The Best Short Stories 2024 with Penguin Random House
Tuesday, December 10
4:45-6 pm ET
virtual event; open to the public, including mentors, mentees, and members. Required for Fiction.
Join Girls Write Now and Penguin Random House for a panel discussion on the Best Short Stories 2024 Anthology featuring The O. Henry Prize Winners! Hear from Jenny Minton Quigley’s, the O. Henry Prize series editor, perspective on shaping the anthology and the O. Henry Prize Winners, Amber Caron and Caroline Kim, (whose work appear in the anthology) on their writing process and creative journey. The panel will be followed by a brief Q&A, where you can ask questions about the craft of storytelling and the journey of creating the anthology.
To attend this event, create a Girls Write Now account and register for this event through the portal.
Meet the Teaching Artist
Azia Armstead
Azia Armstead (she/her) is a poet from Richmond, Virginia. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University where she received the Goldwater Fellowship. In 2019, Azia was a finalist for the Furious Flower Poetry Prize judged by A. Van Jordan and honorable mention for the Arts Club of Washington’s Scholarship Award for Poetry. Azia was chosen as a finalist for the 2023 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, The Quarry, Obsidian, Rattle and elsewhere. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
Meet the Partner
Penguin Random House
Girls Write Now is proud to partner with Agent of Change Penguin Random House embracing our joint mission to amplify diverse voices and create a pipeline of talent into the publishing industry. Penguin Random House is the international home to more than 300 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints. Our mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone. We believe that books, and the stories and ideas they hold, have the unique capacity to connect us, change us, and carry us toward a better future for generations to come.
This event is open to:
all mentees, all mentors, members and the public