What would you tell your earlier self?
Dispatch from Daybreak is a collection of letters written by womxn to their earlier selves; the things they wished they’d known and the things that are still to come.
Recent Dispatches
What People Are Saying
Laura Benanti
Tony Award-winning actress and singer
“The letter writing exercises on Dispatch from Daybreak are an invaluable way for women to begin to process and share their stories. Writing your own story can be daunting and feels impossible to begin, but Annie makes it approachable for anyone, regardless of writing experience.”
Beth Newell
Creator of Reductress
"Dispatch from Daybreak is powerfully cathartic reading. These letters acknowledge the struggle of the human experience and the hope that it often does get better."
Kate Spencer
Host of Forever35,
author of The Dead Moms Club
"Dispatch from Daybreak not only provides comfort to readers, but empowers them as well."
Samara Bay
Speech coach and host of Permission to Speak on iHeartRadio
“Those lonely nights, those new body parts, those wild power struggles with sticky little hands, those tough negotiations and re-negotiations with our spouses and our bosses and ourselves about what we're willing to do and what we're not, about who we are now and who we've been. Dispatch from Daybreak gives us a chance to write and rewrite our own story. And every woman I know has a story that should be told, and owned, and witnessed. For the solidarity, for the space, for the voices rising and hearing each other, I'm SO grateful this site exists.”
Jane Borden
Journalist
and author of I Totally Meant to Do That
“There’s so much optimism in these letters, as if these women could actually reach their younger selves. In a way, they can. For we are all those younger women: Ready to benefit from each other’s wisdom and always growing toward daybreak.”