Mission Statement
Girls Write Nashville is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community building for female-identifying teen artists in Nashville, TN. We are an educational program aligned with the standards of Creative Youth Development (CYD) and Culturally Responsive Education (CRE). We envision the future of music education based as modernized, inclusive, working to close the gender gap and informed by music as a participatory-based culture in order to reap the full community building value of the arts.
In a GWN Writers Guild, participants learn to write and record original music in a supportive community of peers led by a trauma-informed teaching artist over the course of a 20 week semester. Through a partnership with MNPS’s Community Achieves, Guilds take place on-site at several Title I MNPS as well as at our Metro Center facility.
Nashville’s only music program founded specifically on the value of inclusion, we actively solve for accessibility barriers believing that when we do, our student community will accurately reflect Nashville’s true diversity and work to create a safe and inclusive path to cultural participation within our city’s music scene.