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SAMORI COVINGTON

YEARS AS MENTEE: 4

GRADE: Senior

HIGH SCHOOL: Millennium Brooklyn High School

BORN: Brooklyn, NY

LIVES: Brooklyn, NY

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITIONS: I got accepted to my first-choice college.

MENTEE’S ANECDOTE: As Girls Write Now comes to an end for me this year, I have realized that my writing has come a long way. As a freshman I always tried to make people laugh, but as I got older, I wanted to write more about social issues. I am a four-year mentee, and looking back, I remember spending a whole year being obsessed with writing science fiction. To me, this piece ties everything together—the science and the social issues.

BROOKE BOREL

YEARS AS MENTOR: 4

OCCUPATION: Journalist and Author

BORN: Topeka, KS

LIVES: Brooklyn, NY

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITIONS: My second book published in 2016, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking (University of Chicago Press). I also had a year-long fellowship with the Alicia Patterson Foundation.

MENTOR’S ANECDOTE: When I first started Girls Write Now four years ago, I was paired with a freshman—Samori! Our time together has flown by. I am so happy to see her moving on to college, but it’s also bittersweet for me because I will greatly miss our weekly meetings. Every year, Samori has explored new genres: from humor writing to science fiction to socially conscious essays and poems. In this last piece, she wanted to combine all of these interests, so we tackled futuristic political satire.