Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Fall Treats Poem Drive & Contest! We enjoyed reading all of your delicious poems. They made is so hungry for things we didn’t even know we were craving! Though it was tough to pick one, we selected Deborah Rocheleau’s ode to homemade bread.
Two librarians, one teen, a former staffer returns … We’ve made some really exciting and excellent additions to the YARN family recently, all of whom you can read about on our recently updated masthead. [...]
It’s that time of year again! Time for YARN’s 3rd Annual Fall Treats Poem Drive & Contest!
Celebrate fall! Win a $25 gift certificate!
We love this opportunity to collect poems that celebrate all the yummy things we enjoy in the fall–in fact, Kerri is dreaming of a pumpkin spice latte as she types this! [...]
From her highly lauded novels, “Mostly Good Girls” to “Past Perfect” and her most recent (out September 17!) “This Song Will Save Your Life,” Leila Sales knows how to capture the mindset of a teenage girl who wants to figure out how the world works in her own unique way, at her pace, with mistakes and heartbreak and love and music and academics and ice cream all mixed together. [...]
When autumn comes, we look forward to new colors, smells, treats quickly follow. And fresh YARN.
Our fall season is brimming with rebellious fiction, finely wrought teen poetry, the real-life existential dilemmas of being a fangirl–and that’s just by the writers you don’t know (yet)!
Note from Kerri: As the second Hunger Games movie heads to the big screen this holiday season, I thought I’d be provocative and repost this. New comments welcome!
[...] This is the Blockbuster-or-Bust mentality in action. [...] Blockbuster-or-Bust is BAD FOR WRITERS. [...]
By Noah Weisz
[...] And then, with a jolt, Sarah realized that sooner or later the police would find this man. This stranger, who was older by far than any human she had ever seen, older than nature usually allowed—certainly older than any of the stories she had ever been told, older than the history she was taught in school. He was practically from another world. They would string him up in the square [...]
By Layla Carr
She sat in the desk closest to the window, at the end of the third row. Her eyes were big and dark and her fingers were constantly moving—running over the surface of her desk, tapping her pencil, pushing through her hair. When we went around on the first day of European History [...]
Two poems by teen writer Alison Rollman
A Poet to Her Poetry
Inspired by Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book”
I create an ice-rink fantasy world//
With the flick of my pencil,//
The snub of my burnt-out, blackened eraser bit,//
The chit-chatter//
Of my cereal crumb computer keys. […}
By Cheryl Lawton Malone
Image of a Dog
Two boys and a girl//
on a beach//
walking their dog,//
not far from the missiles,//
that promise to cut//
their feet like slivered shells. [...]
Jenny Torres Sanchez’s novels “The Downside of Being Charlie,” and her most recent, “Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia” combine humor and heart to combat death, growing up, and change in new, original perspectives with a massive side of music.
YARN is beyond pleased to share with you this original short story by Jenny, “Push Up.”
Chanchito’s pops got cuffed and hauled away today. The whole neighborhood saw it. But, s’nothing new. We used to seeing cops. We used to seeing our parents dragged outta here [...]
Get those Halloween treats ready to accompany you as you read this creepy thrill of a story by Colleen Britton.
I lie on my side, losing the feeling in my right arm. I can’t see Dad, but I feel the pressure as he squeezes my hand. I didn’t ask him to come, but I’m glad he did. I try to squeeze back with deadened fingers that don’t move. [...]
By Eileen Donovan Kranz
[...] The first thing Cheez Whiz broke after that was my arm. He told my mom he didn’t mean to do it, but my mom saw the whole thing from the window overlooking the backyard while she was rinsing the dishes to put in the dishwasher. [...]
We’re always happy to get new submissions from YARN alums, and we were so glad when Anna Levine came back to us with two quite different poems this fall!
Modest Goddess
Caught in the nude//
by an intruder,//
she tries to hide [...]
Book titles are an under-discussed art-form. You glance at them as the vibrancy, colors, and images of the covers overwhelm your senses; yet there are some book titles you cannot escape. “The Paradox of Vertical Flight” by debut YA author Emil Ostrovski is one of those.
YARN is thrilled to share with you “So Many Pieces,” an original short story by [...]
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts
My Father’s Bookstore
Every morning he//
rushes to shave the brown stubble//
from his face//
pulls on a clean white collared shirt//
gulps down his steaming black coffee [...]
We know you’ll love this hilarious, confessional essay by high school senior Kathryn Fitzpatrick.
My first boy crush was on Adam Lambert. It was seventh grade. It was an awkward time. [...]
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