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Home / Programs / Girls Write Now Live Performances / CHAPTERS Reading, June 2017

CHAPTERS Reading, June 2017

We celebrated the end of our 2016-17 program year and graduation for our senior mentees on June 16, 2017! Our community was surrounded with mentees and mentors celebrating the new chapters yet to unfold for our graduating mentees. Our keynote speaker was middle grade author, Karina Yan Glaser. Her book The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street will be released in October and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

IN OUR WORDS

Read more about our June CHAPTERS here, written by Senior Program Coordinator, Emily Yost.

GIRLS WRITE NOW READERS

Winkie Ma, Coconut Jelly; Karina Martinez, Home; Tasnim Tarannum, Slowly And Then All At Once; Jackie Eke, Nigeria; Kiana Jackson, Society, Society-What Do You See?; Diamond Abreau, Times Are Changing; Cathioska Rodriguez & Kate Mulley, A Cat With Nine Lives; Brittney Nanton, I’m Sorry; Jadaida Glover, 16th Street Church Bombing; Grace Han & Christina Tesoro, With Love and Solidarity; Rahat Huda, All Kinds of Kinds; Aliyah Simon-Felix, Kitchen Talk; Kayla Glemaud, From Hope to Healing; Ana Prieto & Julia Rubin, Two Sides Of The Same Friend & Conceptual; Meek Thomas, Tired God; Rachel Aghanwa, Them Skinny Jeans; Diana Romero & Jan Alexander, Hot Seat; Soledad Aguilar-Colon, Mi Tierra; Jaela Vaughn, Dear Mr. White Privilege; Laura Rose Cardona, Demonic Angels; Regina Fontanelli, Ides of March For A Girl Named May

EMCEES

  • SABRINA PERSAUD is a first-year mentee at Girls Write Now. She is a sophomore at Richard R. Green High School of Teaching. She has had a passion for reading and writing since a very young age. Her works include poetry, short stories, and realistic fiction. She strives to speak her truth through her writing. As a young writer, Sabrina hopes she can get her voice out and connect with others.
  • STACIE EVANS writes fiction, essays, and poetry. She also writes and draws Adventures in Racism, a series of essays in comics form. Stacie has studied writing at the City College of New York and is a four-time alum of the VONA Voices writing workshops for writers of color. She is currently studying to be an Undoing Racism workshop facilitator. She chairs the Board of Directors of WE LEARN, an organization dedicated to promoting women’s literacy as a tool for empowerment, equity, and social justice. Her work has appeared in New South, The Powder Room, After Ferguson, JustNoMore, two practitioner anthologies from Information Age Publishing, and Bitch Magazine. She writes online at girlgriot.wordpress.com, “if you want kin, you must plant kin…”

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At Girls Write Now, we are saddened and horrified by the domestic terrorism grounded in the systemic racism and inequality we work as a community to challenge and change every day. We are here to support you individually and as a community through our robust programming. Check out our calendar to see our current offerings or visit our Life Resources page to support you during this time. 

We’re Hiring!

Looking for more purpose-driven work in the new year? Check out available roles to join the team! 

Friday Night Salon with Arisa White

Join us on Friday, January 15, 6-7:30PM EST for Memory, Metaphor & Magic: Writing Poetic Memoir with Arisa White!

GIVE. WRITE. NOW. And Thank you!!

Girls Write Now’s services are more essential than ever before—serving the hardest hit communities—and many of our young women and gender nonconforming youth have themselves become essential workers to help their families. They carry an enormous burden and face devastating loss, slipping further into poverty. To meet the need, we have enriched and extended our programs, leading the historical transition to virtual learning.

Get Involved!

Are you a licensed mental health professional who’d love to work with our community of writers and creatives? We’re seeking volunteer Wellness Advisors. Get more info & apply here!

Relive the Girls (Re)Write Now Awards

If you missed the awards, you can still watch it! Relive this revolutionary night of mini–master classes with honorees on empathy, art, activism & humor and Girls Write Now mentees on writing with purpose, climate justice & self-care. 

Writing from our Future Leaders

Taking Our Place in History: the Girls Write Now 2020 Anthology was published with support from Dutton and Amazon Literary Partnership, available for purchase from McNally Jackson Books and anywhere ebooks are sold!

Girls Write Now in the News

Girls Write Now’s work has recently been featured by the National Endowment for the Arts, Time Out New York, NYXT and more!

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