By Adhithi Anjali
Starting tomorrow, November 1, Yellow Arrow Publishing will fire up our 2023 social media fundraiser: Blazing the Path Forward. Yellow Arrow is a nonprofit organization established to support, inspire, and publish women-identifying writers. Women’s voices have historically been underrepresented in literature, and we aim to elevate those voices and stories through our programs and publications. It is our hope that providing more opportunities for women to participate in the literary arts will stimulate social change by expanding literary norms. For every writer who gets published, there are a hundred more with equally valuable stories to tell.
With Blazing the Path Forward, we will provide writing prompts throughout November about creating, writing, and using poetry and prose to capture movement and growth. Prompts will be posted every Monday and Wednesday afternoon. Just in case you miss any of the prompts, you can find weekly recaps on Fridays. We would love for everyone to share the prompts and, if feeling adventurous, their own responses. Write alongside us in the Comments or in your own posts using the hashtag #YAPForward. Make sure to tag Yellow Arrow as well so we can see what you write.
We hope to bring awareness to Yellow Arrow programs and publications through this initiative and encourage community members to donate to support our mission.
If you are unable to donate, please share our posts and prompts to help spread the word about Yellow Arrow. We are so grateful for the continued support from our authors and our community and are especially happy to use Blazing the Path Forward as an opportunity to spark, strengthen, and build our relationships with the writing world, in Baltimore and beyond. We at Yellow Arrow are so excited to see what our community does with Blazing the Path Forward.
Make sure you take advantage of the creative energy of November and write with us. We hope these prompts inspire you to grab your pen (or Google Doc) and write freely and honestly. For yourself, for your friends and family. For your community. Thank you for supporting independent publishing.
Our three Yellow Arrow fall 2023 interns have worked hard on this fundraiser, and we are so appreciative of their time and thoughtfulness. Thank you Adhithi, Samantha, and Beverly for making this happen, and thank you Adhithi for spearheading Blazing the Path Forward.
Adhithi Anjali is the fall business development intern. She is a third-year student at the University of California, Davis, majoring in English and comparative literature. Samantha Pomerantz is the fall publications intern. She is a writer and a student at Elon University, class of 2024. Finally, Beverly Yirenkyi is the fall program management intern. She is a current honors undergraduate student at Towson University, majoring in philosophy. You can learn more about Adhithi, Samantha, and Beverly in another blog later in November.
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Yellow Arrow Publishing is a nonprofit supporting women writers through publication and access to the literary arts. You can support us as we SPARK and sparkle this year: purchase one of our publications from the Yellow Arrow bookstore, join our newsletter, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or subscribe to our YouTube channel. Donations are appreciated via PayPal (staff@yellowarrowpublishing.com), Venmo (@yellowarrowpublishing), or US mail (PO Box 65185, Baltimore, Maryland 21209). More than anything, messages of support through any one of our channels are greatly appreciated.