My first time in a public library was in the fifth grade. I needed to write an essay on Henry Ford, and the library in my school had nothing on the entrepreneur. (This was prior to the internet being your main source of information. It still is not mine when it comes to essays.) So [...]

Note from YARN (November 2012): We regret that because of a technical difficulty, we had to delete most of the illustrations for this story.   By Michelle Barker   “Beautiful or useful, one or the other,” growled Jimmy to his son. “The rest ain’t worth spit.” Halen Minn had heard those words every day of [...]

Longevity is difficult to attain and maintain in a society where videos go viral in minutes and Twitter feeds reload every second with new, vital information. However, Sonya Sones has managed to remain a prominent figure in literary circles for more than a decade with timeless novels in verse. [...]

Given the predeliction of adult literary fiction writers for writing about childhood trauma, I am quite certain that much high-quality writing deemed “not right at this time” at The Paris Review or for my friends at Failbetter.com would be ideal for a YA literary journal like YARN. More importantly [...]