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Founded in 1998, Girls Write Now is New York’s first writing and mentoring organization for girls, and one of the nation’s top after school programs as distinguished twice by the White House and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Our teens have performed their original work at Lincoln Center and the United Nations, published in Newsweek, ELLE India, Huffington Post and our award-wining anthology, and earned hundreds of prestigious Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Check us out on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and Tumblr.

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A Daughter’s Love of Her Father Can’t Be Locked Up

By: Ashley Christie | October 21, 2015
From our partner Girls Write Now

Teen Ashley Christie struggles with having a dad who is in prison. She said part of the reason she wrote this essay was to “allow him to be a part of my life.”

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Teen Accepts Hair as Part of Awesome Self

By: Tiana Zuniga | September 23, 2015
From our partner Girls Write Now

Tiana Zuniga wrote about beauty for the Girls Write Now anthology, “Voice to Voice: Girls Write Now’s 2015 Anthology,” because “definitions of beauty change, and that puts pressure on people to constantly change the way they look.”

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Teen’s Journey of Acceptance More Than Skin Deep

By: Rachel Aghanwa | August 10, 2015
From our partner Girls Write Now

It was always hard for Girls Write Now teen Rachel Aghanwa to write about her race but then an ad she saw while traveling in Nigeria made her realize she should see herself as a blessing, instead of a curse.

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Autism is Capability for Teen, not Disability

By: Charlene Vasquez | July 22, 2015
From our partner Girls Write Now

Writer Charlene Vasquez calls her voice “my advocate for autism.” The piece below originally appeared in “Voice to Voice: Girls Write Now’s 2015 Anthology.”

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