Girls Write Now Media
Stories
Thousands of stories across generations, nations, and emotions. All genres. All media. All perspectives seen and heard.
Featured Story Collections
Brighter Days: A Mental Health Awareness Collection
Stories exploring mental health, resilience, healing, connection, and hope.
Read Me Closely: A Famesick Collection
Five emerging writers invite us to read closely as they explore identity, longing, ambition, connection, and what it means to be seen.
Bridging Divides
Each of us holds a unique essence, the specific, sacred identities that we claim as individuals shape the perspectives we hold and the stories we tell. Too often, the differences between us cast shadows and build walls to separate our hearts from one another. But in these stories, a variety of differences are celebrated: a girl and a god discuss the concept of loneliness, siblings explore the nuances of neurodivergence, a granddaughter reaches back through generations to learn about her grandmother's childhood, a student embraces the academic culture of a another country, and many more. In each of these pieces, written by members of the Girls Write Now community, walls are taken down and the divides between us are bridged.
Our America
Bodily Autonomy
Black-nificence
Hotpot Epiphanies: An AAPI Story Collection
Constellations: A Disability Pride Collection
Stories from Our Diverse Community
Stories from Our Diverse Community
Walking on a Shortened Path of Time
The love that you have given me shall not perish even if time separates two souls that were destined to meet. This is a love letter to you, my beautiful Ammu.
pretty vain
About loving your pretty.
My Natural History
This poem is special to me; it is connected with my own journey of living with anxiety, longing, and what it means to be in my body.
Lunch Hour
Every day at school, I get lunch from the same place, just to see the grandma who works there. It’s the highlight of my day.
Contempt of Love
After five years apart, Aurora and Griffin's lives collide again. Aurora can't see past her anger, while Griffin spends his time hiding his past and trying to ignore his feelings for Aurora, which never left.
An Ode to Sandy: Three Things I Love
This poem was written from the perspective of Sandy. The word “sandy” itself may spark memories of your own, but I will leave it to you, reader, to figure out who Sandy truly is.
a study in nihilism
A short story about what happens when dreamers give in to hopelessness and futility.
spacetimecontinuum
This poem was originally rooted in the pandemic and quarantine, but evolved into a piece on introspection, rumination, and growth.
Palms
When I was born, I didn’t have hands…
Living in Gratitude While Missing My Native Tongue
It's easy—almost far too easy to just say where we are from. A country. A place. A word. But where we really come from is from our parents and our culture. A history.
We Want To Publish Your Story!
Currently enrolled mentors and mentees are invited to share their original multimedia work.
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