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The Things We Grow

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Hannah Abigail Clarke

Torn Between Two Lives

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /by Julya Rabinowich, translated by Claire Storey

Hippotherapy

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Joyce Becker Lee

Big Girls Don’t Cry

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Susmita Bhattacharya

A Periwinkle Yesterday

December 2, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Susan Gillis Yarad

An Inch of Courage

December 2, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Virginia Elizabeth Hayes

Sticky Hands, Wild Hair, Bare Feet/ A Sky Right Above/ Father, where is your heart?/ Until death—

November 30, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Victoria Richards

I Know Who Did It

November 21, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People /Christina Hoag

Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s Plate:

Spotlight: Déjà vu

January 26, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 /Romana Iorga

Spotlight: Art of Definism

January 20, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 /Darrell Black

Litdish: Ashley Lumpkin, Poet

January 12, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 /Molly Ashline

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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers

Today’s Slice:

Spotlight: The Fort Jackson Dam Can Take No More / DICTIONASARUS / Roman Prelude #1

January 22, 2020/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2020 /Charlotte Hughes

School Lunch: Time Zones

January 8, 2020/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2020 /by Quinn Christensen

Girlhood

December 25, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 /Lydia Wei

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday

Today’s Course:

What’s In a Name?

January 21, 2020/in Blog /Janet Rodriguez

My Quest For Magnetism

January 16, 2020/in Blog /Lisa Croce

Fire-Swallowing, Love Letters, and Other Dances with Death

December 27, 2019/in Blog, Blog, Winter-Spring 2020 /Regan Humphrey

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Word from the Editor

Our stories can be difficult, sometimes impossible, to tell. In her essay “Alone in Company,” Chelsea Bayouth reflects on the role of an artist at the end of 2018: “For me, it is to fear that every word or image is a window into public, political, and social tumult. It means you have to be more vulnerable than you or anyone in times previous has ever been.” If we continue to write, to paint, to dance, to show up for ourselves and our art every day, we might find that our work transcends ambiguity and discomfort to reveal a greater insight into ourselves, and if we are lucky, into the world.

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