Silhouette: Bold Lines & Voices from WriteGirl

by Keren Taylor (Editor)

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.

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

“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)

274 pages, Paperback

First published January 24, 2010

About the author

Keren Taylor is the Executive Director of WriteGirl and Executive Editor of 15 WriteGirl publications, which have collectively won 91 national and international book awards. A poet, songwriter, performer, and visual artist, she has conducted hundreds of creative writing workshops for teens and adults, and has led staff development workshops on literacy programming for the California School-age Consortium, California Department of Education, Los Angeles County Office of Education, Guiding Lights Festival, LA's BEST and the New York Partnership for After School Education, among others. Her poetry has appeared in many literary journals as including SO LUMINOUS THE WILDFLOWERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA POETS from Tebot Bach Press. An assemblage artist and mosaicist, her artwork is featured on the book covers of WriteGirl's award-winning anthologies.

Reviews

[Stacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

it is so inspiring