10 years of Yellow Arrow
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10 years of Yellow Arrow ✩
help us write change into the world.
Support our 10 year anniversary campaign.
Our ten year anniversary campaign is a call to action for anyone who believes in the power of storytelling. Support for our campaign is support for women-identifying writers across Baltimore and beyond.
What we achieve together can be infinite. Limitless. Unending.
Boundless.
Why give?
Hear what our writers have to say.
“Yellow Arrow was the first journal to publish my writing. Ever. It’s difficult to express what it felt like to receive that acceptance email. Quite simply it changed my life. My piece being accepted gave me the confidence to continue to "dare to write", and I haven't stopped believing in myself since.”
~ Keshni Naicker Washington
“Women’s stories are so often flattened into tropes—the fawning girlfriend, the overwhelmed mother, the sad divorcée. Through Yellow Arrow, I’ve found a place where women’s voices are treated with the depth and nuance they deserve, where our stories can be both unique and shared, raw and true. It’s reminded me how vital it is that we tell our own stories in our own words.”
~ Laura Taber
Giving FAQs
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It began with the binding of a book.
In 2016, Yellow Arrow was founded with a dream of uplifting the voices of women-identifying writers. In the beginning, the small but mighty team hand-bound the books, starting with Yellow Arrow’s first literary collection, Yellow Arrow Journal, Vol. I., which was released in July 2017. In that first edition, founder Gwen Van Velsor invited the reader to join us on a JOURNEY, the theme for the first issue.
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The team has grown in size and heart over the years, each contributing member of our staff or board embodying all that Yellow Arrow’s initial mission intended to embrace, now having championed the words of over 500 women-identifying writers. By 2026, Yellow Arrow will have published over 40 books.
A donation to our campaign can support our work, sponsor a writer, or champion a sustaining event.
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We’ve been fortunate to have financial support from incredible local and state organizations, but now, arts funding is being challenged across the nation. We don’t yet know how this will fully impact us, but we have faith that the passion and generosity of our community will guide us on the path forward. Our ten year anniversary campaign is a call to action for anyone who believes in the power of storytelling. Support for our campaign is support for women-identifying writers across Baltimore and beyond.
What we achieve together can be infinite. Limitless. Unending.
Boundless.