What Lena Said…

Girls Write Now gives young women an incredible and essential gift: the chance to tell their own stories and become, in Nora Ephron’s words, the protagonists of their own lives.

I was lucky enough to go to schools where writing was a cherished skill, encouraged and nurtured and applauded. It’s so important that young women are told this is a valid form of expression, that their voices are worth celebrating and that they have within them the tools to create a new narrative for generations to come.

Girls Write Now is a gift not just to the young women it serves but to the rest of us who will become their devoted readers for life, filling our shelves with their books.

I have been lucky enough to have mentors, from Nora Ephron to Zadie Smith, who show me what it means to lay it on the line as a writer. I want every girl to have that gift.

Thank you for supporting Girls Write Now.