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Home / Programs / Girls Write Now Live Performances / Girls Write Now Live: June 5, 2020

Girls Write Now Live: June 5, 2020

Our spring series Girls Write Now Live: History in the Making features the diverse voices of today’s young writers! Each episode showcases electrifying original storytelling from teens who are taking their place in history through prose, poetry, video, illustration, and more forms of multimedia work.

On June 5th, Christine Ball, President & Publisher of Dutton and Berkley, honored Kiley Reid, author of the New York Times bestseller Such a Fun Age (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), with the Agent of Change Award. The evening was emceed by Amber Davis and Tiffany Davis, Co-founders of Context & Co. and Storytelling Coaches for Girls Write Now mentees.

This episode was dedicated to those who have lost their lives to racial violence. Girls Write Now stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

An Arizona native, Kiley Reid is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. Her writing has been featured or is forthcoming in the New York Times, Playboy, Ploughshares, December, New South, and Lumina, where her short story was the first-place winner in the 2017 Flash Prose Contest. Her New York Times–bestselling debut novel, Such a Fun Age, is currently in development by Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions and Sight Unseen Pictures. Kiley lives in Philadelphia.

We were also thrilled to host a live Pre-Show Q&A with Kiley in Zoom, which you can watch here.

The evening’s featured mentees took over the screen from their homes to share multi-genre, multimedia works. They are listed below in the order of performance.

  • Leadra Reeves; poem, “Rough Edges”
  • May Hathaway; poem, “Meditation on Blood”
  • Micaela Pinto; fiction, “505”
  • Tiffanie Roye; podcast, “Tiff Talks: An Afternoon with Brick Distributor”
  • Obenewa Adu; memoir, “Tales Of A Mixed Girl: An Open Letter To All The Mixed Girls Struggling To Find Their Identity”
  • Brianna Clarke-Arias; erasure poem, “The Body”
  • Anne Rhee; poem, “Crossing Over”
  • Hannah Thomas; fiction, “A Traditional Wife”
  • Angely Morel; memoir, “Letter to You, Letter to Me”
  • Daniela Ramos; graphic design and poem, “Sex is Her Identity”
  • Nylah Harris; video, “Evolution of Nylah and Kathleen”
  • Chelsea Yan; poem, “Epiphany of Hotpot”
  • Gabrielle Galchen; poem, “Forgotten Ignorance”
  • Olivia Hom; animation, “Rainbow Shoelaces”
  • Irene Hao; poem, “Flicker Out”
  • Siarra Francois; memoir, “The Quarantine Diaries”
  • Aaliyana Garcia; original song and video, “Feelings Change”
  • Elisabeth Hynes; poem, “Where Am I?”
  • Maxine Babb; fiction, “A Painter’s Job”
  • Lauren Cichon; photography and audio, “Bunk”
  • Sanjida Sheuba; poem, “Taken Out”
  • Ciara Mckay; poem, “Everything That Ever Haunted Us”
  • Amanda Castillo; fiction, “Oppidum Exspiravit”
  • Lena Habtu; poem, “exist(ing)”

  • Check out the full Girls Write Now Live lineup

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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.

Friday Night Salon with Diana Whitney and Lynn Melnick

Join us on Friday, April 16 from 6-7:30PM ET for Speaking the Unspeakable: Writing Yourself into Poems with Diana Whitney and Lynn Melnick!

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

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.

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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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