ANTHOLOGIES

Generation F: The 2018 Multimedia Anthology

Generation F: The Girls Write Now 2018 Multimedia Anthology debuted at the 2018 QWERTY Digital Media Exhibition, where our mentees showcased projects created at the intersection of language, technology, and art. Interactive poems made with code, video memoirs overlaid with self-produced music, and thought-provoking podcasts — our mentees used the skills they discovered in our digital media workshops to build these multi-platform and genre-bending works of art.

Generation F Book Mock 2018 anthology

At Girls Write Now, our mentees are part of a generation yet to be defined, a generation facing unprecedented challenges, freedoms, technologies, and choices. They are fighters and feminists, freethinkers and forces to be reckoned with. They are fitting in (or not), fed up, fighting back, and figuring it out in classrooms, cafes, and all across NYC. This year, our mentees and mentors explored what it meant to be members of Generation F. As a community we sought to redefine our feminist identities, find our voices, fight for essential freedoms, and face our world with fresh eyes.

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Reading from the 2024 Anthology Launch Party

Foreword by

Ashley C. Ford

Honoree

Ashley C. Ford is a writer, host, and educator who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate lab Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy. Her memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, will be published by Flatiron Books on June 1, 2021. Ford is the former host of The Chronicles of Now podcast, co-host of The HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio, seasons one & three of MasterCard’s Fortune Favors The Bold, as well as the video interview series PROFILE by BuzzFeed News, and Brooklyn-based news & culture TV show, 112BK. She was also the host of the first season of Audible’s literary interview series, Authorized. She has been named among Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in Media (2017), Brooklyn Magazine’s Brooklyn 100 (2016), Time Out New York’s New Yorkers of The Year (2017), and Variety’s New Power of New York (2019). Photo Credit: Sylvie Rosokoff

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Introduction by

Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Special Guest

Samhita Mukhopadhya is a writer, editor, speaker and digital strategist living in NYC. She is currently the Executive Editor at Teen Vogue and deeply passionate about feminism, politics, culture, fashion, existential dating dilemmas and racial justice.

 

Samhita is the co-editor of the best-selling anthology Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump’s America and the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life. She is also the former Senior Editorial Director of Culture and Identities at Mic and former Executive Editor of award-winning blog Feministing.

 

You can find her writing at Splinter, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, NY Magazine, Medium, Talking Points Memo, Mic and Jezebel.

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Read What's Inside

Browse our collection of stories from inside the book. Complete with notes from the author and anecdotes from our mentees and mentors.

Stories from Inside "Generation F" Coming Soon!

Stories from Inside "Generation F" Coming Soon!

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Praise for "Generation F"

From the Literary Community

“Girls Write Now has put together a book of the young women who have something to say. The same young women we all are or have been before. ”
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Ashley C. Ford Author
“Girls Write Now is revolutionary in confronting the reality that women’s voices are often overlooked, forgotten- or worse, silenced. ”
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Samhita Mukhopadhyay Honoree
“These young girls are the real visionaries of tomorrow and we are beyond lucky to read their stories today. ”
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Jenny Zhang Author

Intersectional Voices in Editorial Print Committee

Every year, the Intersectional Voices in Editorial (IV Edit) Print Committee brings their talents to the task of editing, producing, and promoting this fresh collection of writing from today’s emerging voices. The committee is made up of mentors, mentees, and other volunteers who are passionate about diversifying the publishing landscape.