Shards of Me by Neha Vimal

Home 9 Theme 9 Project Category: Family Neha Vimal, age 13 I was inspired in a WriteGirl workshop by poet Lynne Thompson’s poem using different phrases that don’t really fit together in a traditional way. I wanted to write something that delivered who I am,...

Building Humankind by Victoria Jonsson

Home 9 Project Category: Type of Writer ( Page 4 ) Victoria Jonsson, age 17 I wrote this poem after participating in a WriteGirl workshop and gaining a lot of inspiration from the ideas of “becoming” that we discussed. It is based upon my response to a lot of...

The Other Side by Marissa Cueva

“In this scene, written for the WriteGirl character and dialogue workshop, Jackson is a seventeen-year-old terminal cancer patient. Ruby, sixteen, is a more serious girl whose brother is a patient in the same hospital.”