Find out how to enter our Random Word Contest during National Poetry Month, which will be judged by John Corey Whaley!!
Plus, you know, you can win stuff.
Click here!
Random Word CONTEST!
Find out how to enter our Random Word Contest during National Poetry Month, which will be judged by John Corey Whaley!!
Plus, you know, you can win stuff.
Click here!
National Poetry Month is Coming!
A Contest! Margarita Engle! Ellen Hopkins! Holly Thompson! John Corey Whaley!!
Here at YARN, we are a bit biased about the fourth month of the year. Sure, the weather is getting warmer, the days are getting longer, the end of school is getting closer, but this is not why we love April.
We love poetry.
Hello, 2014!
Welcome to the new year at YARN! We hope everyone had a restful and productive and delicious holiday season.
We’re excited to be back publishing the best in YA short fiction, poetry, and essays.
We blush!
We were so honored that YARN alums John Corey Whaley, Cecil Castellucci, Mitali Perkins, and Terra Elan McVoy championed YARN!
[...] Debut authors of all ages mix and mingle with established writers and eager readers around the YARN story fire, sharing original essays, fiction and poetry that—for once—isn’t subject to the narrowing whims of the market. – Mitali Perkins
See you in 2014!
THANK YOU, Loyal Readers, for making this such an excellent 2013. Without your eyeballs on your computers/phones/tablets, the work we publish wouldn’t mean much…..which would be a shame, since 2013 was quite a year!
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Blog
When a Writer Becomes a Reader: Lourdes on the Harry-Ron-Hermione debate
[...] However, I wonder: At what point can writers become readers of their own works? [...]
Fiction
Bang
By K.D. Van Brunt
As I approach the classroom door, a rush of adrenaline courses through me, and my hands begin to shake. In three strides I’m out the door, pushing my way into the hallway, where I lose myself among the mass of students rushing to their next class. I’ve done it! Easy money! [...]
Fiction
Monkey Island
By Lynn Levin
[...] One animal sank its fangs into her collarbone area and sheared through the shoulder strap of her swim suit. One boob fell out.
She would not die like this. She would not. [...]
Fiction
The Chemistry of Em
By Danielle Davis
In the final week of Em’s first semester of her last year of high school, four days after her eighteenth birthday, she returned home from school in the evening. She was given a note by the security guard downstairs [...]
Fiction
Small Change
By Deb Vlock
One night in the slow, hot crawl of late summer, our cat spontaneously combusted. This was a few hours after I spied hundreds of cicada shells heaped in a derelict pile amongst the previous autumn’s leaves, over by the garage, and the air shimmered with insect calls – cicada sex [...]
Fiction
Natural
By Jessie Atkin
I told her I was going over to Kate’s house to bake, so in a court of law, under every technicality in the book, I wasn’t lying.
I was being as honest as any teenager can be with her parents. Truth be told, if any of us told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, a whole generation would get locked up for its own safety. [...]
Poetry
The Listener, First Love
Our first poems of 2014 are by nineteen-year-old college freshman, Sia Tiong Hua.
The Listener
Some days//
you bring rain reminiscent of tears//
and on others//
it is the seasonal downfall//
the monsoon. [...]
Fiction
Finding Someday in the Dark
By Laura Keller
I never would’ve guessed that I’d be tinkering with thoughts of Rafferty Long on that night of the apocalyptic ice storm; I’d sworn off thinking about him when we hit the middle of eleventh grade, about a year after his accident. [...]
Fiction
Long’s Division
Have you ever discovered a debut author whom you just know is “one to watch”? We have! Lamar Giles is an exciting new voice in YA crime fiction. He’s the author of the soon-to-release YA thriller FAKE ID [...]
YARN is thrilled to introduce you to Lamar Giles and to present his long short story, “Long’s Division.” [...]
Fiction
Echo
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 [...]
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