Fifteen – by Katherine B., age 15

I wrote this at the WriteGirl Poetry Workshop.

Fifteen is:
protons collide
chemicals react
exploring the taboo

Fifteen is:
puppy love paradise
predecessor of your first real heartbreak
the end of the world as you know it

Fifteen is:
finding refuge in Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet
every love song written just for you

Fifteen is:
giving your heart and soul
to a boy
who would rather play Halo

Fifteen is:
learning from your past
mapping out your future
knowing where you want to go
clueless as to how to get there

 

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This poem was published in our most recent anthology, Beyond Words: The Creative Voices of WriteGirl.  100% of the proceeds from our book sales support the WriteGirl program.  Buy a copy here.

Beyond Words, Ready to Launch! – Ashley L., WriteGirl Alumna

It’s that time of the year again! Join us at Borders in Hollywood for WriteGirl’s 10^th Anniversary Book Launch! Our newest anthology, Beyond Words: The Creative Voices of WriteGirl, features the bold voices of more than 100 teens and women.

To help celebrate this special event, we welcome New York Times Bestselling authors Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures), Cecil Castelucci (Rose Sees Red), The Simpsons’ Mimi Kennedy, and Marcia Wallace (Due Date and Private Practice). And of course what would a WriteGirl Book Launch be without WriteGirls? Alumni and current mentees are slated to perform their pieces from the anthology.

When: This Saturday, January 15, 2011 2:00pm-3:00pmW
Where: Border’s Books and Music
1510 Vine St. (at Sunset)
Why: If you like reading, writing, and women, you’ll love women reading their writing.

See you there!

Dinner

by Janelle Fine, age 18

Excerpted from “Silhouette: Bold Lines & Voices from WriteGirl”

 

Dinner

 

A rusty knife and rotten peach

chewed up words at the dinner table

crisp white linen

 

I saw verbs and nouns

displayed on bone-white China

 

how they devoured sin

like crunching through glass with teeth

or drinking hot-blooded champagne

I chewed my sandwich slowly

 

and I remember

I still remember the look on her face

when she walked in

 

all that was left of me was a torn

and wrinkled piece of skin

 

 

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