our story (so far)
A notebook is magic.
The Girls League of Writers (GLOW) exists to bring together girls who enjoy writing and want to grow as storytellers and communicators.
Because we believe the world gets a little better every time a girl decides her ideas are worth sharing with the world.
Through the club, members will:
- 01Strengthen writing and storytelling skills
- 02Become more confident communicators
- 03Encourage creativity and imagination
- 04Support and celebrate female voices and perspectives in writing
- 05Have fun writing together
K–12
All ages welcome
From first-graders writing their first sentence to seniors drafting their college essay — every level belongs here.
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Every entry published
Submit to our prompt of the month and your work goes up. No gatekeeping, no rejection pile.
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Tight-knit community
One circle of girls who read each other's work, cheer each other on, and write braver because of it.
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AI-written entries
Every word is hers. We're here to grow real voices, not generated ones.
what girls bring to the page
Sharper details. Deeper feeling. Whole new worlds.
Mary Shelley invented science fiction at 18. Toni Morrison rewrote what an American sentence could do. Malala published her first dispatch at 11. Girls have always been some of literature's most original voices — GLOW exists to make sure the next one has a place to start, a circle to share with, and a reason to keep going.
what we believe
Every girl is already a writer.
Creativity is a skill.
It's built one sentence at a time. We give girls the reps.
Imagination is fuel.
Silly, strange, surreal — the wildest ideas often make the truest stories.
Voice is power.
Learning to write what you mean is learning to be heard.
why this matters
Girls aren't read, reviewed, or believed at the same rate as boys.
The playing field still isn't a level one. We dug into the research — VIDA's byline counts, the Women's Media Center's news audits, the Goldberg studies on author-name bias — so you can see exactly what GLOW is writing against.
the founder
Meet Eloise.
GLOW was started by Eloise, a 5th-grade writer from Austin, Texas. A voracious reader since she could hold a book, she fell for writing the way she'd fallen for reading — one notebook, one borrowed voice, one wild idea at a time. In 4th grade she started pulling friends into the habit: shared stories at recess, first-line prompts traded like secrets, a quiet little circle that kept growing.
By 5th grade she'd outgrown recess and decided what her school — and other girls everywhere — actually needed was a real club: a space designed for girls to write, share, and be read.
That club is GLOW. Built by a girl writer, for girl writers — with the conviction that the next great American voice is probably already in a notebook somewhere, waiting for someone to ask to read it.
Share your perspective.
This month's prompt is open. Send us your story — we publish every entry.