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WriteGirl Publications offers award-winning anthologies that showcase the bold voices and imaginative insights of teens and their WriteGirl mentors. The books present a diverse collection of personal stories, poetry, essays, scenes and lyrics, as well as innovative writing experiments for writers of all levels. All WriteGirl books include writing activities to spark your own creativity!

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WriteGirl books have won 100 national and international book awards!

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$14.25+

What’s Behind the Blue Door?

  • WriteGirl has partnered with Chronicle Books to produce an inspiring creativity journal featuring 75 writing activities and 50 writing tips to help take your writing to the next level! What’s Behind the Blue Door? includes 160 pages of writing prompts with illustrations and plenty of space to write.

    Click to learn more about What’s Behind the Blue Door?

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This Moment: Bold Voices from WriteGirl

$19.95

  • Featuring a foreword by actor and bestselling author Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls). In This Moment, 180 teens share stories, poems, memoirs, scripts and songs that inspire reflection and ignite action. They write about their hopes and fears, loves and losses, amigas and pan dulce, as they navigate a challenging present and uncertain future with determination and grace.

    “This Moment is a collection that can be read in one sitting or savored bit by bit. Whatever the method of entry, the book is a treasure, worth being cherished and shared with girls everywhere. In total, it is a celebration of life and a quiet reflection on darkness in a word, inspiring.”
    – Vivian Turnbull, Foreword Reviews

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You Are Here: The WriteGirl Journey

$19.95

  • If life were a straight line, it would be easy to stay on course. But life is full of twists and turns and unexpected bumps. In YOU ARE HERE: The WriteGirl Journey, 161 women and girls share their stories as they navigate their way through small moments and big adventures. In clear and unwavering voices, they tell us about where they are, where they’ve been and where they still hope to go. So climb in, adjust your rear view mirror, toss your GPS out the window and let this book be a passport to your own unexpected journey.

    “The writing these girls produce is sharp and visceral, yet full of grace and insight.
    How lucky we are to share in their gift.”
    – Meg Jackson, screenwriter, Boardwalk Empire

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Pens on Fire: Creative Writing Experiments

$24.95

  • Pens on Fire is a creative writing guide for teachers and youth leaders. Featuring more than 200 creative writing experiments. 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!” 

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No Character Limit

$19.95

  • Between texting and tweeting, it may seem that “real” writing has gone out the window. But it hasn’t. No Character Limit features the creative work and candid voices of over 125 writers in one emotionally charged volume. Enjoy their quirky humor; experience the universal pain and exhilaration of young love; and dive into the changing lives of these bold writers.

    “In this book, what these girls have to say makes us laugh at times, and other times, makes us want to cry. But their words always make us believe. These girls understand the power of words.”

    - Meg Cabot, author, The Princess Diaries

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Intensity: The 10th Anniversary Anthology

$14.95

  • 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.

    “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

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Beyond Words: The Creative Voices of WriteGirl

$14.95

  • Beyond Words is the ninth anthology from WriteGirl. More than 150 teens and professional women writers share their diverse perspectives and stories about family, identity, friendship, love, music, loss and more in this unique collection.

    “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

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Silhouette: Bold Lines & Voices from WriteGirl

$14.95

  • 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, Blues: For All the Changes)

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Listen to Me: Shared Secrets from WriteGirl

$14.95

  • 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. 

    Jamie S. Hansen writes about Listen to Me: Shared Secrets from WriteGirl:

    “WriteGirl’s wonderful, inspirational anthology belongs in every media center, public library, and creative writing class.”


    – VOYA Library Magazine December 2008

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Lines of Velocity: Words that Move from WriteGirl

$14.95

  • The sixth 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. 

    "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

    Shannon Peterson writes in School Library Journal:

    “[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."

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Bold Ink: Collected Voices of Women + Girls

$14.95

  • Bold Ink is a unique collection of poems, short stories, essays, songs and scenes addressing everything from love and war to culture and current events. This was the second book published by WriteGirl Publications, and there are only a few copies available!

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Sound Generation: The Resonant VOices of Teen Girls

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Emotional Map of Los Angeles

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Untangled: Stories & Poetry

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Nothing Held Back: The Voices of WriteGirl

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Pieces of Me: The Voices of WriteGirl

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Threads: Spring 2002

Lines and Breaks

The WriteGirl Online Literary Journal

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WriteGirl has launched an online literary journal featuring writing from WriteGirl teens and alums!