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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:37

"Never underestimate the power of a girl and her pen!" WRITEGIRL founder Keren Taylor Speaking Here on Swell!

article image placeholderKeren Taylor / WRITEGIRL
And I think this platform is actually really interesting because it might be a really great place for some of your writers to speak into their writing because we know that that's a great trajectory for writers is to actually read what they've written in a place where people can appreciate it. So I have great ideas and thoughts about that. But this conversation is with you to talk about where you're going with Right Girl right now in terms of momentum

It’s an expensive time for the organization. We’re talking about WRITEGIRL and the future of women and storytelling. https://www.writegirl.org/

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keren taylor
@kerentaylor · 5:00

My reply at midnight

And that's partly why we try to give girls the experience of going through all the different kinds of genres of creative writing because sometimes we don't even know what we're going to be interested in until we have a chance of experiencing it. So we often have girls that come to the program wanting to write poetry, and then they come to the journalism workshop, and before you know it, they've decided that that's going to be their career path
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:39

🌱 Lifecycle: alum as mentors / activism

First of all, I love that we're distinguishing that at this stage of our society, it's so liberating and beautiful. And the soapbox experience where you see somebody having that moment of expression, there's nothing more amazing about it. It's almost like watching physics happen. It's just like the universe is happening all over again. Each time the exploding of elements just pushing out and creating things that are not there to become there. That's what art is all about
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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keren taylor
@kerentaylor · 4:22

Recruiting mentors for WriteGirl

All right. It's after midnight again. So it's a pattern. How do we recruit mentors? So we reach out to writing organizations, the Writer Skill of America Society, idea of children's book authors and illustrators and various other writing groups, a lot of word of mouth and really try to encourage women who are creative writers to apply and also women who maybe are not necessarily published as creative writers but still see themselves as writers
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:16

Your journey ... 🌱

I want to get a little insight into you because there's a lot of people who are probably very curious about your tenacity and your focus over the past 20 years and how you have done that and the sort of the ups and downs of that journey on a personal level, on a personal level. For me, in 2001, I started a nonprofit. I was funded by the state Library. It was called Artists for Literacy
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