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Welcome to WriteGirl
WriteGirl is a nonprofit organization
for high school girls centered on the craft of creative writing
and empowerment through self-expression. Through one-on-one
mentoring and monthly workshops, girls are given techniques,
insights and hot tips for great writing in all genres from
professional women writers.
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WriteGirl Named California Nonprofit of Year!
 Executive Director Keren Taylor accepted The Governor and First Lady’s Medal for Service which recognizes WriteGirl as a nonprofit whose volunteerism has had a tangible impact on the community, region and the state of California. This high-profile award is a wonderful public acknowledgment for the hundreds of professional women writers who so generously volunteer their time, expertise and heart to our WriteGirl teens.
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR SEASON 10!
WOMEN WRITERS WANTED!
 YOU LOVE TO WRITE – YOU’LL LOVE WRITEGIRL
And WriteGirl teens will love you! We’re looking for mentors and volunteers for our 10th season of creative writing workshops and mentoring for teen girls. WriteGirl welcomes all women of diverse professional backgrounds to join our energetic community of writers.
Apply your professional skills, enrich a young woman’s life – and let her enrich yours!
Click here to Join us and download an application!
 West Hollywood Book Fair
Sunday, September 26th
Visit the WriteGirl Booth
and hear our teens read
their original work!
Teen Stage 2:00 pm -2:30 pm
647 N. San Vincente Boulevard
10:00 am – 6:00 pm * Free admission
Click here for information
SEASON-END CELEBRATION HONORS EMERGING AUTHORS!
More than 400 guests gathered at the Writers Guild of America Theater in Beverly Hills on June 26th, 2010 to celebrate the end of Write Girl’s ninth season. The event previewed our new anthology, Beyond Words: The Creative Voices of WriteGirl, an eclectic collection of the members’ writing throughout the season (October-June). Our girls read their original work onstage and were thrilled to have special guests Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Pamela Hayden (The Simpsons) and Robin Weigert (Deadwood) bring their words to life alongside them. Beyond Words celebrates the voices of teens from more than 60 different Los Angeles high schools, and women writers from top newspapers, publishers and entertainment companies. Writing advice and an entire chapter of writing experiments will help you develop and share your own bold voice. (release date January 2011)
Click here to Join us and download an application!
Award-winning WriteGirl Books Make Great Gifts!
 Each one is a compendium of stories, poems, essays, rants and scenes from members and includes writing activities to jumpstart your creativity.
WriteGirl anthologies have won a total of 26 book awards including:
  Best Book: USA Books News
· Grand Prize Winner Next Generation Indie Book Awards
· 1st Place, London Book Festival
· 1st Place, National Indie Book Awards
· IPPY Silver Medal
· Forward Magazine Finalist
· 1st Place, Los Angeles Book Festival, Non-Fiction
· Winner. International Book Festival
 Shop Online & Donate to WriteGirl
Online shopping avoids the stress of in-store crowds. An easy way to help WriteGirl is to use iGive, a large collection of online stores with a wide variety of gift ideas. You don’t have to buy; just searching gives WriteGirl a donation.
Joining is free. Click here to sign up.
Shop at Ralph’s and Support WriteGirl! 
If you enroll your Ralph's Rewards card in their Community Program, WriteGirl gets a donation. If you don't have a card, go to any Ralph's and get an instant number.
Here's how to enroll your Rewards Card:
- Log on to www.ralphs.com In the upper right corner, Click on the Ralphs Rewards card.
- Log in or create an new account to register your rewards card number
- Scroll down to SERVICES
- Click on COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION -- Scroll down to PARTICIPANT and Click "ENROLL"
- Click 'save changes'
- Search WRITEGIRL- Click the button to select us
That's all there is to it. Ralph's will give a donation on your purchases. Spread the word to your friends. It’s the easiest contribution you can make! Thanks for helping our girls write their way to more positive futures.
SUPPORT THE FUTURE OF WRITEGIRL
We need your financial support to keep WriteGirl thriving. All of our generous funders know that a donation to WriteGirl makes an immediate, measurable and lasting impact on the life of a young girl. Thanks for helping girls write their way to positive futures. Donate today to ensure our 9th season is a great success.
Check out WriteGirl's exciting Season 9 Calendar of Events!
26 Awards for WriteGirl Anthologies!
2010 Winner, New York Book Festival, Teenage: Silhouette
2010 Winner, International Book Awards, Anthologies-Nonfiction: Silhouette
2010 Winner, London Book Festival, Anthologies: Silhouette
2010 1st Place, National Indie Excellence Awards, Anthologies, Silhouette
2010 Finalist, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Anthologies: Silhouette
2009 Winner, Los Angeles Book Festival, Nonfiction: Silhouette
2009 Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA Book News, Anthologies: Silhouette
2009 Silver Medalist, Independent Publisher Book Awards: Listen to Me
2009 1st Place, National Indie Excellence Awards, Anthologies: Listen to Me
2009 2nd Place, San Francisco Book Awards, Teenage: Listen to Me
2009 Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Anthologies: Listen to Me
2009 Runner Up, New York Book Festival, Teenage: Listen to Me
2009 1st Place, London Book Festival, Teenage: Lines of Velocity
2008 1st Place, Grand Prize Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Lines of Velocity
2008 Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA Book News, Anthologies: Lines of Velocity
2008 Silver Medalist, Independent Publisher Book Awards: Lines of Velocity
2008 Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Anthologies: Lines of Velocity
2008 Honorable Mention, New York Festival of Books Awards, Teenage: Lines of Velocity
2008 Honorable Mention, New England Books Festival, Anthologies: Lines of Velocity
2007 Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Anthologies: Untangled
2007 Honorable Mention, London Book Festival, Anthologies: Untangled
2006 Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA Book News, Anthologies: Untangled
2006 Winner, Anthologies, Writers Notes Magazine Book Award: Nothing Held Back
2006 Honorable Mention, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Anthologies: Nothing Held Back
2005 Finalist, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Anthologies: Pieces of Me
2005 Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Anthologies: Bold Ink
PRAISE FOR WRITEGIRL PUBLICATIONS
The short prose and verse selections are by turns raw, crackling with energy, naïve, knowing, and, above all, deeply personal, revealing the inner lives of strong but vulnerable females. WriteGirl’s wonderful, inspirational anthology belongs in every media center, public library, and creative writing class.
VOYA Book Review of “Listen to Me” (Dec 2008)
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How to become
a WriteGirl
Are you a high school girl in Los Angeles?
Are you interested in exploring poetry, songs, screenplays,
fiction and other kinds of creative writing? Would you
like a professional woman writer to mentor you and help
you with your writing?
If
your answers are yes, click here ›
 
Interested in volunteering with
WriteGirl?
WriteGirl welcomes energetic women of diverse ethnic
and professional backgrounds to serve as volunteers
in all areas of WriteGirl.
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WriteGirl works: 100% of our
senior girls enroll in college after participating in
WriteGirl!
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WriteGirl Info Kit
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WriteGirl Clippings
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"What's
right with WriteGirl is that professional women writers are
jumpstarting the muse within teenagers. No vision is beyond
the horizon, no expression suppressed. And the girls' families
get it, too! Community at its finest."
Lauren Deutsch, WriteGirl supporter
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DONATE To WriteGirl
We need your support. How can you help? Click here donate.
 WriteGirl is proud to announce that we’ve been included in a new book called Spirit of Service, a daily guide that explores the many ways we can get involved in service to others. The book provides daily ways to serve in every arena and an interactive website featuring opportunities around the nation. There is a calling for everyone who wants to express compassion to others and themselves. www.spiritofservice365.com
Bold Ink Awards at The GRAMMY FOUNDTION was a hit!
WriteGirl's 2010 Bold Ink Awards celebrated the strong voices of fearless female writers. These women are not only outstanding writers, they are also inspiring role models for the young girls we are mentoring in WriteGirl. We are thrilled to honor them. Pictured left to right: WriteGirl Executive Director, Keren Taylor with honorees Screenwriter/Executive Producer, Elizabeth Sarnoff (Lost); Entrepreneur/Author, Lynda Resnick(Rubies in the Orchard); Novelist Marisa Silver (God of War); Poet, Patricia Seyburn (Hilarity Mechanical Cluster) and Academy Award-nominated Screenwriter/ Director, Nancy Meyers (It’s Complicated).
Click here for a Bold Ink Awards photo gallery
Our Season End Celebration
More than 400 guests gathered at the Writers Guild of America Theater in Beverly Hills to celebrate the end of Write Girl’s eighth season and preview the new anthology, Silhouette: Bold Lines and Voices from WriteGirl. Girls read their original work and were thrilled to have guests Sprague Graden (“24”), Pamela Guest and Peter Facinelli (“Twilight”) also bring their words to life onstage. Silhouette celebrates the voices of teens from more than 60 different Los Angeles high schools, and women writers from top newspapers, publishers and entertainment companies. Writing advice and an entire chapter of writing experiments will help you develop and share your own bold voice.
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journals, hats, mugs, and more! Makes a great gift for
the holidays! Check out our new store at CafePress!
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LISTEN TO ME: Shared Secrets From WriteGirl
Love, pain, relationships, cravings, neighbors, murder, boredom, mysteries, vegetarians and peacocks are just a few of the subjects inside the pages of Listen to Me . Girls and women confess deeply personal stories and perspectives through carefully-crafted as well as spontaneous gems of poetry, fiction, scenes, songs and essays. An entire chapter offers a variety of writing experiments to help you discover and share your own secrets.
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Our Girls Go to College
WriteGirl is happy to announce that 21 of our girls started college in the fall of 2008.
We are
proud to continue our success rate of sending 100% of
our seniors to college!
 Last year 16 WriteGirl teens went off to college, many as the first in their families to do so. 100% of our graduating girls enroll in college after participation in WriteGirl. We’re very proud.
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