CHAPTERS: Girls Write Now Spring Reading Series, February

This spring, Girls Write Now is thrilled to announce CHAPTERS, featuring the work of New York City's best teen writers and the professional women who mentor them, and a dynamic, diverse line-up of special guest authors curated by Maud Newton. CHAPTERS readings will be held at the Center for Fiction (17 East 47th Street bet. 5th Ave. & Madison), from 6:00PM to 8:00PM. Co-sponsored by The Center for Fiction, EILEEN FISHER, American Eagle Outfitters, and glassybaby.

Guest Author:
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Wench

Dolen Perkins-Valdez's fiction and essays have appeared in StoryQuarterly, Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2009, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She splits her time between Washington, D.C. and Seattle. Wench (Amistad, 2010) is her first novel.

Featuring:
Melissa Caban, "Cadena Perpetua/Life Sentence"
Ximena Castillo, "Normal"
Rachel Garcia, "The Yellow Dress"
Marjorie Hopkins & Léna Roy, "The How-To Guide for Inhabiting Two-Legged Animals"
Erika Marte & Maura Kutner, "A Friendship Recipe"
Ariana Nicoletta, "Falcon's View"
Anna Poon & Nancy Mercado, "The Mysterious & Intriguing People in the Starbucks on the Corner of 18th Avenue & 65th Street"
Ashley Richmond, "Dreams"
Emily Sarita & Jana Nordstrand, "New York"
Pamela Vasquez, "Bark Bark Roof Bark"