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Home / Programs / Girls Write Now Live Performances / Girls Write Now Live: The Anthology Launch Party

Girls Write Now Live: The Anthology Launch Party

To celebrate the launch of our newest publication, Taking Our Place in History: The 2020 Girls Write Now Anthology (Get your copy now from McNally Jackson) we aired a special episode of Girls Write Now Live!

A selection of our talented mentees—now published writers—read their multi-genre work, paying homage to our personal and collective histories for one remarkably inspiring evening. The show was emceed by Jisu Kim, Anthology Committee C0-Chair and more members of our 2020 Anthology Committee also joined to speak about the editorial process behind the book.

Girls Write Now is thrilled to be in partnership with Dutton who produced this year’s anthology. A special thanks to the team at Dutton for producing the book—Christine Ball, Maya Ziv, Marya Pasciuto, and Hannah Feeney. And to Feminist Press and Jamia Wilson for producing the e-book, as well as Amazon Literary Partners for their long-standing support.

In order of performance, mentees featured this evening include:

  • Abena Wirekoh; poem,”Because This is My First Life”
  • Nora Knoepflmacher; fiction, “Those Who Came Before”
  • Jadah Jones; poem, “Not Anymore”
  • Gyana Guity; memoir, “A Guide to Making History”
  • Tori Phelps; memoir, “Reclaiming My Time”
  • Gianny Guzman; memoir, “A Letter”
  • Sunei Clarke; memoir, “relating to, derived from, or consisting of matter: having real importance or great consequences”
  • Mai Listokin; fiction, “Goodbye Berlin”
  • Kristina Dawoud; memoir, “A Place in History”
  • Claudia Sanchez-Jean; memoir, “An Ode To Who We Will Be”
  • Ria Parker; memoir, “A Tribute to Myself”
  • Lulu Sha; fiction, “Evacuation”
  • Mariama Diallo; poem, “The Illusion Of Inclusion”

Check out the full Girls Write Now Live 2020 lineup!

Girls Write Now Live is presented in partnership with the New-York Historical Society. We’d also like to extend our gratitude to Judith Curr of HarperCollins, Christine Ball of Dutton, and Tiffany and Amber Davis of Context & Co for their help with this program.

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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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