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• Confirmed book launch at prestigious literary event Girls Write Now Awards Gala in the spring of 2016, where literary luminaries and publishers gather (past award winners include Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul, Tayari Jones, and more)

• Past endorsements by People, Bustle, and best-selling authors Roxane Gay, Gloria Steinem, Meg Wolitzer, Christina Baker Kline, Janet Mock, Farai Chideya, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Gretchen Rubin, Emily St. John Mandel, Isaac Fitzgerald, Eve Ensler, Robin Morgan, Mariane Pearl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tiphanie Yanique, Gayle Forman, Chirlane McCray, Susannah Cahalan, Lily Koppel, Catherine Lacey, and Kimberly McCreight

• Outreach to local and national radio show hosts for interviews/reviews

• Promotion via Girls Write Now website

• Promotion via Girls Write Now’s robust social media platforms; 12K Twitter followers and 600K impressions in 2015; 7.5K Facebook likes, 175K YouTube views; an aggregate reach of hundreds of thousands.

• Established relationships with prominent and loved NYC bookstores, such as Greenlight Bookstore and McNally Jackson, the latter providing a heavy promotional push with upfront displays by the register.

About the Author

Founded eighteen years ago, Girls Write Now is New York’s first and only organization with a writing and mentoring model for girls. We are a community of professional writers dedicated to providing opportunities for underserved high school girls to develop their independent voices and write their way to a better future. Girls Write Now has been distinguished by The New York Times and the White House—twice—as one of the nation’s top after-school arts and culture programs, and is a two-time Nonprofit Excellence award winner.

Reviews

2017 IPPY Bronze Medal Winner in Anthologies

2016 Best Book Award Winner in Anthology: Non-Fiction



Praise for our award-winning Girls Write Now Anthology series:



“It’s hard not to be inspired.”


—People magazine



“In giving young women in the five boroughs this biggest of all gifts, Girls Write Now is giving the rest of us the gift of those girls.”


—Gloria Steinem



“Girls Write Now makes the extraordinary possible—helping girls find and give shape to their voices.”


—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist



“The power of expression is in evidence in this anthology, which demonstrates the resonant effects that can take place between a seasoned writer and a beginning one; between a reader and a collection of strong, important writing.”


—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings



“I wish for every reader who opens this book the same feeling I had when I first met Girls Write Now: inspiration.”


—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah



“This year’s anthology celebrates the idea of breaking through boundaries, and nothing could be more exciting than watching these writers do just that.”


—Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train



“When girls write their truth in their particular way, with their particular vibrant edged rhythms and images, the door to the new world opens. Girls Write Now is a breathtaking liberation. The wild birds are flying free.”


—Eve Ensler, playwright and founder of V-Day



“Girls Write Now is an amazing program. Perhaps ‘empowering’ is an overused word, but it couldn’t be more appropriate.”

—AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically

“I can’t overstate how important Girls Write Now is for giving young women a platform to tell their stories.”


—Isaac Fitzgerald, Buzzfeed Books



“I’m delighted and moved to have encountered such talented and vibrant young writers.”


—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven



“What an honor it is to hear the cries, charges, and cheers of a brilliant generation of sister-writers.”>


—Janet Mock, author of Redefining Realness

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