THE GIRLS WRITE NOW AWARDS
Each year, Girls Write Now honors exceptional leaders who show us that if you can write, you can do anything. This festive evening showcases the storytellers, mentors, and creatives driving systemic change across all industries.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
6-8 PM
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG STUDIOS
NEW YORK CITY
GIRLS WRITE NOW HONOREE
Zibby Owens
Author, Podcaster & CEO, Zibby Media
I’m beyond thrilled that my support of Girls Write Now will play even a small part in engaging, motivating, and inspiring the next generation of women authors. In all my interviews with authors, I hear over and over again how the right mentor recognizing their writing talent at the right time changed their entire lives. How profound to enable those connections. ~ Zibby Owens
Zibby Owens is the author of Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature and children’s book Princess Charming, and editor of two anthologies, Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology and Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology. Her debut novel, Blank, is forthcoming on March 1, 2024 and is available for
pre-order now.
Creator and host of the award-winning, daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, Zibby is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, dubbed “the Zibby-verse” (L.A. Times). It includes publishing house Zibby Books, online magazine Zibby Mag, Zibby’s Book Club, retreats, classes, and events. She also owns Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA.
A regular contributor to “Good Morning America” and other outlets, she loves recommending books as “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” (Vulture). A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby currently lives in New York (with frequent visits to L.A.) with her husband, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions, and her four children ages 9 to 16. Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens and Substack where she tells it like it is.