered

Remember, Girls Write Now participants and alum should fill out the Opportunity Interest Form in addition to their application.

Featured Partner Job Opportunity

HarperCollins

Marketing Coordinator, Children's Books

Inspire a love of reading in the next generation as the Marketing Coordinator with Girls Write Now's partner, HarperCollins. Apply to work with the publisher of The Hate U Give, the Warriors series, and other modern classics!

Remember, Girls Write Now participants and alum should fill out the Opportunity Interest Form in addition to their application.

Featured Writing Contest

The ruth weiss Foundation Annual Poetry Grant

Deadline: August 1

Based on the legacy of environmental artist ruth weiss, the foundation offers grants to poets writing about the power of nature. Winners will be selected in the Youth, Emerging Writers, and Maverick Poet categories.

Girls Write Now participants, both currently enrolled and alum, can waive their entrance fee with a special discount code. Check Slack for details. 

Prompt of the Week

Eureka!

By Sheena Daree Miller, DEI Advisor

Pick a thing, maybe something you enjoy, maybe something you could do without. Write a story that reimagines how, when, and why it was invented. 

Community Spotlight

Book Announcements

Celebrating the Work of Girls Write Now Mentors and Friends

Mentor alum and anthology committee member Dr. Nan Bauer-Maglin has announced the upcoming release of her latest book, Gray Love: Dating and New Relationships After 60.  Anthology committee member Rebecca Lowry Warchut is releasing her debut YA novel Catastrophe Theory. The book grapples with themes of illness and the complications of familial love. 

Wed. 7/20, 2:30-5 PM ET

Summer Statement Series

Getting Personal with HarperCollins

Craft Your College Application Essay

Don’t miss this opportunity to work on writing while enjoying an intergenerational gathering of insight, networking, and wisdom with HarperCollins!

Free, virtual, and open to young women and gender expansive youth