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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:

À La Carte: Second Wedding

March 30, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 /Liam Strong

Spotlight: Bibliotechnical Sins

March 23, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 /Carol Hamilton

LitDish: Four Questions with Povi-Tamu Bryant, Activist, Artist, Author

March 16, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 /Regan Humphrey

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School Lunch

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

Today’s Slice:

Overhoard

March 18, 2020/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2020 /Judy Xie

Spotlight: Harth rem ir Estevan is Dead

March 4, 2020/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2020 /Marion Deal

Spotlight: Grave Danger Sonnet

February 19, 2020/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2020 /Ilan Magnani

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday

Today’s Course:

They’ve Tortured and Scared You for Twenty-Odd Years

March 27, 2020/in Blog /Stephanie Teasley

Altering Perception as Survival in 2020’s Era

March 7, 2020/in Blog, Blog, Winter-Spring 2020 /Franz Fanta

“A Quality, Good Life” —Defining Ableism and What It Means to Be Human

March 6, 2020/in Blog, Blog, Winter-Spring 2020 /Amanda Woodard

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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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