Young Women Writing for (a) Change is a creative writing program for girls and teen-aged women founded in 1996 by Mary Pierce Brosmer as an expansion of her existing Women Writing for (a) Change school in order to form a supportive and encouraging community for girls to write and be heard. Goals are to help girls

• enhance self-esteem
• build skills in creative self-expression
• learn to receive and give honest support and encouragement,
• develop skills in building and keeping community
• seek and recognize role models who inspire creative life choices.

All YWWf(a)C programs are designed to help strengthen girls' authentic voices, their ability to "speak out" through writing and in direct interaction, and their faith in their own creative intelligence.

What We Will Do
Create a supportive community of writers
Write together and on our own
Share our writing and listen to others
Explore other modes of artistic expression
Read and discuss stories, articles and poems

Winter/Spring
Session One Teens Grades 8-12
Sundays, January 20-March 9
1-4pm Tuition: $250

Session Two Girls Grades 4-7
Saturdays, February 16-March 22
1-4pm Tuition: $215

Spring Workshop
Mothers and Daughters Writing Together
Saturday, May 10 - 1:00 - 4:00 pm - $50 per participant

Join us for an afternoon of writing and sharing and talk about the mothers and daughters in ourselves, as well as the ones in our lives. Bring your mother, grandmother, aunt, your daughter, granddaughter, niece, your mother-figure, yolur daughter-friend.

Call 791-4057 to register - or online with a credit card.

Summer

Full Day Programs
Session Three Girls Entering Grades 4-7
Monday June 9-Friday June 13
9:00am-4:00pm Tuition: $315

Session Four Teens Entering Grades 8-10
Monday June 16-Friday June 20
9:00am-4:00pm Tuition: $315

Session Five Young Women Entering Grades 11-College Freshman
Monday July 7-Friday July 11
9:00am-4:00pm Tuition: $315

Half Day Programs
Session Six Girls entering Grades 4-7
Monday June 23-Friday June 27
9:00am-12:30pm Tuition: $225

Session Seven Teens Entering Grades 8-10
Monday June 23-Friday June 27
1:30 pm-5pm Tuition: $225

Fall
Session Eight Teens Grades 8-12
Sundays, September 28-November 16
1-4pm Tuition: $250

Session Nine Girls Grades 4-7
Saturdays, October 11-November 15
1-4pm Tuition: $215

To register for any of our 2008 On-Site programs, please click here.

To download our brochure of classes with registration form, please click here (PDF file).

Young Women Writing for (a) Change also offers a Leadership Academy for teens who are interested in learning about the potential that writing has for effecting positive change - within themselves and within society.
For more information on the Young Women's Feminist Leadership Academy please click here

Young Women Writing for (a) Change takes programs to local schools, community centers and organizations. For more information on how to bring these programs to you please click here