Girls Write Now (GNW) mentors underserved young women to find their voices through the power of writing and community. Founded in 1998, GWN is New York’s first and only writing and mentoring organization for girls, and one of the nation’s top after school programs as distinguished twice by the White House and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. GWN has been featured by The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, and the Wall Street Journal. GWN was recognized by the Nonprofit Excellence Awards as one of New York’s top ten nonprofits twice and by NBCUniversal Foundation’s 21st Century Solutions for social innovation. Our teens have performed their original work at Lincoln Center and the United Nations, published in Newsweek, ELLE India and our award-wining anthology, and earned hundreds of prestigious Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

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