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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Browse our collection of stories from inside the book. Complete with notes from the author and anecdotes from our mentees and mentors.
Taking Our Place in History: The Girls Write Now 2020 Anthology
Stories from Inside "Taking Our Place in History" Coming Soon!
Stories from Inside "Taking Our Place in History" 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”.
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.