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At WriteGirl, we match girls and gender-expansive youth with women and gender-expansive writers who mentor them in creative writing. Every year, we produce dozens of workshops, panel discussions and special events to help teens get creative, get through high school and get to college! Through one-on-one mentoring and monthly creative writing workshops, teens are given techniques, insights and hot

topics for great writing in all genres from professional writers. Workshops and mentoring sessions explore poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, songwriting, journalism, screenwriting, playwriting, persuasive writing, journal writing, editing and more.

A BIG thank you to all our incredible singer-songwriters 🎶🎤🎸Some parting wisdom from our Executive Director Keren: “Ever...
05/03/2026

A BIG thank you to all our incredible singer-songwriters 🎶🎤🎸

Some parting wisdom from our Executive Director Keren: “Every day, your life is full of songwriting material. Whatever your emotion, write some short statements about it, as you are feeling it. Then later, when you are wondering what to write a song about, you can dive back into those moments, those stories, and use them to fuel your songs.”

Huge thank you to our sponsors SKECHERS, ASCAP Foundation, Inspired Nation and Dr. Hauschka!

05/03/2026

Watch Nina Woodford and Laurie Geltman bring to life original songs written by our Writegirl teens 🎵

These performances are just a glimpse of the incredible talent we witnessed today!

Our teens working hard with our special guest songwriters Some songwriting advice from Laurie Geltman: “Don’t be tempt...
05/02/2026

Our teens working hard with our special guest songwriters

Some songwriting advice from Laurie Geltman: “Don’t be tempted to use AI; you have your whole life to find your own voice and AI will keep you from discovering who that is, and personally, figuring out the “puzzle” that a song is is the most satisfying and thrilling part of making it.”

Stay tuned for more 🎹

Acclaimed songwriters Michelle Lewis and Lauren Christy discuss 3 tips for writing lyrics: 🔹use your notes app🔹take voic...
05/02/2026

Acclaimed songwriters Michelle Lewis and Lauren Christy discuss 3 tips for writing lyrics:
🔹use your notes app
🔹take voice memos
🔹use tools like RhymeZone

Fun fact: Lauren wrote Avril Lavigne’s hit song “Complicated” 🎸

Follow along for more from our Songwriting Workshop

Join us for a WriteGirl poetry reading at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend! WriteGirl alums will be ...
04/15/2026

Join us for a WriteGirl poetry reading at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend! WriteGirl alums will be performing this Sunday, April 19, 2026 at 12:30pm on the Poetry Stage. We hope you can join us to support them at this FREE community event! This special WriteGirl reading will celebrate our 25th anniversary year!

Actor Sandy Green will be emcee, and Suzanne Lummis will be joining us as a special guest poet!

Learn more at latimes.com/fob

WriteGirl alum & California Youth Poet Laureate Summer Hamzeh expands on why metaphor and image is so important to poetr...
04/11/2026

WriteGirl alum & California Youth Poet Laureate Summer Hamzeh expands on why metaphor and image is so important to poetry and its effect on an audience:

“Hope is unstoppable, hope is persistent. But that doesn’t really strike your audience as much as when you put it into these images… when I write, I like to think I’m writing a picture. I’m writing a painting. Those visuals really stick with people.”

Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang is a poet, actress, interdisciplinary scholar, & Professor of English at the University of Hartfo...
04/11/2026

Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang is a poet, actress, interdisciplinary scholar, & Professor of English at the University of Hartford. She discusses the importance of movement in poetry, and how it’s sometimes a necessary writing tool:

“When I am writing poems that have to do with youth, that have to do with hope… there has to be movement. Hope has to be a verb. It’s something you do. You can’t hope without action.”

SofĂŤa Aguilar, poet & WriteGirl teaching artist, shares a piece of work with our teens, providing a stunning example of ...
04/11/2026

SofĂŤa Aguilar, poet & WriteGirl teaching artist, shares a piece of work with our teens, providing a stunning example of sensory and transportive detail:

“I am in New York with my mother, and choose to consume what reminds me most of home.

They say you can be transported like Dorothy, trade her red slipper for a slice of cucumber, a cube of melon slathered in chamoy and tajin.”

WriteGirl Executive Director@Keren Taylor introduces our mentees to the theme of Identity for today’s poetry workshop an...
04/11/2026

WriteGirl Executive Director@Keren Taylor introduces our mentees to the theme of Identity for today’s poetry workshop and emphasizes just how important identity is to poetry: “What poetry really thrives on is when we hear who you are, what you care about, what makes you tick. When you write from a point of view of identity, there is no chance that AI can write it like you can.”

At WriteGirl we believe in the unique power of writing to inspire, unite, enlighten, spark change and lift us up.In cele...
04/02/2026

At WriteGirl we believe in the unique power of writing to inspire, unite, enlighten, spark change and lift us up.

In celebration of National Poetry Month and also WriteGirl’s 25th Anniversary, we've assembled a team of WriteGirl alums who are some of the top youth poets in Los Angeles to write poems of hope just for you during these challenging times.

Now through April 15th, make a donation to WriteGirl and we’ll send a hope-filled poem straight to your inbox. Couldn't your inbox use some good vibes? Or donate in honor of someone who could use a boost and we'll send the poem to them.

Donate today at https://www.writegirl.org/donate.

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