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New from WriteGirl!
 Intensity: The 10th Anniversary Anthology from WriteGirl
INTENSITY presents creative work by more than 140 writers, including stories, poetry, lyrics, and novel excerpts. Get inspired by their candid writing advice throughout the book, and work your way to the closing chapter full of writing experiments.
* Winner, Anthologies, 2011 London Book Festival
* Honorable Mention, 2011 New England book Festival
* Finalist, Anthologies: Nonfiction, 2011 USA Best Books Awards
“These girls started with a few words and the seed of an idea. With WriteGirl's encouragement, each girl allowed the words to keep coming until her idea grew into an essay, a story, or a poem. What do writers do? They write. And how lucky we are to have these writers' words to inspire us!”
– Carole King, GRAMMY Award-winning singer and songwriter
“The work of these young women reminds me what it's like to be young. Their voices are clear and passionate, carefully observant and exuberant. They celebrate their friends, their neighborhoods, new love, and mourn the losses from which their youth can't shield them. They tell the truth.”
– Terry Wolverton, author
SPECIAL PRICE: 19.95
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 Beyond Words: The Creative Voices of WriteGirl
Beyond Words is the ninth anthology from WriteGirl. More than 150 teen girls and professional women writers share their diverse perspectives and stories about family, identity, friendship, love, music, loss and more in this unique collection. From poignant poetry to breakup lyrics to an essay on finding meaning within a shag carpet, Beyond Words unveils a broad range of confident and fresh voices.
The book concludes with a full chapter of innovative writing activities and advice for aspiring writers at any level.
BEYOND WORDS has 7 book awards including:
*Winner, International Book Awards, Anthologies, Non-Fiction
*Winner, National Indie Excellence Awards, Anthology
*Winner, London Book Festival, Anthologies
*Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA BookNews, Poetry
“Powerful and strong, raw and vulnerable – these are the voices of girls who demand to be heard.”
– Kami Garcia, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Creatures
“Beyond Words is an anthology alive with discovery, humor, and a keen examination of the world through the written word."
– Sholeh Wolpe, poet, Rooftops of Tehran
SPECIAL PRICE: 14.95
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Silhouette: Bold Lines and Voices from WriteGirl
 Winner of Seven Book Awards!
1st Place, National Indie Excellence Awards, Anthologies
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
Silhouette, the eighth anthology from WriteGirl, captures the perspectives of women and girls writing about love, fear, relationships, school, accordions, foreign countries, Los Angeles, pastrami and the world around us. Writing advice and 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)
“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 Grand Prize Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards and Best Book Winner, National Best Book Awards, USA Book News
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. An entire chapter offers a variety of writing experiments to help you discover and share your own secrets.
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)
SPECIAL PRICE: 14.95
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Lines of Velocity: Words That Move
Winner of 6 Book Awards! 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. Includes writing
experiments from monthly workshops of the WriteGirl season.
"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
SPECIAL PRICE: 14.95
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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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 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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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.
PRICE: 14.95
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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: “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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