This year’s anthology, Voice to Voice, is a medley of powerful stories. Our girls tackle big issues, such as race relations and abuse, as well as current feelings on social media, self-esteem and family dynamics. Learn a little more about the mentees and their featured work: “Black is just a color,” I’ve heard people say. Technically, they’re…
Coming May 19: Voice to Voice: Girls Write Now’s 2015 Anthology
To order a copy of Voice to Voice visit Amazon. This anthology is made possible thanks to a charitable contribution from Amazon.com. Girls Write Now is excited to release this year’s award-winning anthology, Voice to Voice at the Girls Write Now Awards Gala on May 19 at 6 PM at Three Sixty Tribeca. This literary celebration showcases the girls and their mentors’ best work,…
2014 Holiday Gift Guide!
The holidays are right around the corner! Enjoying the season but still looking for some great gifts? We’ve rounded up some suggestions we know you can’t go wrong with, and if purchased through Amazon Smile, you’ll be supporting our programs at the very same time! GIRLS WRITE NOW SWAG! 2014 Anthology: Breaking Through: $20 “When girls write…
Breaking Through
This post was written by program intern, Olaya Barr. The 2014 Anthology is coming soon, and in it you can get a glimpse of the outstanding range of what “Breaking Through,” means for the creative minds behind Girls Write Now. Each year, we collect the strongest works of our mentees and mentors and compile them…
Coming June 3rd: Breaking Through: Girls Write Now’s 2014 Anthology
Girls Write Now is excited to release this year’s award-winning anthology, Breaking Through, at the Girls Write Now Awards Gala on June 3rd at 6pm at the Bowery Hotel. This literary celebration showcases the girls and their mentor’s best work, from poetry and fiction to screenplays and memoirs. This year, NYC’s First Lady has written a poignant foreword: “There are poems…
Award-Winning YA Author Adele Griffin on GWN
Adele Griffin was the Guest Author at our April 2013 CHAPTERS Reading, and wrote the following post as a foreword for our 2013 anthology, New Worlds. Check out what Adele had to say about our community and what New Worlds means to her. Girls Write Now! Could there be three more on-point words to describe…
New Worlds Launched: From West Philly to Albania and Back
Buy New Worlds: The Girls Write Now 15h Anniversary Anthology from indie bookstore McNally Jackson Books, or check out the press release. Want to review or excerpt the book? Contact laura@girlswritenow.org. A warm Tuesday night at the start of summer. McNally Jackson Books was buzzing. Everywhere you looked there were friends standing in circles, exchanging jokes…
New Worlds Through A Mentor’s Eyes: 2013 Anthology
Girls Write Now is celebrating the debut of our 2013 Anthology. Join us for the June 25 Launch Party at McNally Jackson plus pre-order a book now! Albania. Kosovo. London. Tibet. Brooklyn. Times Square. Grandparents. Lost friendships. Journeys, emotional and joyous, physical and arduous. Politics, electoral and cultural – of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality,…
GWN 2012 REMIX Anthology, on Sale Now
The Girls Write Now 2011 anthology won Independent Publisher Award for Outstanding Book of the Year, plus honors from the Indie Excellence Awards and the New York Book Festival. Don’t miss out on this year’s award-winning stories from our talented mentees, made possible with support from Amazon.com. Purchase REMIX: The Girls Write Now 2012 Anthology for an aspring teen writer, a…