By Emily Gersky
Enlighten Your Ears
Twinkle twinkle go the stars
as the sun sets and the
moon rises in your ears.
The folds and freckles
dusted in random clusters on [...]
Interview with Pete Hautman: Coming Soon!
YARN has just the antidote to your back-to-school blues: an interview with Pete Hautman, coming this fall! In case you haven’t picke dup one of his books at your local library yet, he’s the author of the National Book Award winning “Godless,” about a teen who founds his own religion based on the worship of [...]
Fall Photography Needed: What to submit now.
YARN is searching for images that capture the eye, are artistic in nature, and that surprise us. We are excited by photographers that play with light and color…we are not so excited by vacation photos. (Well, I mean, they’re really cool and all…but probably won’t artistically fit someone else’s words.)
Please check our submission guidelines for [...]
Coming Soon — Fiction, Essays, & Poetry by YOU!
Imagine. Envision. Write. Revise. Submit. Dive into YARN and be published alongside the Young Adult writers you love. YARN publishes outstanding original short fiction, poetry, and essays geared toward Young Adult readers. Since we publish new material twice per month, [...]
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Poetry
Enlighten Your Ears, This Earth, & Home
Interviews
Interview with Meg Cabot!
We’re indebted to the imagination of Meg Cabot. She takes the dreams of every girl…and then allows us to live them. What if I suddenly found out I was a princess? What if I magically became a runway model? But Meg’s heroines show us that life’s problems don’t suddenly disappear with newfound beauty, power or [...]
Fiction
The Flipside Part 2
by Tina Ferraro
Tiffany and Amber won the scavenger hunt. Parker and I—with another late start—never made it past “More than you, but less than double you,” which turned out to be “vee,” as in the V-shaped split of the Chu’s front yard oak tree. So another team got the glory and the gift cards [...]
Fiction
Elle, Part 2
By Jennifer DeMotta
Part 2
At sixteen, I still didn’t have my driver’s license, but I’d driven before. Sometimes at night, when my mother was tired and we had to keep driving to put distance between us and him, she let me drive. Only on those long, flat high ways in places like Iowa[...]
Fiction
Elle
By Jennifer DeMotta
Part 1
Last year on my fifteenth birthday, I stood before my birthday cake, my face warm and lit up by fifteen pastel candles. Pink letters spelled out “Happy Birthday Elle.” I took a deep breath, anxiously thinking of wishes. Before I settled on a wish, my mother hung up the phone she’d been cradling on her shoulder and jumped up from the table.[...]
Poetry
Salt, Varnished Apple, & Baby Doll
By Jacqueline Jules
Sodium + Chloride = Salt
Sodium, alone, is unstable.//
Will flame if tossed in water.//
Chloride is poison to inhale.//
But when they join hands//
they transform [...]
Essays
A Brief History of Bad Girls
By Alisa M. Libby
I like writing about bad girls. A murderous countess. An adulterous queen. I don’t know what they’ve taught you in school, but here’s the truth: history is full of bad girls. [...]
Poetry
violet & Tortoise or Hare
By Doraine Bennet
violet
she stands in the corner //
of the crowded room //
a song swirls //
above the chatter //
she wishes she hadn’t come //
but still, she gathers her courage //
struggles for conversation //
they feign ignorance [...]
Interviews
Interview with Susan Beth Pfeffer
We’re big admirers of Susan Beth Pfeffer. Her career in writing children’s literature has lasted 40 years (“Just Morgan” was published in 1970) and 75 books, which would be remarkable enough–but it’s an amazing writer indeed who can produce the breakthrough “New York Times” bestselling “Life As We Knew It” (LAWKI) on Book #74. [...]
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