Write Out Loud: September

Lizzie Finn is a screenwriter. She’s written more than a dozen screenplays and teleplays, including the “Communication Episode” of Discovery TV’s Emmy-winning series Greatest Inventions with Bill Nye. As a blogger, she was featured in The New York Times and The Star-Ledger for sharing her stories on modern motherhood. She’s written countless blog posts, essays, columns, and articles online and for publication (TV Squad, Literary Mama, The Imperfect Parent, Absolute Write, The Mighty, Medium, and Pregnancy Magazine). Lizzie has her BA in Communication from Rutgers College and Certificate in Film, Video and Broadcasting from New York University. She is a Certified Gateless Writing Teacher. Lizzie believes that learning, self-discovery, and healing are best served when we honor our truest, most joyful selves through creative self-expression, mindfulness, and play. Lizzie is on Medium at https://medium.com/@lizziefinn23.

Lisa Hartsgrove is program coordinator & writing instructor for Project Write Now. She is also program manager for PWN Teen, the teen division of Project Write Now. She has an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College and a B.A. in English from Montclair State University. Lisa encourages writers to be confident in their work, believing that we all have a story to tell and we all have the right to be heard. She loves storytelling in all forms, including visual art. Lisa has completed a YA novel-in-verse that she hopes to someday publish. She has had poetry and short stories published in various literary magazines. You can read more about her and her publications on her website, lisahartsgrove.com.

Here’s what some of our writers are saying…

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