ANTHOLOGIES
Taking Our Place in History: The Girls Write Now 2020 Anthology
Girls Write Now is thrilled to be in partnership with Dutton, who produced this year’s anthology. A special thanks to the team at Dutton—Christine Ball,Maya Ziv,Marya Pasciuto and Hannah Feeney, and to Feminist Press and Jamia Wilson, who produced the e-book. Thank you as well to Amazon Literary Partnership for their continued support and for recognizing Girls Write Now as a 2020 grant recipient, which directly funds the production of our anthologies.
The Girls Write Now 2020 class of mentees are using their voices for change in one of the most uncertain periods of modern history. This book invites you into their homes and families, their schools and neighborhoods, their hearts, hopes, and fears. Enter a world where clay creatures take on aluminum oppressors. Get thrown against an elevator wall in the midst of a horror story. Go backstage with a rock band, say goodbye to relatives as you start a new life, stand with an engineer solving a coding problem. Stare out from a coffin—or up at whales in the sky—and fall in love with the color of your skin. Experience tragedy in a mosque, feel the wounds of slavery, know the terror of glass shattering in a World War II village, and see how this next generation of leaders look to the past and write their present to create a better future.
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Taking Our Place in History: The Girls Write Now 2020 Anthology
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Listen to the Kids: Sex-Ed Is More Important Than You Think, an Excerpt
An excerpt of an article I wrote where I interviewed eight students from across the city, country and world on their sex-education experiences.
Being the ‘Perfect’ Child
Being the "Perfect" Child is about standards that are commonly set within family structures. This piece talks about the struggles of trying to withhold both family and societal expectations.
Color is…
A piece about what the color purple means to me.
When I play piano, my grandmother wants to cry
This piece captures intergenerational strength and familial unity through a series of moments described through piano music.
Da Bronx
Da Bronx is a piece that depicts where I am from. A place near and dear to my heart.
Natural Hair
This story pertains to a time when I confronted my mother about changing my hair.
The Audition
An unassuming actress arrives at her audition, but nothing seems to be what it appears. From the peculiar office, to the even stranger auditioner, there lies something haunting lurking being the scene of one final audition.
Looking Out Over Something Senseless, It’s Just Me For Here Now, and Speaking
These three poems are related to reflection and my relation to the natural world.
you have been here before
An introspective piece about returning home and seeing the past through different eyes.
pause.
This poem is from the perspective of someone having an existential crisis and, in direct contrast to the title, has no pauses or punctuation.
Taking Our Places in History
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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.