Ctrl + B

Be bright. Be brash. Be bold. This is Ctrl + B: The Girls Write Now 2019 Anthology in which softness is strength, words are power, and art is revolution. For more than twenty years, Girls Write Now has been a nationally award-winning leader in arts education, matching underserved young women with professional women writers and digital media makers as their personal mentors. Girls Write Now welcomes these brave and bold young women into a supportive community and provides them with tools to discover and unleash their truest selves through the written word. The work in these pages demonstrates the passion, creativity, and unique insight of these young women. Their voices—ringing out through memoirs, poems, screenplays, and everything between—will rise up and change the world. With the brilliant work of these authors and the bonus writing exercises included in the back of the book, readers will open their minds to consider one bold question: “What will you Ctrl + B?”