Aashna must choose between what her family thinks she should want and what she needs.
A month after she thought she was getting better, Aashna had the inexplicable headache again. […]
Outtake from “The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue”
Because we are the luckiest YA literary Journal around, we get to share this fabulous scene with you, an outtake from Mackenzi Lee’s “The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.” You’re welcome 😉
Interview with Cindy Pon
We’re thrilled to share this interview with Cindy Pon, author of several YA fantasies and the near-future thriller, “Want”! Read on to find out more about Cindy and her work.
Interview with Jeff Zentner
We’re thrilled to share this interview with Jeff Zentner! Read on to find out more about the author and his award-winning work.
Finding Home Contest Winners
Please join us in congratulating the winner and runners-up in our Finding Home poetry contest!
The winners Meg Kearney chose include a verse novelist, a published poet, and a teen writer.
Outtakes from “Ronit and Jamil”
Outtakes by Pam Laskin.
We at YARN are thrilled to welcome Pam Laskin, author of the YA novel in verse, “Ronit and Jamil.”
Read on as Pam shares more about the story as well as some excerpts of this Palestinian/Israeli retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
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Poetry
3 Poems by Sarah Allen
Three poems by Sarah Allen
The Poet
[…] Darling, just turn me into something worth reading.
Poetry
Breaths Underwater, I Remember
Two poems by teen writer, Jacy Duan
I Remember
If only I could still taste your breath //
And touch your whispers //
And smell your warm, velvet skin […]
Essays
Letters to Frida
Essays is back with another gorgeous and startling #ownvoices piece by Ana Santos, ambitiously told in letters to her idol, Frida Kahlo.
I’ve never really liked the idea of words; to me they seem so naked and contrary to drawings and paintings that are beautiful mixtures of colors and secrets […]
Poetry
want as/an ocean, red pears
Two poems by teen writer, Mia Nelson
red pears
good god the earth is mad //
with sweet things, with pickable //
beauty […]
Poetry
Same Old Story, Dear Wife
Two poems by teen writer, Minh Truong
Same Old Story
Oh yes, //
so terrified of the power you could wreak, //
He clipped your wings […]
Fiction
Outtake from “The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue”
Because we are the luckiest YA literary Journal around, we get to share this fabulous scene with you, an outtake from Mackenzi Lee’s “The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.” You’re welcome 😉
Essays
Cutting Locks
It’s such a pleasure to bring you an essay about teen friendship written from the trenches, by a teen. This moving #ownvoices piece will change the way you feel about “essays” – they’re not just for English class!
By Tina Sang
Jenna wasn’t your conventionally pretty person. Her personality blared […]
Fiction
PoopBoy + MermaidMurmur
[…] MermaidMurmur: i don’t think ur grasping the weirdness.
PoopBoy: I’m grasping it. And I’m saying you’re overreacting. You probably just wish you were running lines with Football Tristan. […]
Poetry
Why Russia Doesn’t Keep a Diary, To Those Who Died at my Funeral
Two poems by Mariah Stewart
Let tears fall for me and //
trickle through spider web cracks //
drip into the Volga scarlet […]
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