Women Who Write Helping Girls Who Want To

The New York Times has a cool feature today about this great nonprofit program that, as J. Courtney Sullivan puts, it "pairs high school girls from disadvantaged backgrounds who want to be writers with women who are authors, journalists, playwrights, poets and editors. The group produces an anthology of student writing each spring, and puts on several public readings."

Called Girls Write Now, it's about a decade old, but it's the first I've heard of it. Probably because it's a New York thing, oui? If you've heard of anything at all similar here -- outside of 826LA, with which I'm extremely familiar, having been a founding volunteer at 826Valencia in San Franciso -- let me know!