F156. “Once, I Was That Girl”: Creative Writing Pedagogy for Tween and Teen Girls

Room 505, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Friday, April 1, 2016
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

“Empowering girls” has become a catchphrase that can be relatively meaningless. Yet, single-sex environments have been proven to be productive spaces in which creativity is nurtured and young writers can grow. Four educators and writers who have founded organizations that serve tween and teen girls speak to the practical challenges and the reverberations of success they have witnessed while mentoring girls, as well as the inspiration this has brought to their own creative work.


Participants

Moderator:

Elline Lipkin is the author of The Errant Thread, selected by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award, and Girls' Studies, a survey of contemporary girlhood in America. A research scholar with UCLA's Center for the Study of Women, she also teaches poetry for Writing Workshops Los Angeles.

Allison Deegan, EdD, is associate director of WriteGirl (www.WriteGirl.org), a Los Angeles-based creative writing and mentoring program for teen girls. She has deep expertise in how writers develop confidence in their creative abilities, and has been an editor of WriteGirl's 12 award-winning books.

Nancy Gruver is founder of New Moon Girls, author of How to Say It® to Girls, and a national leader in media creation to develop girls’ full potential. She pioneered collaboration by girls and adults as an innovative counterbalance to societal pressures that cause girls to abandon their dreams.

Margaret Stohl is the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures Novels, the Dangerous Creatures Novels, the Icons Novels, and the author of Black Widow: Forever Red. She is a former video game designer and the cofounder of the YALLFEST and YALLWEST teen book festivals.

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