2026 Girls Write Now Awards
Thank You for Your Gift
A Word Becomes a World
Liate Stehlik, who leads publishing at the highest levels, has shaped what the world reads; the iconic photographer Randee St. Nicholas has been our guide to what the world sees. Both capture culture as it unfolds, opening minds in unexpected ways—betting on raw talent. The Girls Write Now Awards launches our year-end appeal, and we’re asking you to do the same.
Give to Girls Write Now
To understand Girls Write Now, zoom out and watch a complex, multi-dimensional organism, constantly and consciously in the making—a community reaching across gender, race, class, and age; a body of work that bends between genres, media, and disciplines; a nonprofit, but also an incubator of art, a developer of professions, a force that heals. Rooted in New York City with an ecosystem branching statewide, around the nation, and the globe. For Girls Write Now, metamorphosis is a state of being.
Come in close, though, and you realize it all starts with something small. They call it the butterfly effect—a single word, one act of kindness, in the right conditions, travels further than anyone can predict. A word evolves into a story, a byline, a career, a life a family didn’t think was available to them—a community transformed.
Your gift today is the catalyst for change on all levels.