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! [...]
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.
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.
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,” [...]
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. [...]
Even if you live in the northeast like many YARN editors, where spring still seems painfully far off (if TS Elliot were to write “The Waste Land” these days, surely MARCH would be the cruelest month), there is good news on the horizon: National Poetry Month is in April, and is thus right around the corner!
YARN’s NPM 2013 will include: Sarah Tregay, poems by teens and adults, plus fun prompts an surprises for YOU!
To kick of NPM, here is a trio of poems by sixteen year old high school junior Mo Fowler.
beat up by a girl
“I still think about you!” //
He shouts off a cliff of //
Self-doubt, [...]
We want you to Tumbl, Tweet, and/or Facebook your poems in response to these prompts. Like our successful summer Blockbuster-Free Reading Exchange, the prompts are meant to get you thinking in fun, communal ways about writing!
Click here for Week 1 of 2013′s Poetry Prompts.
By Laura Williams McCaffrey
All of my fourteen years, we have lived in the dark because of the Dragons. The stone walls of our cave hide us from them, and also hide the light from us. I open my eyes, I close my eyes: darkness.
High above, the rounded roof of our cave is mostly solid rock, but a few pieces have cracked and fallen away [...]
By Isaac Blum
Valerie first touched my penis on November 8th 2011, between a swivel chair and a fax machine, in the room Len Hargreaves’ father used as an office. In a moment of semi-drunken lust, we barricaded ourselves behind the heavy door, threw ourselves on the Turkish rug, and, as they say, “went to town.” [...]
This is a very special interview. Just her list of fave fantasy novels toward the end is worth the read. And the rest of her answers are as beautifully crafted as her haunting novels.
Not many writers can say they write books for teens and adults that are equally successful [...]
By Wheeler School junior Rebecca Greenberg
The air is humid and cold and saturates the trees, //
Drapes our shoulders, //
Rests over the sky like a glass lens. [...]
Sherri tells YARN that “Carnivale” takes place approximately nine months before the start of “Orleans” and gives a glimpse into the world of the heroine, Fen de la Guerre, and her chieftain, Lydia, before their world is turned upside down.
[...] You might find this hard to believe, Fen, but I was a grown woman before we met.” [...]
In a recurring dream, //
I turn in circles, //
a red cloth blocking my eyes. //
There is a stick in my hand, //
and a treasure filled with candy //
dangles just above my head. [...]
By Erik DeLapp
How impolite to cry “broken heart!” //
when paranasal sinuses excrete //
mucus, and tears swell and drip //
from your lacrimal apparatus [...]
By John Cusick
In school they tell you time is an illusion, but the profs over-complicate it if you ask me. There’s no such thing as before and after, just a big mash of now. “Time” is something our brains make up to help us get from point A to point B. Like the long path up to Stacy Adams’ house. [...]
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