Apply your professional skills, explore your personal passions, and help a teen find their creative voice! We are seeking women AND men writers to mentor teens during the daytime. All you need are tenacious communication skills, a love of writing, and the willingness to show up. 

Happy New Year from WriteGirl! For me, the end of the year often feels like that moment you finish a chapter in a great book. There is so much to sit back and think about: What has changed? What will happen next?

In 2016, WriteGirl will help over 400 underserved girls (and some teen boys!) develop the confidence and creative skills they need to propel them into academic, personal and professional success.

How to you find the right gift for a teenage girl? We have a LONG list of things that will help a girl for her entire life!

We asked our girls and women writers to write some advice for our community on how to enjoy December and get through the holidays. You’ll notice some repeated themes in their writing…and some opposing statements also! We always say, “Never underestimate the power of a girl and her pen,” and our girls truly embody that motto.

Today is Giving Tuesday, a day to give the holiday shopping a rest and donate to a charity in need. Donate to WriteGirl today and help us serve a record number of girls from underserved communities in 2016.

As we begin our 15th anniversary season, we have a record number of girls and an unprecedented number of volunteers to mentor them! But as our program expands, so do our financial needs. As we enter this season of giving, we look to our friends and supporters to help sustain WriteGirl.

Read our November newsletter!

WriteGirl has helped thousands of young women write their way to brilliant futures. They are all over the world. We’d like to introduce you to a few.

In our latest newsletter, we share three stories of a WriteGirl alum, now in her sophomore year of college, as well as a long-time WriteGirl alum now working as a political reporter, and a 13 year-old mentee just starting her WriteGirl journey ...

For our 15th anniversary season, we're making it our goal to match every girl with her own mentor.

We have more than 40 girls on a waiting list for a mentor. This means we need to train more volunteers than ever before. Please help us spread the word!

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Art inspires poetry + an upcoming red carpet event! Our February Newsletter is out. Read on!

What does she want?

What does she need?

Despite what she tells you, it’s not a hot new pair of jeans or an even flatter cellphone.  

Those things are great, but they will only last a few years at best.

We have a list of things that will help a girl for her entire life…

We blew the roof off the Music Center at the WriteGirl Songwriting Workshop a couple of weeks ago. Every teen girl – all 70 of them ­– was paired for the day with a woman writer. Twenty singer/songwriters joined us, to help coach our girls in writing song lyrics and offer insights into their creative processes. We listened to songs and analyzed their structure. We danced. We wrote about things we are passionate about.

VOTE for WriteGirlAnyone/anywhere can vote to help WriteGirl!

VOLUNTEER with WriteGirl Are you a woman writer in Los Angeles? WriteGirl is seeking women writers for our 14th year of creative writing workshops and mentoring for teen girls. 

Get inspired with super-creative writing prompts from WriteGirl teen writers!

Donate to the WriteGirl GET INSPIRED campaign to receive writing prompts from our teen girls, award-winning WriteGirl anthologies, and more!

UPDATE: The GET INSPIRED campaign has ended. Thank you to all who donated! 

• Skylight Books Public Reading - Saturday, February 15, 2014, 4pm - 5pm 

• It's Here! WriteGirl Publishes 12th Anthology

• YOU ARE HERE Launches at Central Library

• Teen Girls' Lyrics Come to Life in Song

• Where Am I? A Writing Experiment