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Silhouette: Bold Lines and Voices from WriteGirl
Winner of Six Book Awards!
Winner, New York Book Festival, Teenage
Winner, International Book Awards, Anthologies, Nonfiction
Winner, London Book Festival, Anthologies
Winner, Los Angeles Book Festival, Nonfiction
Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA BookNews, Poetry Anthologies
Finalist, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Anthologies
Silhouette, the eighth anthology from WriteGirl, captures the unique perspectives of women and girls writing about love, fear, relationships, school, accordions, foreign countries, Los Angeles, pastrami and the world around us. Writing advice throughout the book and an entire chapter with a variety of writing experiments will help you develop and share your own bold voice.
“WriteGirl is essential to helping our young women know how important their thoughts and feelings, not just their looks and bodies, are. Right on, girls – WriteGirl!”
– Nikki Giovanni (poet, Love Poems, Blues: For All the Changes, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea)
"WriteGirl is one of the most inspirational, innovative, charming projects gracing the contemporary literary scene. And Silhouette is one of its finer manifestations. These girls really CAN write!"
– Carolyn See (author, Making a Literary Life)
“Read Silhouette and be dazzled and amazed by the searing insight of these teenage voices. Their passion and talent is extraordinary and uplifting."
– Heather Hach (screenwriter, Freaky Friday, Legally Blonde: The Musical)
“These are breathtaking works that explode with emotional daring, formal elegance and searing honesty. WriteGirl has unleashed a host of exciting new writing voices into our midst. Readers everywhere: take note!”
– Marisa Silver (author, Babe in Paradise, No Direction Home, The God of War)
SPECIAL PRICE: 14.95
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 Listen to Me: Shared Secrets from WriteGirl!
Winner of 5 book awards including First Place, Anthologies,
National Indie Excellence Award
Love, pain, relationships, cravings, neighbors, murder, boredom, mysteries, vegetarians and peacocks are just a few of the subjects inside the pages of Listen to Me: Shared Secrets from WriteGirl. Girls and women confess deeply personal stories and perspectives through carefully-crafted as well as spontaneous gems of poetry, fiction, scenes, songs and essays. An entire chapter offers a variety of writing experiments to help you discover and share your own secrets.
What they’re saying about Listen to Me…
WriteGirl’s wonderful, inspirational anthology belongs in every media center, public library and creative writing class. - VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates ) Book Review, December 2008
Listen to Me is a dazzling chorus of smart, tough, inspired voices of independent-minded young women.
- Carol Muske-Dukes, California Poet Laureate
Listen to Me is blood on paper. Souls on the page. What courage these young writers have, what generosity. - Sarah Fain, TV Executive Producer/Writer (The Shield, The Dollhouse)
I’m always impressed with the insight and courage and skill of the writing, and I love hearing the new voices in these pages. - Robin Swicord, Screenwriter (Memoirs of a Geisha, Jane Austen Book Club)
Winner of 5 book awards including Grand Prize Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards and Best Book Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA Book News
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Winner of 6 Book Awards!
LINES OF VELOCITY: Words That Move
From WriteGirl
The 6th Anthology from WriteGirl Publications, LINES OF VELOCITY is a wondrous and diverse collection - stories, poems, songs, musings,
rants and essays - showcasing the unique and eclectic female voices of new and accomplished writers from WriteGirl.
These girls and women speak freely and share openly on everything from the intensity of a teenager's bad day to the
exhilaration of finding love in urban Los Angeles. Touching on both personal and universal themes in response to the
many worlds they live in, the WriteGirls invite you to spend some time exploring their words that move! Includes writing
experiments from monthly workshops of the WriteGirl season.
"LINES OF VELOCITY sparks with the lively intelligence of gifted young writers discovering the power of language." (Suzanne Lummis, Poet)
"LINES OF VELOCITY is full of magic. Not just the wonder of raw, vivid writing, but also the alchemy of writers,
leaping across age and cultural divides to inspire each other. The resulting work crackles with energy." (Carol Flint, TV writer producer ER, The West Wing)
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WriteGirl's
anthology, UNTANGLED: Stories & Poetry from
the Women and Girls of WriteGirl, is the award winner
for Fiction & Literature: Anthologies in the Best
Books 2006 Book Awards.
UNTANGLED is the 5th anthology from WriteGirl
Publications. UNTANGLED offers a fresh look into
the minds of women and girls with 288 pages of honest
poetry, shocking fiction and emotional nonfiction as
well as inventive tips and a chapter of writing "experiments"
from all the writers. Stephanie Almendarez, 18, muses
over her coming-of-age struggles and revelations. Seventeen-year-old
Shauna Herron explores the role of women in society,
while Melissa Castillo conveys wisdom beyond her 15
years with vivid descriptions of her daily life, including
her grandmother's intoxicating kitchen. In UNTANGLED,
girls take a magnifying glass up to themselves and their
worlds. This book breaks the rules of what writing has
to be - there is a sense of abandonment in the variety
of styles and subjects covered. It's like going on an
adventure since every page takes you somewhere else.
SPECIAL PRICE: 14.95
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New From WriteGirl!
PENS ON FIRE!
Over 200 Creative Writing Experiments!
Great for teachers, schools and groups!
What teachers are saying about Pens on Fire:
“I've searched everywhere on the internet and at teachers' fairs for something like this to help me make creative writing fun and interesting for my class. It's amazing!”
“I've used many experiments from “Pens on Fire” with much success and consider it my "go to" guide when working with kids or even challenging myself.”
SPECIAL PRICE: 24.95
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 Nothing
Held Back: Truth & Fiction from WriteGirl is
a literary adventure like no other. It’s the
fourth anthology published by WriteGirl, a creative
writing and mentoring program matching teen girls
with mentors from the ranks of Los Angeles' most respected
professional women writers. Dramatic in range and
full of startling perspectives, these writers truly
hold nothing back in this compelling collection of
poems, lyrical essays, bold fiction and more. 100%
of proceeds from sales benefit WriteGirl’s creative
writing and mentoring program for high school girls.
SPECIAL PRICE: 14.95
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editorial reviews of this book >
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Pieces of Me: The Voices of WriteGirl,
WriteGirl’s 2004-05 anthology, showcases the
poetry, essays, stories, scenes and lyrics of more
than 100 teenage girls and women writing on love,
family, identity, community and society.
› read reviews
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Bold Ink: Collected
Voices of Women and Girls is a
compilation of writing from girls and women ages
11 through 55. This unique collection of poems,
short stories, essays, songs and scenes addresses
everything from love and war to culture and current
events. As a result of such diverse voices, Bold
Ink provides the reader with insight into the
minds of today’s young women, while celebrating
the art of creative writing like no other anthology.
PRICE: 14.95
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Threads, WriteGirl’s premiere anthology, captures the voices of Los
Angeles women and girls in this powerful collection
of poems, short stories and essays.
CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT
*100 percent of proceeds from sales of
WriteGirl books benefit WriteGirl’s creative writing
and mentoring program for high school girls.
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Critical Praise for WriteGirl
Jamie S. Hansen writes about Listen to Me: Shared Secrets from Write Girl: “The short prose and verse selections are by turns raw, crackling with energy, naïve, knowing, and, above all, deeply personal, revealing the inner lives of strong but vulnerable females. …..WriteGirl’s wonderful, inspirational anthology belongs in every media center, public library, and creative writing class.”
Read the full review from VOYA Library Magazine December 2008
Shannon Peterson writes,
“"[Lines of Velocity] is a dynamic exchange of shared prompts,
ideas, and projects as well as an obvious display of the inspired,
caring, multigenerational relationships that were formed in the process."
Read the full review from School Library Journal March 1, 2008
David Ulin writes:
“[Nothing Held
Back] suggests that reports of literacy’s death
have been greatly exaggerated, that language remains
a transformative force…For these girls (and their
mentors) writing is a lens, a filter, a way to cut through
the nonsense and see the possibilities.”
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Read David Ulin's full review from the L.A. Sunday Times
Book Review.
Featured Article about WriteGirl Publications
•PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
August 28, 2008
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AWARDS FOR WRITEGIRL PUBLICATIONS:
Silhouette
-Winner, New York Book Festival, Teenage
-Winner, International Book Awards, Anthologies, Nonfiction
-Winner, London Book Festival, Anthologies
-Winner, Los Angeles Book Festival, Nonfiction
-Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA BookNews, Poetry Anthologies
-Finalist, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Anthologies
Listen to Me
-First Place, Anthologies, National Indie Excellence Awards
-Silver Medalist, Independent Publisher Awards
-2nd Place, Teenage, San Francisco Book Festival
-Runner Up, New York, Book Festival
-Finalist, ForeWord Magazine
Lines of Velocity
-1st Place, Grand Prize Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards
-1st Place, Teenage, London Book Festival
-Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA Book News
-Silver Medalist, Independent Publisher Book Awards
-Finalist, ForeWord Magazine
-Honorable Mention, New York Festival of Books Awards
-Honorable Mention, New England Books Festival
Untangled
-Winner, National Best Book Awards, -National Best Book Awards, USA Book News
Finalist, ForeWord Magazine
-Honorable Mention, London Book Festival
Nothing Held Back
-Winner, Writers Notes Magazine Book Award
-Honorable Mention, Independent Publisher Awards
Pieces of Me
-Finalist, Independent Publisher Awards
Bold Ink
-Finalist, ForeWord Magazine
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