“Swimming Naked” Wins SCBWI Magazine Merit Award!

Well, we always knew the work we published was award-winning caliber. But now we have outside verification. Stephen Eoannou’s short story “Swiming Naked,” published in January 2012, just won an SCBWI Magazine Merit Honor for Fiction! [...]

Exclusive Short Story by Ned Vizzini!

We are thrilled to share with you Ned’s latest, “Strike a Chord”—a YARN exclusive short story!

From Ned Vizzini’s first collection of essays “Teen Angst? Naaah…” to his novel “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” (now a major motion picture), there is a running theme throughout his writing—a self-aware teenager is a complex, beautiful, burdened, hilarious, resilient, layered human being.

NPM Poetry Prompts: 5 with Bonus

The last 3!! Thanks so much for being a part of this special NPM project!

Write a poem in 24 lines, two words per line.
Invent a game. Tell me how I play, how I win, and what happens if I lose.

Interview with verse novelist Sarah Tregay!

So, what happens when your mom discovers your dad is cheating with another guy and she drives you from your home, boyfriend, and collection of pals you affectionately call the Leftovers and takes you to New Hampshire where you have to start your life from scratch? Sarah Tregay, in “Love and Leftovers,” [...]

Exclusive Sara Zarr short story before school is out!

YARN is thrilled to announce that Sara Zarr has a story just for us, due out later this spring, and we cannot wait to share it with you!

Every now and then while reading a book, you come across a line that makes you stop exactly where you are. [...]

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Procrastination Station

Poetry Reader & Assistant Jane Carlton makes 5 unique, summer-ready suggestions for taming the procrastination monster and getting your writing done.

I was going to write this post last week, but I kept putting it off. [...]

Poetry

A Girl and Her Prom

By Margo Valentine

White pasty legs in the larkspur //
near the bridge with the broken gaps, //
that kiss underneath //
the gray and the navy brick, //
where sunlight streams through. [...]

Fiction

“Swimming Naked” Wins SCBWI Magazine Merit Award!

Well, we always knew the work we published was award-winning caliber. But now we have outside verification. Stephen Eoannou’s short story “Swiming Naked,” published in January 2012, just won an SCBWI Magazine Merit Honor for Fiction! [...]

Fiction

Exclusive Short Story by Ned Vizzini!

We are thrilled to share with you Ned’s latest, “Strike a Chord”—a YARN exclusive short story!

From Ned Vizzini’s first collection of essays “Teen Angst? Naaah…” to his novel “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” (now a major motion picture), there is a running theme throughout his writing—a self-aware teenager is a complex, beautiful, burdened, hilarious, resilient, layered human being.

Fiction

Iman in Iran

By high school senior, Amir Tamimi

The Pakro family lived on Nejat Street, among a small community of veterans from the Iran-Iraq War. The father, Omid Pakro, had lost both of his legs under a tank in Khoramshahr, near the border. That was not the worst part. The tank belonged to the Islamic Republic, his own side. Tragic blunder. [...]

Poetry

I Could Drown You

Our last 2013 NPM poet is college undergrad Cameron MacDonald.

I Could Drown You

I could drown you //
with each word dribbling //
from the leaky faucet in the basement bathroom. //
You’d be the glass jar [...]

Poetry

the white witch’s heart, spelling out eternity

By Shirley Kuo

the white witch’s heart

there is plaster peeling //
off from her pale skin, dusty //
circles where she used to be //
touched. her spine is crumbling, frail [...]

Poetry

NPM Poetry Prompts: 4

What are you waiting for?

(22) Write about a change, a transformation, a decision, a new beginning in a haiku.
(23) Start a poem with a line from something technical or scientific.

Interviews

Interview with verse novelist Sarah Tregay!

So, what happens when your mom discovers your dad is cheating with another guy and she drives you from your home, boyfriend, and collection of pals you affectionately call the Leftovers and takes you to New Hampshire where you have to start your life from scratch? Sarah Tregay, in “Love and Leftovers,” [...]

Poetry

NPM Poetry Prompts: 3

It’s not too late! Come to the party!

15) Write a response to something you have read (a cereal box, a children’s book, a note posted on a telephone pole). Address your poem to the person who sent the message.
(16) Hide something in a poem. You can actually hide a word or idea—or write about the act of hiding something.

Poetry

NPM Poetry Prompts: 2

The second installment of our NPM poem-a-day series! Get writing! Get posting!

(8) Give advice: start—Beware of
(9) Go someplace and eavesdrop. Listen to the voices you hear for a good line or two. [...]

Poetry

Synesthesia, Perfect You

By Nisha Sharma

Synesthesia

There is a drop of lily oil //
in the vile containing my thoughts //
that make up a cakey layer //
spread over the inside of my cranial shell. [...]

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