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A Literary Magazine by the Youth and for the Youth
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"A Guide For Men: What Does It Really Mean To Be On Your Period?" by Tula Jiménez Singer
I was ten and eight months when I got my first period. The night before I’d felt a twitch in my stomach, and a slice of sadness wrapped...
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May 16, 20214 min read
Featured Writer: Samar Jain
I’m Grateful Today and everyday I’m grateful for the primeval forests, scarlet flowers and rampant trees… fruits, petals and lush green...
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May 15, 20212 min read
Featured Writer: Jolie Barnard
A Confession I write love letters on tattered pages When the owls awake and the mice have burrowed into the thawing soil to rest their...
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May 14, 20213 min read
Featured Writer: Udita Mukherjee
The Constant Best I talk to you some days Other days you’re not there Then I’m alone with my thoughts It gets dark in the mornings You...
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May 12, 20212 min read
Featured Writer: Lilia Collins
Hope The darkness is like a shallow, shady hole, This hole acts as a claw trap. The shadow swallows you up and you’re stuck, Stuck in...
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May 10, 20211 min read
"Triumph to Last" by Trini Feng - Campaign Contest Fiction Winner
Previously published in Bluefire's Anthology Summer’s colors, all too often, threatened to blind Ada. For the past few years, it had been...
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May 8, 20214 min read
"how to take the perfect selfie: a tutorial" by Sal Kang - Campaign Contest Poetry Winner
1 wear something tight but not too tight are you sure you want so much skin in the frame not that we want...
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May 8, 20212 min read
"It's All About Eyes" by S. McKiernan - Campaign Contest Nonfiction Winner
The question “What is it like to be a girl?” falls in the same category of questions like: what does sweet and sour sauce taste like?...
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May 8, 20213 min read
Who is Jon Batiste and where did he come from? - By SaraJane Devereaux
Who is Jon Batiste? More recently, you might’ve been scrolling on YouTube, Instagram, or literally any social outlet, and you might’ve...
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May 6, 20214 min read
"LINDSAY LOHAN WAS MY CHILDHOOD HERO" by Holly Zijderveld
And I know, that doesn’t sound particularly positive. As a kid, the 1998 of ‘The Parent Trap’, starring Lindsay Lohan, was my absolute...
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Apr 27, 20215 min read
Featured Writer - Brady Mondry
The Green House There are transparent tulips that walk with me, that crawl with me, that line every wall I see. If you aren’t looking,...
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Apr 27, 20211 min read
Magazines open to submissions!
Here is a list of literary magazines accepting submissions. I hope this helps those who are looking for a home for their pieces. Please...
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Apr 24, 20213 min read
Featured Writer: Dia Bhojwani
old friends, new strangers Hello, Stranger! You have the face of someone I used to love. Really, the resemblance is uncanny - The cotton...
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Apr 22, 20211 min read
"Funding bookstores, why we need to read, and more!" by SaraJane Devereaux
According to Google, 54% of students under the age of 12 read less than 15 minutes per day and read less than 15 books per year. 18% of...
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Apr 20, 20214 min read
"Okay Google, What Does It Mean to Dream About Converting to Judaism?" by David Salazar
I never put much stock into dreams until I was fourteen years old and dreamt about converting to Judaism. My family has a tricky history...
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Apr 18, 20215 min read
Featured Writer: Halle Preneta
Green She is green; A mix of blue, the color of serenity, (the water that flows in my body whenever I see her), and yellow, the color of...
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Apr 14, 20211 min read
Featured Writer: Michael Kharadze
Fluke It was the end of July. While every other reasonably hard-working student was out on a vacation somewhere, I was sitting in the...
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Apr 8, 20214 min read
Featured Writer: Tanvi Jain
The Trader of Memories I asked a stranger I met on the street, Will you share memories with me? I have many and many a kind, Of love and...
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Apr 6, 20211 min read
Featured Writer: Ananya Thakur
what is love i wonder what is love i wonder is it the fluttering in my stomach when i read your pretty words or the tears that brim at...
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Apr 6, 20211 min read
Featured Writer: Isabel Corson
A Drought of Ichor When Gaia laid her bed of green Right down upon the Earth, She had such hopes for nature’s gifts And new life to be...
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Apr 5, 20211 min read
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