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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Upcoming Events
Barnes & Noble
Book Fair and Reading!
 May 25 to May 31, 2008
The Grove at the Farmers Market
189 Grove Drive, LA, CA 90036
This store is donating a percentage of net sales for one week to WriteGirl.
Need a gift? Are there books you want to buy? Your purchases help support WriteGirl. Mention our Book Fair ID # 282640
Can’t come in? Phone the store with your order:(323) 323-525-0270 Free Shipping!
Sunday, May 25th 2pm to 3pm
WriteGirl! Reading @ Barnes & Noble
Come into the store and hear our girls perform their work in their bold, original voices.
Download the Book Fair voucher.
WriteGirl! Season End Celebration
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Writers Guild Theater
135 South Doheny Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Join us to hear our girls and celebrity guests read from our new anthology! Fabulous silent auction, light lunch, and inspiring performances!
Tickets: $20.00
Click here for tickets.
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Get WriteGirl's brand new anthology: LINES OF VELOCITY: Words That Move From WriteGirl.
Makes a great gift!
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WriteGirl is pleased to announce our
2008 Bold Ink Award Honorees
Diablo Cody (Juno)
Robin Swicord (Memoirs of a Geisha, Jane Austen Book Club)
Liz Craft and Sara Fain (Women's Murder Club, The Shield)
Carol Muske-Dukes (Channeling Mark Twain, Sparrow)
Mona Simpson (Anywhere But Here, Off Keck Road)
Callie Khourie (Thelma & Louise, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)
Patt Morrison(LA Times columnist, 6 time Emmy and Golden Mike winner)
WriteGirl created the Bold Ink Awards to honor the voices of fearless
women writers.
Last year's honorees were:
Carol Flint (ER/West Wing), Janet Fitch (White Oleander),
Poet Suzanne Lummis (In Danger), Sandra Tsing Loh (NPR)
and Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under).
These women are an inspiration to all writers.
We are thrilled to honor them with our WriteGirl Bold Ink Award!
View photos from this year's 2008 Bold Ink Awards
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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.
Find out
if this is for you ›
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Help WriteGirl Grow!
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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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WriteGirl News
Screenwriter Diablo Cody Honored at Bold Ink Awards
Keren Taylor, WriteGirl's Executive Director, with Diablo Cody, Oscar-winning screenwriter for "Juno",
at the Bold Ink Awards.
Buy WriteGirl Merchandise!
 T-shirts,
journals, hats, mugs, and more! Makes a great gift for
the holidays! Check out our new store at CafePress!
Buy
WriteGirl Publications!
WriteGirl's sixth anthology,
Lines of Velocity, is filled with more than 250 pages of poetry, essays, lyrics and stories from WriteGirl members.
Read more about Lines of Velocity.
OUR GIRLS GO TO COLLEGE
WriteGirl is happy to announce that thirteen of our
girls will start college in the fall of 2006. We are
proud to continue our success rate of sending 100% of
our seniors to college!
 Last
year 16 WriteGirls went off
to college, many as the first in their families to do
so. 100 percent of our graduating girls enroll in college
after participation in WriteGirl. We’re
very proud.
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