ANTHOLOGIES
Girls Write Now Unmuted: The 2021 Anthology
Girls Write Now is thrilled to be in partnership again this year with Dutton, who produced this anthology. A special thanks to the team at Dutton—Christine Ball,Maya Ziv, and Lexy Cassola, and to Feminist Press and Jamia Wilson, who produced the ebook. Thank you as well to Amazon Literary Partnership for their continued support, which directly funds the production of our anthologies.
In the 2021 Girls Write Now Anthology, our mentees give voice to fear and silence, demand justice, and hold nothing back. To be unmuted right now requires a new brand of bravery, and these writers show how it’s done. Using stories, poems, essays, fiction, drama, interviews and more, they report on a global pandemic, a climate crisis and the movement for racial equality. They also invite us on their personal journeys through the labyrinth of young adulthood: feeling the rich soil of a neighborhood garden beneath their fingers; traveling through time in search of their parents; inhaling the charged air where young love is brewing. In a world pushed to the precipice of change, in a society that values the tried and true over the dynamic and new, the Girls Write Now class of 2021 is breaking the chains and showing what it means to speak loud, clear and true—to be unmuted.
Foreword by
Introduction by
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.
Girls Write Now Unmuted Print Anthology
Stories from Inside "Unmuted" Coming Soon!
Stories from Inside "Unmuted" Coming Soon!
Just Like the Seasons Change I Change Too
My piece discusses the favorite memories that come from the seasons of fall, winter, spring, and summer. I wrote this to show how each season gives me different emotions and experiences.
Rooted In Us
so you tie the knot and i let you go amity in time now froze ribbon and lace trim lining
Across the Table But A World Apart
How an interaction between teens across table became an intense core memory, riddled with conflicting emotions, and later becoming the
For years, I was very good at being fine.
This piece has been named an honorable mention of Lena Dunham’s Famesick Writing Contest with Girls Write Now. “What nobody tells you
But You Don’t Look Autistic
This piece has been named an honorable mention of Lena Dunham’s Famesick Writing Contest with Girls Write Now. “Masking was exhausting and
Up & Down
This piece has been named an honorable mention of Lena Dunham’s Famesick Writing Contest with Girls Write Now.
The Reconciliation Room
This piece has been named an honorable mention of Lena Dunham’s Famesick Writing Contest with Girls Write Now.
someday i’ll love
This piece is the winner of Lena Dunham's Famesick Writing Contest with Girls Write Now and part of the story collection Read Me Closely.
Episode 2: Preserving Heritage, Community Spaces & Cultural Stories
In this episode of The Vision Lab: Youth Voices for Change, Lead Incubator Mentee Chelsea speaks with Seri Warden, Senior
Excerpt from “The Swingset”
“A single day or moment can be the start of a completely new story”.
Praise for Here & Now
From the Literary Community
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.