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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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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PlayWriteGirl Gets Rave Reviews!
The benefit event on May 3rd at the Pasadena Playhouse was a hit! Our girls wrote pieces during the workshop; celebrated actors brought them to life onstage! Our girls above opened the show. Stay tuned for a photo gallery of this amazing night! Proceeds benefit the WriteGirl program in Pasadena. Never too late to donate! Click here.
AWARDS FOR WRITEGIRL PUBLICATIONS
2009 First Place, Anthologies, National Indie Excellence Awards: Listen to Me
2009 Silver Medalist, Independent Publisher Awards: Listen to Me
2009 Second Place, Teenage, San Francisco Book Festival: Listen to Me
2009 Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Listen to Me
2009 Finalist, ForeWord Magazine: Listen to Me
2008 1st Place Teenage, London Book Awards: Lines of Velocity
2008 Grand Prize Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Lines of Velocity
2008 Best Book Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA News: Lines of Velocity
2008 Silver Medalist, Independent Publisher Awards: Lines of Velocity
2008 Finalist, ForeWord Magazine: Lines of Velocity
2008 Honorable Mention, New York Festival of Books Awards: Lines of Velocity
2007 Finalist, ForeWord Magazine: Untangled
2007 Honorable Mention, London Book Festival: Untangled
2006 Best Book Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA News: Untangled
2006 Writers Notes Magazine Book Award Winner: Nothing Held Back
2006 Honorable Mention, Independent Publisher Awards: Nothing Held Back
2005 Finalist, Independent Publisher Awards: Pieces of Me
2005 Finalist, ForeWord Magazine: Bold Ink
PRAISE FOR WRITEGIRL PUBLICATIONS
The short prose and verse selections are by turns raw, crackling with energy, naďve, 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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"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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Bold Ink Awards at Fox Studios was blockbuster!
More than 350 guests gathered at 20th Century Fox Studios for WriteGirl's third annual Bold Ink Awards that celebrated eight fearless women writers. The honorees, pictured left to right, are: Best-selling novelist & screenwriter, Gigi Levangie Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario Academy Award nominated screenwriter Naomi Foner; Grammy-winning songwriter, Diane Warren WriteGirl Executive Director, Keren Taylor; screenwriter/director Gina Prince Bythewood (The acclaimed poet, Wanda Coleman Emmy nominated television writer, Jennifer Crittenden (Not pictured: Bold Ink honoree, novelist, Carolyn See).
Click here for a Bold Ink Awards photo gallery
The WriteGirl Season End Celebration at the Writers Guild of America Theater
in Beverly Hills was a great success.
Click here for event photos
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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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