How WriteGirl helps teens find their creative voice
A rainy afternoon is perfectly conducive to a poetry reading. Teens step to the stage to share their words and their hearts at a literary event hosted by WriteGirl held at the Downey City Library in California. The girls read short poems, list poems, angry poems, sad poems, and nature poems. Sansa, 15, shares “Venice Beach” – the first poem she ever wrote. “The ocean knows nothing lasts forever,” she reads, leaving goose bumps across the room.
Sansa lives in Marina del Rey and calls Draco Malfoy fan fiction her first writing experience. She says she’s been writing for eight years and has been working on her own trilogy for the past four. Suffering writer’s block,
