The WriteGirl Bold Futures Program offers an array of learning experiences. Our interns work in groups, pairs and one-on-one, and through these experiences we see natural leadership abilities emerge and grow. 

On April 20th and 21st, 2013, WriteGirl participated in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the USC campus. At the WriteGirl booth, volunteers shared information about our program, sold anthologies, and encouraged visitors to participate in a creative writing activity with prompts like, "What do you do when there's a power outage?" and "Describe the scent of a place you remember from long ago." It was the only booth with brightly colored index cards hanging from strings all over, covered in creative writing.

A beautiful bookstore in Los Feliz has become a part of WriteGirl tradition. On March 23rd, WriteGirl teens shared creative pieces from "No Character Limit: Truth & Fiction from WriteGirl,” at an independent bookstore called Skylight Books.

Every once in while a volunteer comes along who says yes, and keeps saying yes. Yes to one-on-one mentoring. Yes to planning special events. Yes to appearing in front of the entire membership in a play written just hours before by one of our girls.

The No Character Limit book launch and reading at the Mark Taper Auditorium was quite noteworthy. Many amazing teenage girls shared their wonderful poems and short stories. Many parents even joined in to experience the wonders of a pencil put to paper.

January is National Mentoring Month, and to celebrate the work that our incredible volunteers do, we wanted to shine a light on some of the incredible stories of inspiration and guidance afforded our teens by the women who are the driving force of our organization.

WriteGirl's Bold Futures Program, which provides college support and internship opportunities for WriteGirl teens, has helped high school seniors submit over 100 college applications thus far this year, and their efforts are beginning to come to fruition.  They've already received acceptance letters from Reed College, Oberlin College, Bucknell University, Cal State Channel Islands and California College of the Arts, just to name a few.

Drawing on the tradition of writers gathering in cafes, WriteGirl created a lively bistro setting, complete with delicious pastries donated by Porto's Bakery, for girls and their mentors to choose and refine their pieces for the upcoming 13th annual WriteGirl anthology, No Character Limit.

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WriteGirl was named the 2010-2011 California Nonprofit of the Year by Governor Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver.