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Voices Inside: Playwrights Wanted

by Karen Tortora-Lee on November 8, 2011

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The greatest gift you could give a playwright is time.  Endless time to work and re-work the kinks out of a plot, time to make the characters feel more real, time to make the situations ring more true.  Time to write and re-write until all you are has been put on that page and there’s nothing left to do but have it read by someone else and sit back, watching as it comes to life.

Men in Northpoint Training Center have a lot of time.  And they have no shortage of ideas, given the circumstances of their lives.  What these men need in order to be playwrights is an example.  A leader.  A teacher.

Here’s where you come in.   But wait … maybe I should keep telling their story so you understand what exactly is going on here.

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You Can Help Girls Write Now

by Karen Tortora-Lee on March 23, 2010

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Do you want to share your craft and work one-to-one with an aspiring teen writer?
Apply to be a Volunteer Writing Mentor today!

Press Release from Girls Write Now:

Girls Write Now is a community of professional women writers—educators, editors, poets, novelists, playwrights, journalists, literary agents, publishers, and more—on a mission. Since 1998 we’ve provided guidance, support, and opportunities for New York City’s underserved or at-risk high school girls, enabling them to develop their creative, independent voices, explore careers in professional writing, and learn how to make healthy school, career, and life choices.

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