{"id":749,"date":"2008-04-15T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2008-04-15T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T08:47:00","slug":"event-girls-write-now-spring-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/15\/event-girls-write-now-spring-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Girls Write Now Spring Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SARhDWj3VbI\/AAAAAAAABQs\/meqTch4AG90\/s1600-h\/14writers.600.2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SARhDWj3VbI\/AAAAAAAABQs\/meqTch4AG90\/s200\/14writers.600.2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On June 8, the new Tribeca Barnes &amp; Noble will become a teen literary hotspot as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlswritenow.org\">Girls Write Now<\/a> &#8211; which, I kvell, is featured prominently in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/14\/nyregion\/14writers.html?_r=2&amp;ref=nyregion&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">yesterday&#8217;s<span style=\"font-style:italic\"> New York Times<\/span><\/a> &#8211; takes it over.  Celebrity host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/amandadiva\">Amanda Diva<\/a> (Def Poetry Jam, HipHopNation, MTV2, Floetry), will turn the downtown bookstore into a showcase for a collection of powerful new poems, stories and essays that reflect an electrifying community of girl writers spanning often hard-and-fast lines of race, age, economics and geography in NYC.  For those not yet familiar with GWN, they (we! I&#8217;m on the Advisory Board) are New York City&#8217;s premier mentoring and creative writing organization for teen girls.<\/p>\n<p>A just quick note on Amanda Diva: talk about crossover.  This accomplished poet, journalist, singer, rapper, and radio &amp; television personality is also a scholar, with a Master&#8217;s degree in African-American Studies.  For more, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DivaSpeakTV.blogspot.com\">DivaSpeakTV.blogspot.com <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Youtube.com\/ImAmandaDiva\">Youtube.com\/ImAmandaDiva<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n<p>June 8<br \/>4-6PM<br \/>Barnes and Noble<br \/>97 Warren Street, NYC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 8, the new Tribeca Barnes &amp; Noble will become a teen literary hotspot as Girls Write Now &#8211; which, I kvell, is featured prominently in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times &#8211; takes it over. Celebrity host Amanda Diva (Def Poetry Jam, HipHopNation, MTV2, Floetry), will turn the downtown bookstore into a showcase for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21328,21395,21941],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-girls","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}