We couldn’t resist one last Pop-Up YARN before our official 2015 season opening in April—partly because we’ve always sent our readers a Valentine (and following tradition, this first poem is an anti-Valentine of sorts), and partly because this second poem evokes winter so strongly and beautifully, we couldn’t bear to publish it when the weather warms.
Coming Soon!
Jacqueline Woodson! Kwame Alexander! YARN’s 5th Anniversary! National Poetry Month! A Contest!
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Nominees for the 2015 Pushcart Prize
Hello! We hope you are having a happy holiday season. We’re taking another short break from our official break to let you know our nominees for the 2105 Pushcart Prize anthology. For those of you who might not know it, the Pushcarts are the foremost, and most venerable, anthology for small journals. They pick some of […]
NEW STAFFERS!
Wow, it’s taken waaaaaayyyy longer for me to post this than I thought it would but, we have TEN–count them, 10!!!–new YARN staffers! Readers and Social Media folks both. Whew.
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Pop-Up YARN: Missing Person
Okay, I know we’re not supposed to bring you anything new till April, but we couldn’t resist bringing you this very dark story by Lelac Almagor in October, the month of shorter days and ghosts. Enjoy!
Doree Schultz raised her hand in class and said she was gonna write about a boy who never knew his own father. Everyone rolled their eyes or sucked their teeth because that was Doree for you […]
“Into the Vast” Wins SCBWI Magazine Merit Award!!!
We are so excited to announce that “Into the Vast” by Laura Williams McCaffrey has won the Magazine Merit Award for Fiction! The Magazine Merit awards are given by the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) every year in the categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Illustration. Last year, “Swimming Naked” was awarded […]
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Fiction
Winterim
A January Pop-Up! Because, you know, we like our readers.
Lynn Vande Stouwe
The second week in January was Winterim, during which students at our second-rate private school could purchase a week of self-discovery for approximately one thousand dollars: camping with Hopi Indians in Arizona, building sweat lodges in Honduras. Most popular were trips […]
Fiction
Pop-Up YARN: Missing Person
Okay, I know we’re not supposed to bring you anything new till April, but we couldn’t resist bringing you this very dark story by Lelac Almagor in October, the month of shorter days and ghosts. Enjoy!
Doree Schultz raised her hand in class and said she was gonna write about a boy who never knew his own father. Everyone rolled their eyes or sucked their teeth because that was Doree for you […]
Fiction
“Into the Vast” Wins SCBWI Magazine Merit Award!!!
We are so excited to announce that “Into the Vast” by Laura Williams McCaffrey has won the Magazine Merit Award for Fiction! The Magazine Merit awards are given by the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) every year in the categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Illustration. Last year, “Swimming Naked” was awarded […]
Interviews
Interview with Ellen Conford!
This is Kerri here, seizing this AMAZING opportunity to introduce one of my literary heroes, Ellen Conford. When I was a tween and teen, I devoured as much Ellen Conford as I could lay my hands on. At the library, at sidewalk sales, and in bookstores, I would look for her name and when I found new titles, I would immediately place the book in my bag. […]
Fiction
Ellen Conford’s Classic “If This Is Love, I’ll Take Spaghetti”
“If This Is Love, I’ll Take Spaghetti” is the title story of a collection of wise, hilarious YA short fiction all written by Ellen Conford, and published in 1983. We think you’ll agree that it more than stands the test of time (although kale has certainly come a long way in thirty-one years!). You can still order an old copy just like the one Kerri had on her bedside table for years, or […]
Fiction
One in the Belly
By the amazing Steve Brezenoff
Fuck fuck fuck fuck . . .
“Wait,” I say through my clenched teeth, and I shift around on the floor and grab at the bunched-up beach towel under me. It doesn’t do a great job making the tiles of the third-floor girls’ bathroom comfortable.
“Christ, Jelly!” Izzy snaps at me as she flinches. Jelly, by the way, is me. […]
Fiction
Tomorrow I’ll Miss You
By Catey Miller
Joshua, Texas is officially a Ghost Town. We exceeded the legal limit for the ghost-to-people ratio last night. It’s not a big deal—it’s not like you can do much to drive a ghost out, or threaten one; no one’s doing violence to them, obviously. But in most cases […]
Fiction
The Last Good Thing
By S. Alexander
“Hey, Adam. New shoes?”
The sound of Naomi’s voice cutting into the quiet of my back-yard scares the ever-loving shit out of me.
“Jesus.” I startle, grabbing onto the rusty chain of the old swing I’m sitting idle on so I don’t fall. I’ve been poking at a huge-ass blister on my heel and it feels like an intrusion on an oddly private moment between me and my foot. […]
Fiction
Drowners
By Lauren Wiser
The summer I turned seventeen was my second year lifeguarding at the Village Pool in Millstadt, Illinois, and I still hadn’t saved anyone. Kurt Zoller claimed he saved someone, once— a young girl trying to reach the bottom of the twelve-foot—but Kurt was in college and had worked there much longer. I mostly just sat around on the stand […]
Fiction
Asian Cinderella
By Linda M.C. Nguyen
My dad was a stern believer that I shouldn’t date until I was done with school and had what he called a stable job. By job, he secretly hoped I would become a medical doctor. So imagine my dilemma when a handsome boy suddenly asked me to prom. I told my parents I was going with a group of friends instead.
Then, to make matters worse, Dad offered to drive me to prom. […]
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