Lucrezia Magazine

It’s 1 AM and Stephanie’s been out all night. Her and her “crew” (a group of women she went to college with) have been club hopping and have stopped in at an all night breakfast diner.

In the last five to seven years, charity anthologies have gone the same way of charity calendars, gaining in popularity, to serve many charities. From Hurricane Katrina to War Child, Breast cancer to AIDS, charity anthologies tend to focus on certain genres, inviting writers to take part to raise social awareness and funds. Initially doubted by large publishers, charity anthologies like Girls Night In (1 and 2), Gentleman by Invitation, Big Night Out and Kids Night In, have raised substantial amounts for charities such as War Child. New Beginnings, spearheaded by UK literary agent Jonny Geller in conjunction with Bloomsbury, gathered the world's noted fiction writers to provide their first chapters, to raise money for the ACEH Tsunami.