Anthologies

“Giving young women the ability to express themselves with clarity and force is an act of great potential social and political power. Girls Write Now harnesses that power.” —Zadie Smith, author of Swing Time, On Beauty and White Teeth

We take the strongest, boundary-pushing work each girl writes from the Writing & Mentoring Program and collect it each year in our award-winning literary journals. For the Digital Media Mentoring Program, we have exhibited their groundbreaking work through both online multimedia anthologies and an art book featuring their digital creations. We publish pieces from all of our mentors and mentees, showcasing the stories that surprise us and stretch our understanding of the world and ourselves.

Our anthologies have received praise from Gloria Steinem, Roxane Gay, Meg Wolitzer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christina Baker Kline, Eve Ensler, Isaac Fitzgerald, Emily St. John Mandel, Janet Mock, and countless others. Says People magazine, “It’s hard not to be inspired.”

The Girls Write Now anthology has been recognized as the Outstanding Book of the Year in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and has earned additional honors from the International Book Awards, National Indie Excellence Awards, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and the New York Book Festival.

Get the Girls Write Now 2017 publications of RiseSpeakChange: print and multimedia

Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices

“As we celebrate 20 years, I’m so proud of the powerful stories from our young writers showcased in this inspiring anthology.” —Maya Nussbaum, Founder & Executive Director Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices (Tin House, October 2018) “A feat of literary awesomeness and a slice of inspirational magic” — Bust “8…

GENERATION F: THE 2018 MULTIMEDIA ANTHOLOGY

Generation F: The Girls Write Now 2018 Multimedia Anthology debuted at the 2018 QWERTY Digital Media Exhibition, where our mentees showcased projects created at the intersection of language, technology, and art. Interactive poems made with code, video memoirs overlaid with self-produced music, and thought-provoking podcasts — our mentees used the skills they discovered in our digital media workshops…

Generation F: The Girls Write Now 2018 Anthology

Get your copy of Generation F on Amazon now. Fabulous. Ferocious. Fragile. Fresh. Female. Announcing the next edition in our award-winning anthology series, Generation F: The Girls Write Now 2018 Anthology. We are fighters and feminists, freethinkers and forces to be reckoned with. We are fitting in (or not), fed up, fighting back, and figuring it…

RISE SPEAK CHANGE: THE 2017 MULTIMEDIA ANTHOLOGY

At the QWERTY Digital Media Exhibition, our mentees showcased projects that are changing the way we tell narratives. A video overlaid with powerful poetry, thoughtful podcasts, and interactive games created with Twine — our mentees used the skills they learned in our digital workshops to create these multi-platform masterpieces. View the final projects in Rise Speak Change: The…

Rise Speak Change: The Girls Write Now 2017 Anthology

The next installment in Girls Write Now’s award-winning anthology series, Rise Speak Change, was released on May 23rd at the Girls Write Now Awards. Girls Write Now would like to thank Random House for their help producing this year’s anthology, as part of their Random Acts of Kindness initiative. This collection is also made possible thanks to a charitable contribution from Amazon Literary Partnership.

(R)evolution: The 2016 Multimedia Anthology

A poetry zine inspired by houseplants, a podcast covering the 2016 Presidential election, and a choose your own adventure story — these remarkable digital initiatives were produced by the mentees in our Digital Media Mentoring Program, where they use the skills they learn in our digital workshops to create these multi-platform masterpieces. The final projects…

(R)evolution

(R)EVOLUTION: The 2016 Girls Write Now Anthology

(R)evolution: The 2016 Girls Write Now Anthology is now available on Amazon. Girls Write Now announces the next installment in our award-winning anthology series, (R)evolution: The Girls Write Now 2016 Anthology, published by She Writes Press (May 2016), featured in Newsweek, and made possible thanks to a charitable donation from Amazon Literary Partnership. This literary celebration showcases the girls and…

VOICE/VOICE

VOICE/VOICE: The Girls Write Now 2015 Digital Program Art Book

At the Digital Program’s 2015 showcase QWERTY, Girls Write Now premiered VOICE/VOICE, the Digital Program’s first art book that showcases work created by Girls Write Now digital mentees during the 2014-15 program year. The slim and colorful 65-page limited edition chapbook showcases stills of digital work that incorporates creative writing and mixed media that were created…

VOICE TO VOICE: THE 2015 GIRLS WRITE NOW ANTHOLOGY

Voice to Voice: The 2015 Girls Write Now Anthology is now available on Amazon. Girls Write Now is excited to release this year’s award-winning anthology, Voice to Voice at the Girls Write Now Awards Gala. This literary celebration showcases the girls and their mentors’ best work, from poetry and fiction to screenplays and memoirs. Our girls tackle big issues, such as…

Breaking Through

Breaking Through 2014 Multimedia Anthology

From coding an HTML narrative on a zombie apocalypse to creating a fashion blog featuring photoshoots and industry interviews, digital mentees used the skills they learned in Studio Workshops to create multi-platform masterpieces! Here is a collection of the Digital Writing Program’s work in the 2014 Multimedia Anthology.

Breaking Through: The 2014 Girls Write Now Anthology

This year’s anthology showcases stories both intimate and universal, and through each piece you can witness not only the talents of our young writers, but also the friendships that bond each mentee and mentor pair.

New Worlds: The 2013 Girls Write Now Anthology

In tune with this year’s curricular theme, New Worlds: the Girls Write Now 2013 Anthology is composed of stories that celebrate the incredible diversity and creative fearlessness of our intergenerational community, showcasing poetry, fiction, memoir and more that surprise us and stretch our understanding of the world and ourselves.

Remix: The 2012 Girls Write Now Anthology

Remix: The 2012 Girls Write Now Anthology

Remix reflects how we write now in the digital age: Skipping, combining and reimagining the work, people and places that inspire us, folding together those moments to create something new.

Opening Lines: The 2011 Girls Write Now Anthology

Opening Lines: The 2011 Girls Write Now Anthology

The 2011 curriculum at Girls Write Now is organized around the idea of Opening Lines, and each chapter of this volume welcomes us with the first line of a mentee’s piece written this season.

Where We Live: The 2010 Girls Write Now Anthology

Where We Live: The 2010 Girls Write Now Anthology

Guided by this year’s theme Where We Live, we embraced our surroundings — the intimacy of our bedrooms; stoops and street corners; even beyond our city limits.

Bridging Worlds: The 2009 Girls Write Now Anthology

Bridging Worlds: The 2009 Girls Write Now Anthology

The theme Bridging Worlds was chosen this season because that’s precisely what we do through our one-to-one pair meetings, monthly workshops, and large-scale public readings: dissolve the boundaries between generations and genres; span the divide between emotion and expression; and traverse those conveniently kept and dangerously unexplored places “between blindness and sight,” “rejection and desire,” and “loss and love.”

Becoming Women: The 2008 Girls Write Now Anthology

Becoming Women: The 2008 Girls Write Now Anthology

The theme of this year’s season and anthology, Becoming Women, reflects an understanding that growth is both constant and necessary. We are always becoming: women; writers; and together, a community of women writers.