What is NDN Girls Book Club?

NDN Girls Book Club is a 501 (c)3 literary organization that hosts free community workshops for Native people, especially Native youth & girls, in poetry, zine-making, editing, fiction, nonfiction, and Native literature talks.

We aim to make accessibility to quality Indigenous literature a reality for all ages by sending out free books and literary care packages.

We have distributed over 15,000 free books by Native authors across Turtle Island.

Read more about our recent journey across the Navajo and Hopi Nations.

Plus:

500+ FREE care packages for Native youth. Supported Indigenous indie bookstores.

Sent free books to tribal libraries.

♡ what’s new? ♡

News
For Immediate Release:
For Immediate Release:

“Yiłta: I read it!”—the First of its Kind Native Book Drop Tour is Coming to the Navajo Nation this Spring

INTRODUCING: Yiłta! Book Drop
INTRODUCING: Yiłta! Book Drop

NDN GIRLS BOOK CLUB ANNOUNCED 10,000 FREE BOOKS TO BE SHARED ON NAVAJO NATION…

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MEET OUR NEW YOUTH MENTOR!
NDN Girls Book Club x Santa Fe 2023
NDN Girls Book Club x Santa Fe 2023

NDN Girls Book Club popped up with Shy Natives and OXDX Clothing at SWAIA!

Northern Arizona Book Festival to feature NDN Girls Book Club
Northern Arizona Book Festival to feature NDN Girls Book Club
NDN Girls Book Club featured in Teen Vogue!
NDN Girls Book Club featured in Teen Vogue!
Brick Literary Journal interviews Billy-Ray Belcourt
Brick Literary Journal interviews Billy-Ray Belcourt

Brick Podcast interviews Billy-Ray Belcourt. Billy-Ray reads his piece “Cree Girl Explodes the Necropolis of Ottawa,” talks about winning the Griffin Poetry Prize, writing as resistance, and coming out to his kookum as queer.

All My Relations: Indigenous Artist to Artist
All My Relations: Indigenous Artist to Artist

All My Relations Podcast interviews artists in Indigenous Artist to Artist (Part 1): Adapting To Pandemic… Listen here!

Abalone Mountain Press interviews co-editors of the Diné Reader
Abalone Mountain Press interviews co-editors of the Diné Reader

Abalone Mountain Press interviews co-editors of the Diné Reader (University of Arizona Press) Esther Belin, Laura Tohe (former Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation), Byron Aspaas, and Nia Francisco.

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