GIRLS WRITE NOW (GWN): matches talented, underserved girls from public high schools with successful women professional writers as their personal mentors, providing guidance, support, and opportunities for the girls to develop their creative, independent voices, explore careers in professional writing, and learn how to make healthy school, career, and life choices. Distinguished by the White House and the President's Committee on the Arts & the Humanities as one of the nation's top after school arts and culture programs, Girls Write Now is the first organization in the United States with a writing/mentoring model exclusively for girls.