Me and the brilliant Lulu; sometimes I forget who is mentoring who.
Mentoring pairs attend monthly genre and media-based workshops, which also feature craft and industry speakers. There, mentees draft original pieces and build their portfolios throughout the year. Workshops are a jumping off point for the weekly pair sessions where mentors guide mentees through the process of editing and polishing drafts into final products for submission to contests, and for publication and presentation, including in Girls Write Now’s annual anthologies, and our popular reading & multimedia series, CHAPTERS & QWERTY.
Mentees also participate in Girls Write Now’s Writing Works programming, unique and personalized professional development, strengthening their writing and communication skills, and opening doors, on the pathway to college and career.