Girls Write Now Media
Anthologies
Each year, Girls Write Now publishes a print anthology showcasing the work of today’s next-generation voices. These books showcase stories that surprise us and stretch our understanding of the world and ourselves. Our anthologies have received praise from Gloria Steinem, Amanda Gorman, Roxane Gay, Meg Wolitzer, Emily St. John Mandel, Janet Mock, and countless others. Says People magazine, “It’s hard not to be inspired.”
Metamorphosis: Girls Write Now 2026 Anthology
To truly understand Girls Write Now, zoom out and observe a complex, multi-dimensional organism, constantly and consciously in the making. Its contours come into focus, and each word dissolves and evolves: Girls becomes a spectrum across gender, race, age, and poverty; Write spans genres, media, and disciplines; Now stretches across three decades and counting. Resolved into its component parts—G. W. N.—its very being refracts: a nonprofit, but also an incubator of art, a developer of professions, a community that heals. Made for writing and mentoring—and, in turn, for training, curating, and fortifying coalitions of artists, educators, and leaders. Rooted in New York City, branching outward: statewide, national, even global. Dubbed the Collaboratory: intimate, versatile, cutting-edge; designed to move with AI, a volatile marketplace, and our own psyches. For Girls Write Now, Metamorphosis is not only the title and theme of this anthology—it is a state of being.
Our Digital Story Collection
Our Digital Story Collection
How to Get Rid of Flowers
A story of my best friend and interacting with others through gifting away flowers after a year of no contact. Created with the background of a pier and New York spring.
My Strands of Identity
I've always wondered about hair and its intricacies…It's just dead cells but we want it to look good. And there's so much to talk about.
everything turns kind of cold
When the world becomes something like hopeless.
Temperature Check – Excerpt
An excerpt from Temperature Check, an Adult thriller featuring Kara, a 22-year old recluse whose life is changed overnight when she is the subject of a viral video, setting off a domino-effect of events.
Snapshot
We were nearing the end of our walk across Spain on the Camino de Santiago. At first, we saw it as a journey of personal growth. A brief snapshot of our privilege gave us pause…
The Letter
The perfect and responsible Elizabeth Hurston had never once made a mistake in her life. Now, she finally realized what it meant to ruin everything.
Living?
As the amalgamation of inherited struggles compiles daily, we the individuals of the world, can’t seem to get it together nor have we come to terms with what it means to be together.
Broken
A short story about the connection between a girl and her necklace.
“listen”
Sometimes you know better, sometimes you confront the part of you that knows better, sometimes you refuse to listen anyway.
Those Who Aren’t Seen
People-watching.
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