It’s WriteGirl Writing Day at @NHMLA! Stop by the WriteGirl table and add a piece of advice to our Tree of Wisdom! Find us over near the Dinosaur Hall!
it’s that time again, y’all! because i wrote + published 144 pieces this year (wipes forehead), here are just 16 of my favorite poems, articles, personal essays, and reviews for my 2022 writing round-up / a thread 🧵✨
Today is #GivingTuesday, and our members are sharing their "unselfies" and "best friendies" with messages about why they give to WriteGirl! #Donate today and help us continue to offer mentoring and workshops to teens around the world: https://t.co/lIm7w8kVvf #GivingTuesday2022
WriteGirl is excited and proud to receive a 2022 Amazon Literary Partnership grant to support creative writing programming for underrepresented teen writers! Read more here: https://t.co/JqAkk0YmSx #AmazonLiteraryPartnership@amazonnews@amazonbooks (photo credit: Nicole Ortega)
It’s our annual star-studded gala! Join us from home for the WriteGirl Bold Ink Awards online Saturday, June 4th! Hear words of inspiration from @TheAmandaGorman, with more guest appearances to be announced. Tix: https://t.co/5OMdhCQbHz #BoldInkAwards
We'd like to give a special thank you to @culture_la for supporting the creation of our new literary journal LINES & BREAKS and today's launch event. We're excited to showcase stories from all over #LosAngeles in our first issue on the theme of My Hometown. #MyLAStory#cultureLA
"this is the place i always return to / the city i hurry down / the town i take to heart / the place i still, will always call home." Thank you to WriteGirl alum Sofía for her wonderful poem made collaboratively with the WriteGirl community at our lit journal launch! #MyLAStory
For 20 years, WriteGirl has been inspiring young writers, connecting mentors & mentees, hosting workshops, publishing anthologies, and so much more! Help us keep growing this #GivingTuesday by donating: https://t.co/lIm7w8BYxf
WriteGirl is honored to be a 2021 #GOProgram grantee, selected by @ecmcgroup employees living and working in our community. Thanks for supporting us as we work to close educational equity gaps.
WriteGirl held a Poetry Workshop this week in partnership with @NatGeo to present a special screening of the episode “Ice Breakers” from the documentary short series: IMPACT featuring women change makers. The series premieres today, June 24 at 10/9c on National Geographic.
We are so thrilled that 12 of the 18 finalists for LA Youth Poet Laureate are WriteGirl teens! Tune in online this Saturday, June 19th at 2 PM (PT) to see the finalists perform! There will also be a Juneteenth performance by poet Roya Marsh. Tune in at https://t.co/EPmRCfhuds
We will be honoring the inspiring screenwriter, TV producer, and author @atticalocke at our Bold Ink Awards! If you haven’t read her NY Times bestseller, Heaven, My Home, go check it out! Tickets at https://t.co/frSmAYwcWS
The WriteGirl Silent Auction is now LIVE! Bid on a #vintage typewriter signed by @tomhanks! Check out all of the unique finds at the WriteGirl Silent Auction, now through June 21: https://t.co/jLCPu05yjo #writing#typewriters#TomHanks
Tickets are on sale NOW for our upcoming WriteGirl Bold Ink Awards, an online event where we will honor Inaugural Poet and WriteGirl alum @TheAmandaGorman, TV writers and authors @atticalocke and Tembi Locke and novelist @GabiMGarcia. Tickets at https://t.co/frSmAYwcWS
Early bird tickets are on sale now through May 31st for the 2021 WriteGirl Bold Ink Awards on June 12th! We're thrilled to be honoring four inspiring women writers for their bold voices: @TheAmandaGorman, @atticalocke, @TembiLocke & @GabiMGarcia. Tickets: https://t.co/frSmAYwcWS
Wow second week atop the NYT best-seller list! So much gratitude as I look back on how I first started performing poetry years ago despite my speech impediment. All I can say is to any young writer, keep writing. Keep going. Your day will come.