May 23, 2017
Girls Write Now Awards
Girls Write Now celebrates our Fifth Annual Awards at City Winery.
Honoring Sophia Amoruso, Ilana Glazer, Melissa Harris–Perry, Abbi Jacobson, and Zadie Smith.With Special Guests Natalie Mojica, Daleelah Saleh, and Elaine Welteroth.
Honoree
Melissa Harris–Perry
Maya Angelou Presidential Chair, Wake Forest University
Special Guests:
Natalie
Mojica
Girls Write Now mentee
Daleelah
Saleh
Girls Write Now mentee
Elaine
Welteroth
Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue
In Their Words
If You Can Write, You Can Do Anything
“Take yourself seriously. It’s not about being perfect;it’s about being vulnerable. Women know better than anyone that vulnerability is strength.”
Ilana Glazer
Honoree
“Girls Write Now is arming girls with the tools to tell their stories and express what is going on in the world and in their lives and we need that more than ever, more than ever before we need that right now.”
Abbi Jacobson
Honoree
“You have to be what you’ve never seen before. You have to write it.”
Melissa Harris-Perry
Honoree
“Keep writing. You’ll find yourself in your writing.”
Sophia Amoruso
Honoree
“How marvelous to create an organization that makes writing a regular possibility for hundreds of girls.”
Zadie Smith
Honoree
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