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Home / Programs / Girls Write Now Live Performances / CHAPTERS READING, JUNE 2019

CHAPTERS READING, JUNE 2019

Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson was the featured Agent of Change honoree in the last installment of our 2019 Spring Series—the June CHAPTERS Reading at the N-Y Historical Society. Amy Berkower, President of Writers’ House, Laurie’s friend and agent, and an Agent of Change award recipient herself, presented Laurie with her Agent of Change award. In Laurie’s keynote address, she spoke about her journey to becoming a writer, the value that writing has in her life, and how she overcame the trauma of being a survivor of sexual assault. Laurie also signed the readers’ copies of her latest book, SHOUT.

Emcees Daleelah Saleh (L) and Maeve Slon (R) with honoree Laurie Halse Anderson (center)

Honoree Laurie Halse Anderson signing mentee Nylah Harris’ copy of SHOUT

Amy Berkower introducing Laurie Halse Anderson

GIRLS WRITE NOW READERS

Today’s mentees bravely and confidently showcased their best work, reading about female empowerment, family, health, and learning to love oneself:

Kimberly Dominguez, My Fifth Season(s); Luna Serena Azcurrain, The Ring; Lorena Maca Garcia, Our Summer’s End; Emily Rinaldi, Fashion; Sarane James, This Invisible Disease; Amina Mukhtar, AHM-NAH; Agustina Harris, Acceptance; Analise Guerrero, About Time; Lauren Spencer, Carry On; Amina Morgan, Helping Me See; Shanai Williams, For a Mother who has passed…; Hasina Foye, Ears; Senjuti Gayen, Hair Like Durga; Dania Rodriguez, The City that Never Sleeps; Isabelle Sanderson, Modern Fairy Tale; Janiah Taylor, Ode to Being Au Natural; Ski’La Richardson, Sally’s Epiphany; Yadyvic Estrella, Mane of a Lion: A Cultural Exploration into a Teenager’s Hair; Soledad Aguilar Colón, Dear Big, Round, Plumpy Butt; Nylah Harris, Hear My Voice; Roshnie Rupnarain, Sing; Annemarie Alms, purging; Jayla Greenberg, Chameleon Girl; Brianna Clarke-Arias, Returning; Yamilet Ortega, Dasani; Waeza Jagirdar, Untitled; Mariah Galindo, Minority, Proper Noun

Mentee Agustina Harris reading “Acceptance”

Mentee Luna Serena Azcurrain reading “The Ring”

Mentee Mariah Galindo closing off the evening with her piece, “Minority, Proper Noun”

Our readers of the night posing with our emcees, Amy Lu, Daleelah Saleh, and Maeve Slon.

EMCEES

  • Amy Lu is a second-year Girls Write Now mentee and a graduating senior living in Washington Heights. Her hobbies include baking, doodling, embroidering, and petting cats at cat shelters. She dislikes getting lost, but is very good at it, even though she has lived in the city since she was five.
  • Daleelah Saleh is a third-year Girls Write Now mentee and a graduating senior living in Astoria. While she can sometimes be found working on short stories or memoirs, it is poetry that has captured her heart (and pen), in all its rawness and intensity. Her work has received multiple Silver Keys and Honorable Mentions from the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. Over the course of her high school career, she has been involved with the Sadie Nash Leadership Project, the HERLead Fellowship, PROOF: Media for Social Justice, and the Teen Activist Project at NYCLU. When not writing or working to smash the patriarchy and make the world a better place, Daleelah can be found indulging in other creative forms, such as taking photographs and playing guitar. She will be attending Middlebury College in the fall as a Posse Scholar.
  • Maeve Slon is a fourth-year Girls Write Now mentee and graduating senior living in Harlem. Maeve often uses the word “artsy” to describe herself and creates multimedia art making her poems into short videos. Writing gives Maeve a voice, a camera gives her eyes. A dream of hers is to write and direct a short indie film. She tries to live every day to the fullest, and if that means skipping statistics to sit in the park and write, even if her grade will suffer, she’ll do it anyway.

From left to right: Amy Lu, Daleelah Saleh, Maeve Slon

PERFORMANCES

Watch the speakers of the night, from our honorees to our mentees, in the playlist below!

HONOREE INTERVIEW

Watch our exclusive interview with Laurie Halse Anderson below! You can also watch Laurie’s keynote address here!

Thank you to all who attended our Spring Series events!

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Presenting Girls Write Now Live: Unmuted Spring Performance Series!

Join Girls Write Now mentees and mentors and special guest honorees for a boundary-pushing performance series! This season, we’re proud to bring you eight shows—March 12, March 26, April 9, April 23, May 7, May 18, May 21 and June 11. Register now to join us in celebrating the power of shared stories!

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At Girls Write Now, we work to challenge and change the systemic racism and inequality by breaking down the barriers of race and poverty to elevate the voices of girls and gender nonconforming youth who are too often not heard—or worse, silenced. From mental and emotional wellness to advocating for racial justice, 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.

Girls Write Now Stands in Solidarity with the AAPI Community

At Girls Write Now, we are alarmed and deeply disturbed by the recent incidents of violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the country. As ever, we are committed to challenging systemic racism and xenophobia, and standing in solidarity with our community as we process and heal through art and storytelling.

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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.

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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!

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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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