On Saturday, March 28th, WriteGirl mentees, volunteers and staff gathered in their living rooms, bedrooms and anywhere with good natural light for WriteGirl's first online workshop! We had 241 participants, our largest WriteGirl workshop EVER! This fully digital Journalism workshop spotlighted the importance of truth in media during this uncertain time, and featured fun writing activities like preparing an interview for a big story on sheepherding. Soapbox, a WriteGirl tradition, proved to be the highlight of the afternoon as girls took center-screen to rant and rave about their new stay-at-home normal. Stay-tuned as WriteGirl continues to provide more digital content to keep inspiring teens from a distance.

“This is not a poetry workshop,” WriteGirl Executive Director Keren Taylor told the room comprised of nearly 100 mentors and 100 teen girls, with notebooks and pens perched on their laps.

“This is a workshop about power,” Taylor continued. “With poetry, you can do anything you want.”

WriteGirl held its 19th Annual Poetry Workshop on Dec. 7th at Otis College of Art & Design in Westchester.

A statue of Batman was looming in the shadows as the elevator doors opened to a dimly lit hallway. Just around the corner was what resembled a spaceship, but what was actually the DC Comics headquarters at the Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank. The large room was swarming with WriteGirl mentees, alums and interns along with DC Comics’ female writers, artists and editors. Colored lights radiated from the ceiling, lighting up the faces of WriteGirl participants, as the first ever WriteGirl Graphic Novel Workshop at DC Comics commenced.

You could hear a pen drop as the girls filled the school library. It was the first day of the Season 18 WriteGirl workshop at Ramona Opportunity High School, December 12, 2018. Although it was the third year WriteGirl has hosted its workshop at the school, many of the girls were new to WriteGirl and unsure of what to expect.

There was an alien, asking a heartbroken guy about the meaning of love. A girl, confronting her mother in a department store changing room. A group of AV Club nerds, nervously welcoming a new girl into the fold. A psychopath, reaching out for one last chance. We learned about these characters’ wants, needs and foibles. We laughed. We were moved. And yes, maybe a few of us shed a tear. 

“Songs happen when words alone are not enough,” WriteGirl Executive Director Keren Taylor told an audience of nearly 200 girls and women writers at the 18th Annual WriteGirl Songwriting Workshop. 

Held at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens on Feb. 23, 2019, WriteGirl teens and their mentors began the day by walking through the vibrant gardens and using the sights, smells and sounds to spark their creativity.

Who says poetry has to be stuffy? That’s what Workshop Director Kirsten Giles asked a roomful of WriteGirl mentees and mentors at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens on Jan. 26, 2019. She was kicking off WriteGirl’s annual Poetry Workshop, a day that proved to be inspiring, educational and fun… and the opposite of stuffy!

On December 2nd, a blue-skied and bracingly chilly Sunday, WriteGirl mentors and mentees traveled from all over LA to participate in the 2018 Fiction Writing Workshop at the Autry Museum of the American West.

Guided by WriteGirl mentors and acclaimed women singer-songwriters, WriteGirl teens learned the tenets of songwriting and gained inspiration for their lyrics in the gardens and art galleries of The Huntington on March 3, 2018.