ANTHOLOGIES
Here & Now: Girls Write Now 2024 Anthology
In partnership with Dutton Books, Dottir Press, and Amazon Literary Partnership, Girls Write Now is thrilled to announce our newest publication, Here & Now: Girls Write Now 2024 Anthology. Available from Books Are Magic, McNally Jackson, and Amazon, the anthology is a multi-genre showcase from our 25th year of mentoring and training the next generation of young voices.
Do not read this book, unless you want to know what real humans are thinking. Taking poetic license to express things in ways that make AI fear it will be replaced by humans, the stories in these pages reflect the here and now: a collective urgency as the pandemic recedes, the world overheats, wars overwhelm, and the national discourse is conducted in a language far from love. In these pieces, cooking unites families, supermarkets become places of connection and adventure, neighbors evolve into mermaids as the sea levels rise, and every month nails are trimmed to cut down memory. The smallest gifts in life become impossible blessings of gratitude. There is a sense of battle with the norms and an understanding that things are not right, but they will be. This anthology is evidence of a future worth fighting for in which the long tradition of building community through the written word is upheld during the highs, lows, and everything in between.
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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.
Girls Write Now Here & Now: 2024 Anthology
Stories from Inside Here & Now
Stories from Inside Here & Now
to you after li-young lee
A reminder that you don’t need permission to feel, to want, to write — you already have the right.
Episode 1: On Environmental Advocacy through Creative Expression & Community Action
In this episode of The Vision Lab: Youth Voices for Change, Lead Incubator Mentee Robyn Lam speaks with Girls Write
Hit the road, Sharon
Excerpt from Screenplay 1950- Sharon’s home where she grew up Sharon: Mom! Mom! Sharon’s mom comes from upstairs to the living room Sharon’s mother: What, child?! Can’t you see I am busy. Sharon: Look what I found in the magazine, Andrea Hill is at the Ritz Carlton offering singing lessons. Mother: Sharon, darling, you're 10 years old, you know that you have no talent and will just have to marry well. You meet men at good colleges which means you have to study. Plus you wouldn’t even be let in with the clothes you wear. Sharon: oh, okay. Math isn’t very fun though.
Kina Under the Piano
After Aunt Ida died, Kina lies awake longing to hear her play once more. Until one night, she does…
Afloat at Sea
To devout to a form or an idea of perfection of living, will one only find that their voyage to such reality is forever lost like a shipwrecked at sea.
Lord’s Prayer
This is a "found poem" , in which a pre-existing text is re-structured to create new poetic meaning.
Solitude
This poem is for everyone who has felt alone in this world.
scrapbook of my childhood
This poem encapsulates the sense of feeling trapped beneath the weight of expectation as life continues around you, simultaneously representing a longing for the innocence of one's past.
Don’t Water Dead Flowers
A poem depicting the complex feelings following the endings of deteriorated relationships.
You are Safe. You are Protected. You are Sexy.
These are the words that have been guiding my growth.
Praise for Here & Now
From the Literary Community
Anecdotes from Inside
Mentees & Mentors share their experience working together
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.