Girls Write Now Media
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Each year mentees in the Girls Write Now publishing journeys put together a zine to showcase their work.
Take Me With You
Issue 1
In the first edition of Take Me With You, mentees and mentors wrote based on the theme of “underground” and shared stories, poems, art, and ideas that serve to form and inspire community.
Take Me With You
Issue 2
For the second issue of Take Me With You, mentors and mentees focused on food and culture. They created pieces that celebrate the interconnection between our lived experiences, the food we make and eat, and the people around us who share recipes, meals, and their lives with us.
Fistfull of Verse
Poetry Zine
A Fistful of Verse is a podcast and poetry zine made in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Program and Girls Write Now.
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Take Me With You
An Editor's Guide The excavators of Take Me With You: Underground are not afraid of the dark. In this zine, they illuminate the dim rooms of memory, laying out past selves in neat rows on a rumpled bedspread. They voice secret desires and suppressed stories unspoken. They let what was once bubbled up inside, rise to the surface and burst through the confines placed on them. Accompany us in this transformative journey forging ahead towards something new and vibrant. The world is dark, but we shine. I neatly pack everything back up To care for them another year. Versions of myself I look back on, But still feel the need to protect. I unwillingly surrender myself to time And the memories all around me. Today I imagined time was frozen. How to tell the tale? It’s 2004. It’s 2020. It’s 2009. This is uncharted territory I close my eyes and see I am not a lost girl.
Take Me With You Issue #2
A Fistful of Verse
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Memories of Blue
Have you ever had a moment where all your big memories flood back to you like a blue ocean wave?
Food For The Soul
Flavor, cookery, and presentation are the vehicles of culture, identity, and creativity. I’m extremely blessed to be loved with enough provision to experience finger-lickin’ meals.
The Beginning
Identical twins Ava and Brin sit in a mysterious restaurant awaiting their order. What they are about to be served will put a cherished twin tradition to a test.
If My Poetry Could Talk to Me
Episode 1 of A Fistful of Verse Have you ever wondered what a poem would say if it could speak back to us? Poetry 360 mentee Adrian Mora explores this
Kindness? Or People Pleasing?
The poem “Kindness? Or People Pleasing?” highlights how the line between kindness and people-pleasing blurs for both parties— the pleaser and the pleased. Dom explores how the blur affects both from the pleaser’s perspective.
The Depths of Myself
A look at what I hide, even from those closest to me, and why.
The Last Dance
This piece is a short story about my character, Princess Amantdeiylaia. It's her 15th birthday, and an old friend pays her a visit. But is his presence welcomed?
How to tell the tale
Collage poetry unlocks ideas and feelings that live below the surface. The words guide me into the creation of the poems as I am being pulled by an external force.
2004
Here's a peek into the ever-evolving story of my life, encapsulated in a short but mighty list.
Shining, Shattering
I wanted to explore the literal meaning behind overused phrases and metaphors, such as “pools of light,” “it was like time had frozen,” and “it felt like flying.”
