Girls Write Now Media
Zines
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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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Bloodthirsty Queen
Body horror and glamour intersect to form a monstrous and bloodthirsty being that is both threatening and elegant.
Unearth
This poem represents the unearthing of old memories from the past and the things I used to treasure that I must now surrender to time.
Two Kids
Pulled from pensive thoughts about pasts and existence, we found ourselves letting go through "Two Kids.”
Passing the Time
In this collaborative pair project, we collected and reflected on the things that have helped us pass the time in—as we often hear now—such an unprecedented time.
The Human Stages of Life
A collection of poems, letters and photographs detailing what it's like to go through the five stages of human life—childhood, adolescence, adulthood, aging and death—from the perspective of a young girl.
