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​​All published contributors are listed alphabetically by last name.

700+ young writers published

from 43 U.S. States,

37 countries, and

6 continents worldwide

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Taiwo Adebowale is a 16 year old writer from Baltimore, MD. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastics Art and Writing Awards throughout high school and she is currently a writer for her school's newspaper. When she is not writing or reading, she can be found binge-watching cartoons, meditating, or practicing kickflips while listening to Rico Nasty. 

Amy is a 15-year old high school student from Australia. She's a science nerd and an avid lover of cats. Writing has been an age-old hobby of rs, but she's only just discovered the beauty of literary magazines. She tweets @ayqqii.

Auri is a student currently attending high school in Ontario, Canada. They love words and all things beautiful, and spend most of their time reading books about geology or faraway places, drinking tea, or climbing trees in the rain. They have been published by Quillkeeper's Press.

Jay Aggarwal is an aspiring writer based in San Francisco, California.  He is currently 17 years old. Jay dreams of majoring in journalism. He has won the poetry competition at his high school and writes for his school newspaper. Jay loves hiking and has always been fascinated by nature.

Richelle Agor is a sixteen year old student from the island of Kauai. She is inspired by her good friends, though she'll never let them know. Most of the time, you can find her listening to Dr.Dog.

Eman Ahmad is a 19-year-old English major from Lahore, Pakistan. She writes book reviews on Instagram @afewmorepagesleft. 

Yumna Ahmad is a 17 year old writer from Ontario, Canada. She is a staff writer for the Defiant Magazine and her writing can be found on Reedsy under the pen name, "Kathryn Dino." 

Oyindoubra Akika is a 14-year-old Nigerian Christian. She loves writing poetry and fiction stories. She has only written fiction and poetry for fun, but hopes to impact her society. She believes the world needs a bit of kindness and magic. 

Mona Alaa is a 16-year-old junior in high school in Egypt. Writing is Mona's way of making sense of the world and of her own experiences. She describes poetry as "her anchor through the raging storms of life". 

Aisha Al-Tarawneh is a 16-year-old living in Qatar. She has previously been featured in The Heritage Review. Her interests include extreme sports and writing poetry at night.

MP Armstrong is a disabled queer writer from Ohio, studying English and history at Kent State University. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Perhappened, Prismatica Magazine, and Hominum Journal, among others, and their debut chapbook, who lives like this for such a cheap price?, is forthcoming from Flower Press. Find them online @mpawrites and at mpawrites.wixsite.com/website.

Kalli Azad lives in New York City, where she attends the Chapin School. She writes short fiction of all genres. Often, her stories involve her cat. 

Abby Bacall is a 16-year-old high-school junior from New Jersey. This is her second year as editor of her school's Art and Literary Magazine. She has been writing independently for many years, and she has taken classes such as Creative Writing and AP English Language. She is also a writing tutor at her school.

Ellen J. Baddeley is a 15-year-old writer and playwright from England, who gains inspiration from world conflict and the surroundings about her.

Lydia Bae is a high school senior in Bellevue, Washington. She writes primarily poetry. Her writing has previously been recognized in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the Foredge Review, and the Apprentice Writer.

Cathleen Balid is a sixteen year old writer from Queens, New York. Her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the New York Times, and more, and she has attended online summer workshops via Ellipsis Writing and the Iowa Young Writers' Studio. When she is not writing, she loves to journal, scroll through Pinterest, and reread her favorite books. 

Jason Ball is a 17-year-old student from Apex, North Carolina. He's written in the past but had never sought publishing until now. Mental health has always been a struggle, and writing was a way to look at abstract emotions in an unchanging medium. He hopes that his personal experiences might make someone else out there know that they aren't alone in their struggles.

Oliver Bankier is a 13-year old from Berkeley, California. He has been writing poems and essays with a writing coach for four years and has published several pieces at TeenInk.com. His Poem “The Protest Sign Speaks” was inspired by Eve Ewing’s “The Train Speaks” which appears in her 1919 poetry collection.

Gloria Bao is 16 years old. She currently lives in Hangzhou, China, though she is from Michigan, USA. She has been published in TeenInk.
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Deshi Basa is a 17-year-old high schooler who resides in the Bay Area. He draws inspiration from the countless submissions he reads as an editor for Polyphony Lit. His work has been featured in Same Faces Collective.

William Baska is a 17-year-old Senior in high school from Kansas City, Missouri with a passion for literature. He sees no other future for himself than as an author and he will work tirelessly until that is achieved. As for the piece, it's a simple story from serving as a bit of flashback in a bigger short story. Should be okay.

Alexandra Bates is a recent graduate of Colegio Roosevelt the American School of Lima, Peru. Although born in the United States, Alexandra has lived most of her life in Latin America, in both Colombia and Peru. She has demonstrated a passion for English throughout her academic career and is a member of the National English Honor Society. Alexandra is 18 years old and will be attending NYU this fall to possibly major in English. 

Zainab Batool is a 18 y/o poet, writer and photographer from Lahore, Pakistan. Inspired by topics like ache, grief, love, desire, sins, death, she has been writing under the pseudonym of "azaina". Through writing and poetry, she tries to find solace and a home in someone else's heavy heart. For her, poetry is the name of soothing one another's aches by dwelling in their beauty. You can access more of her poetry online at her wordpress blog (dearanxiousheart.art.blog) and on her Instagram page (Instagram.com/azainart).

Charlotte (Cj) Baumgard is a sophomore at Schuylkill Valley High School who has had her literary work published in her high school’s literary magazine, Epiphany and is the Sophomore Editor-in-Chief of her school's newspaper, Pantherette. She is also the Founder and Head Editor of Hanging Stars Zine. While not immersing herself in literature in her free time, she can be found laughing with friends, listening to music, and making jewelry.

Gabrielle Beck is a junior attending Tenafly High School. When she is not writing or photographing, she can be found repurposing vintage denim. She is a finalist for New York Times “Coming of Age in 2020: A Special Multimedia Contest for Teenagers,”and awarded with a silver medal for photography in 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and National Council of Teachers of English Superior Writing Award.

Danielle Beckman (she/her) is a 22 year-old recent college grad from Regis University where she graduated with a major in Neuroscience and a minor in English. She completed a senior thesis through the Regis College honors program titled: The Inevitability of Collision: Creating Empathy Through Fiction wherein she explores the relationship between fiction writing and empathy in readers through a collection of short stories. She has had one essay published in Regis 33, an undergraduate journal, entitled Alcohol or Therapy?, exploring coping mechanisms for anxiety and depression in college students. She hopes to continue writing in her future alongside her medical career and is currently living in Norfolk, Virginia with her brother and sister-in-law and nannying her nephew during her year off. 

Avik Belenje, age 15, lives in Silicon Valley where he has studied poetry for the past three years at Poetry Power, an institute devoted to this ancient art and directed by an award-winning poet. Already, he has received publication nationwide, not only in literary journals for youth but also in those for adults. He has also received awards for his work and feels proudest of his Silver Key from Scholastic Arts and Writing Regional Awards and his recent record-breaking four First Place Awards from California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc., the oldest poetry organization in the state.  

Suhrith Bellamkonda is a high school senior from Mountain View, California. He has contributed to the Stanford Anthology for Youth, Poetic Sun, and Blue Marble Review, among others. He self-published his first collection entitled "Castles and Plastic Toys" in August 2021.

Madeleine Benson is an 18 year old girl from Corpus Christi, Texas. She enjoys reading and writing in her spare time.

Luca Bernardini is a seventeen year-old the Bay Area, California. English is her passion and hopefully her future, though she’s not so sure what that means yet. She’s only been published in her school newspaper, twice last year.

Ramyani Bhattacharya is a 19-year-old student living in Kolkata, India. Her works have appeared in Spillwords Press and the Student Edition of The Bombay Review. She has her own Wordpress blog. Writing for her is an escape from the apparent meaninglessness of life.

Dia Bhojwani is a 16-year-old writer, editor, and anchor who lives in Mumbai, India. She is published or forthcoming in The Punch Magazine, Parallax Literary Magazine, The Ice Lolly Review, and The Hearth Magazine, amongst others, and has won awards from the WingWord Poetry Prize and Lune Spark. Her first book, The Pandemic Diaries, was published this January. She's passionate about messy character arcs, mental health, and Hawaiian pizza. 

The poet is Tia Borley, who currently lives in Dubai, UAE. She is 17 years old and has had no prior writing experience. She has never shared her work publicly.

Srina Bose is a fourteen year old student hailing from New Delhi, India. She has previously published her collection of poetry titled “Roses In My Mind” which is commercially available. Her work has also appeared in the "Ice Lolly Review".

Isabelle Boun is an Asian American teen from Southern California. She is currently in the 11th grade and is relatively new to creative writing. She hopes to continue writing and polish her skills in her free time.

Skye Bowdon is a 15-year-old poet from Santa Fe, New Mexico.  She is a Creative Writing major at New Mexico School for the Arts. Her work  had been published in Dreams of Montezuma, An Anthology of Poetry and Prose New Mexico School for the Arts.  Skye was a silver key medalist in the 2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. 

Daniel Boyko is a 17-year-old writer from New Jersey. His work appears in Teen Ink, Blue Marble Review, The Daphne Review, and Navigating the Maze, among others. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Polyphony Lit. Wherever his dog is, he can’t be far behind.

Kaiya Braam is a 13-year-old from Queensland, Australia. As a young child, they always loved reading and writing, and enjoyed creating fictional worlds where anything is possible. Kaiya also loves music and acting, and has participated in many writing competitions. They strive for equality everywhere, and want to create a world where there is hope, freedom, and adventure every day.

Leah Brady is a 16 year old writer from Saint Petersburg, Florida. Though not previously published, she thrives on writing poetry and prose in her free time. Her poetry is centered on personal experiences involving mental health and the craziness of youth. 

Natasha Bredle is a fourteen years old freshman from Ohio. She fell in love with the art of storytelling at a young age and has been writing poetry and prose ever since. In many ways it has changed her life, and it is her hope that her work will change someone else’s life one day as well. Natasha's work has been featured in the Dove Tales Writing for Peace poetry anthology, the Paper Crane Journal, and the Incandescent Review.

Gabby Buchholz is a creative writing major and librarian. When not reading or writing, she is an avid cartoon fan. She has previously been published by The Daily Drunk.

Chloe Budakian is a 17-year-old high school student from Waterloo, Ontario. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of her school's newspaper, and has been recognized regionally and nationally for her essays and short stories. When she is not writing, she's probably at the skating rink or taking another unnecessarily long walk.

Syed Umar Bukhari is an 18-year-old writer from Pakistan. A poet for more than half of his life, he is an author of two books. Six Times Forever, his first book, was a hit among the audience and his peers, dealing with important issues like mental health and hopeless romanticism. Honesty and rawness are the pillars of his work. He loves alliterations and is compelled to perfectionism in everything he does.

Nattie Bumpo is a 17-year-old girl with a ridiculous fear of outer space and a love for all things red. From a small town in the PNW, she writes for a couple of newspaper corporations. She is family-oriented, but that doesn't stop her from reaching for her dreams of writing for the most avid readers and young learners. She hopes to remind people of the relationships they should prioritize, outside cell phones and inside present surroundings. ​

Jade Butler is a Georgia-born writer on summer vacation. She's 16 and will be starting her junior year in highschool in the fall. She discovered her passion for writing in the beginning of 2020 and hopes to make it her career.

Marissa C. is a seventeen-year-old high school student from Illinois. She dreams of becoming a research scientist, but writing and reading have always been a comfort to her, even if she’s never been published before. In the future, she hopes to continue to create in every sense of the word.

Ciara Byrne is a 16-year-old writer from Colorado. 

Khristina Cabrera (she/her) is seventeen years old and lives in New Jersey. She enjoys taking long walks and driving around nice neighborhoods. Her work has previously been longlisted in the 2021 National Flash Fiction Day Youth Competition and has appeared in Agapanthus Review, Love Letters, and others.

Alicia Cai is a 17-year-old living in Delaware. She's been writing since she was fifteen. She loves making meaning of the mundane, and connecting disparate concepts and objects to each other as if the entirety of existence is one galactic system.

Jacqueline Cai is a rising junior in Sammamish, Washington. She enjoys playing violin and chamber music with her friends. She does not have previous writing experience, but enjoys writing poetry occasionally. Aside from this, she is part of the robotics team at her school, which usually volunteers at community events to raise awareness for STEM.

Luciana Camacho is a 17-year-old high school student from Costa Rica. She has written multiple short stories, novels and poems both on the online writing platform Wattpad and on Instagram as WinterWriter11 and The Old Romantic, respectively. Her writing is mostly inspired by her struggles with mental health and her deep love for superheroes.

Naomi Carr is an emerging writer from San Francisco, California. Though she dabbles in other genres, she has found a home in creative nonfiction. Her work is published or forthcoming in Blue Marble Review, Apprentice Writer, Ice Lolly Review, and  Paper Crane Journal, among others. When Naomi isn't writing she likes to take long walks through parks and to practice photography. 

J. M. Chadwick is a seventeen-year-old writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. She is a senior in high school and aside from writing, she enjoys dance, painting, and film photography. She is a poetry and prose editor for Kalopsia Literary Journal and has had work published in Heartbroken Zine and Floral Zine.

Clara Chai, a sixteen-year-old secondary school student from Singapore, has been writing short stories since she was a child. She draws inspiration from the world around her and her work has been published on several platforms. Find her at @writings_by_dawn on Instagram.

Jaewon Chang is a high school junior living in the Philippines. His works of poetry have been recognized by literary magazines, such as Cleaver Magazine, Track Four, and more. During his free time, Jaewon enjoys traveling the city on foot.

​Justin Chang is a 17-year old from Issaquah, Washington. He is not an experienced writer, but he loves fried chicken! While claiming to lack writing skills, Justin is an advocate for strong and meaningful relationships, and is always willing to help those in need.

Sam Chao is a sixteen year old high school student in North Potomac, Maryland. He began writing at the age of ten, and eventually found his passion in writing short stories about the struggles of life. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, writing, and drinking copious amounts of tea.

Diya Chaudhary lives in San Francisco and attends high school there in San Francisco, California. She is 15 years old, almost 16 and is a sophomore. She works with the school newspaper as well as the school arts/writing paper which are pretty similar. She enjoys writing more than anything, and wishes to put her name out there and have her voice heard. Diya hopes that this piece, and many more pieces that she will submit, get read by many different audiences in order to hopefully add some literature to the mindsets of the readers. She hopes you all enjoy her piece!

Sarah Chaudhry is a sixteen-year-old Pakistani-American who aspires to write the entire world from the inside out. Aside from streaming Marvel movies at any given opportunity, she loves to write poems, rants, and stories that can be found in literary magazines such as Cathartic Lit Mag, Ice Lolly Review, and more. You can find her in NY with nose-deep in a book when she's not combating the challenges of high school. . Her only social media is @sarah._.barahh on Instagram.

Sarah Chaudhry is a 15-year-old from Queens, New York. Sarah is currently a tenth grader at the Queens School of Inquiry and has taken a Creative Writing elective in her ninth-grade year. 

Aileen Chen is a high school student currently attending Seoul Foreign School in Seoul, South Korea. She enjoys engaging with her creativity through songwriting, dance, photography, film making, drawing, and writing. Her works are recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing awards and MPED int’l art&design awards.  

Ella Chen was born and raised in Beijing, China. She is 17 years old and is a high school student in California. She is relatively new to writing poetry and creative nonfiction, though she has been dancing for about a decade!

Eva Chen is a 16 year old teenager from Burlingame, CA. She has been recognized by the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, Kalopsia Literary Magazine, The Weight Magazine, and WeWriteHere. In her free time, she enjoys playing kalimba and playing tug-of-war with her dog. 

Evan Chen is an 8th Grader in New Jersey.

Joy Chen is a 16-year-old high school student currently studying in Hong Kong. She lives to write and (trying to) create art and will be attending the Iowa Young Writer's Studio this summer. 

Renee Chen is an Asian-American writer. She has been published in the Daphne Review, the Wilderness House Literary Review, and elsewhere. As an addict to detective and mystery fiction, she can be found reading Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle when she is not writing!

Suzanna Chen is a sixteen-year-old secondary school student from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Emerging from previous struggles with mental illnesses, she wishes to encourage others to speak out and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health. She has no formal writing experience, but her works - mostly personal stories - can be found on various mental health awareness platforms. Although she acknowledges that her writing isn’t perfect - as English is her second language - she still hopes to spread positivity and share her experiences, hoping it would empower others.

Eva Cheraisi is a 17-year-old first-generation Kenyan American who resides in Georgia. Since middle school, she has been enamored with forms of written expression which propelled her to become an editor for her school's Literary Magazine, a winner of the Wellesley Book Award, and a 2nd place winner in poetry in Georgia's National Beta State Convention. She finds solace in the natural flow of words on paper when verbal expression fails.

Eunice Chi is a sophomore in high school from New Jersey. Her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers in 2019 and 2020. In her free time she enjoys astrology books, strangely specific Spotify playlists, and painting.

Emma Chin is a 14 year old girl from New York. She has been writing since she was seven years old and has no prior publications. She is fond of writing contemporary fantasy and poetry, though she has dabbled in many other genres.

Alex Choi is an 18 year-old writer from Fairfax, Virginia and a first year student at Brown University. In Providence he is a double major studying English and Computer Science and looks to bridge the gap between the two fields. His work can be regularly found at headsupteens.org that focuses on mental health awareness.

Eunice Choi is a 16 year old writer from California. She enjoys reading, creative writing, and journalism. In her free time, she likes to appreciate film and bake new recipes.

Hyunji Choi is a Korean student who studies in the Philippines. She wasn't very interested in writing until she became a high school student. Hyunji started writing short stories since she was 12, and now that she is 14, she wanted to send out submissions to get her stories and poems published. This is her very first publication of a poem, 'Halabeoji's Ashes,' written after Sharon Olds' 'His Ashes.' Hyunji would love to publish her other stories in the future, too.

Lina Chokrane is a 16-year-old first-generation Moroccan; her parents are from Casablanca, Morocco. She was born and raised in New York City. She attends a French bilingual school in New York City called Lycée Français De New York. Additionally, she is a performing arts fanatic, meaning she is in love with the arts (musical theatre, theatre, filmmaking, etc... you name it!). When Lina isn’t at school, you’ll see her on stage singing, acting, dancing my heart out and even directing. Lina has never published anything professionally but has published several articles in her school magazine.

Caroline Chou is a 17-year old writer from Maryland with a love for leitmotifs and magical realism. Her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Writers. When she’s not writing, you can find her reading fantasy, playing golf, or marveling at the way time passes when she procrastinates. She’s occasionally on Instagram @clswriting.

Lucia Colwell is a 16-year-old student, actress, and writer in Pasadena, California. Lucia lives with her parents and dog, all three of which inspire her writing. She loves to experiment with her voice and style, particularly highlighting and reflecting on her relationships with beauty, femininity, and body image. Currently, Lucia writes creative nonfiction and poetry.

Evelyn Combs is a seventeen year old writer from Norman, Oklahoma. When not writing, she enjoys reading, playing the viola, and observing animal life in her neighborhood. Some of her favorite creatures include snakes, toads, and her two goofy dogs. Evelyn has previously been published in Ice Lolly Review, Paper Crane Journal, and Cathartic Literary Magazine.

Anuva Chowdhury (any pronouns) is a queer Muslim writer in Bangladesh. Sixteen and searching, they write to explore the intersections of their identity, living with mental illness, and the hideous beauty of the worlds they inhabit. They are published and forthcoming in the Ice Lolly Review, Inertia Teens and Intersections Magazine. 

Mehrul Bari S. Chowdhury is a writer and poet from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has recently completed his BA in English Literature, and has been published multiple times in the Six Seasons Review, Dhaka Tribune, Daily Sun, and The Daily Star.

Jacob Coblentz is an 18-year-old from Boston Heights, Ohio. He is an aspiring creative looking into many types of creative outlets including writing, art, and music. He is most interested in creating vibes, not concrete plotlines.

Hannah Collier is 19 and currently lives in Waldorf, Maryland. Her poem "Opposition In the Time of Doubt" was submitted to her high school literary magazine, and she is currently submitting recent work to publication magazines. 

Joni Cruz is a fourteen-year-old student and amateur poet from Manila, Philippines. She has been recognized for creative excellence by the COBIS foundation, Art in the Park, and Art in Island among others. When she is not engaging with the written word, Joni nurses her many plants and hyper-fixations.

Tanvi Dahuja is a high school senior from St. Louis, Missouri. She loves to read, write, and knit. She has been writing books and poetry since childhood and hopes to continue perfecting her art. 

Kate Dargan is 20 years old and an English Creative Writing major at Miami University.  She is from Long Island, New York, and enjoys writing short stories in her spare time.  Last year, she was a recipient of the Edward J. Montaine Award in the fiction category, and her short story “Silence” has been published by Happy Captive Magazine.

Divyanshi Dash is a monochromatic leaves enthusiast from India. She is an 18-year-old girl who believes in love and kindness the most. She is an intersectional feminist who devotes a lot of time to writing and reading poetry. She is a contributor at Women's Republic. She's often found journaling if not ranting about feminism and what it takes to be a woman.

Anna Kate Daunt is a twenty-year-old English major who attends Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She possesses a passion for youth and for modern poetry. Her writing has previously appeared in The Allegheny Review.  
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Jordan Davidson is a 17-year-old writer from the Colorado, USA. While her main focus is speculative fiction, specifically high fantasy, Davidson uses poetry to explore the kinds of feelings that English doesn’t yet have set words. She has been awarded by Scholastics Arts and Writing as well as the National YoungArts Foundation, and her work is upcoming in the YoungArts Winners anthology and Corvid Queen.  

Theo Davidson is a writer from Massachusetts. His work has been published in Blue Marble Review and the anthology Water: Selkies, Sirens, and Sea Monsters.

Jennifer DeSantis is 15 and afraid of growing up. She lives in upstate New York and writes poetry on her bedroom floor. Some of her favorite things are mint tea, the ocean, and Fearless by Taylor Swift.

Evelyn deVos is an 18 year old high school senior and lesbian young adult poet from Gilbert, Arizona. When she’s not fawning over her precious dog, Cocoa, she’s probably lost daydreaming about living in a cottage someday. This is her debut poetry publication. 

Siya Dhamija​ is a 16-year-old simple girl from India with her diary and poetry as her bestfriends. All she believes in is to be patient with herself as nothing in nature blooms all year.

Dylan Dial is an 18-year-old independent writer in Houston, Texas. Dylan has always loved writing since he was young, language arts being instilled in him by his father who was an English teacher. Although he has self-taught experience in spoken word poetry and various styles of writing, he has only recently started to branch out into the process of submission.

Nikolai Dimasilaw is a 15-year-old writer from the Philippines. He enjoys writing novels, short stories, and poetry under the name Dimasilaw. He writes about everything under the sun, but particularly loves theological and mental health themes!

Isobel Dixon is a 17- year-old writer from the northern England. She has been writing poems and stories her whole life and has entered poetry and short story competitions since the age of 6 . Her favourite topics to write about are hopeless romantics and the emotions she deals with due to experiences that have tested her mental health. When Isobel is not writing, you will find her reading!

Patricia Jane Donato is a 16-year-old aspiring author living in the U.S. When she's not writing, Patricia is chatting with her friends, drawing manga, and going for long walks in the woods. Her other published work is available to read on The WEIGHT Journal. 

Tejal Doshi is a high schooler living in India who dreams about becoming a best-selling author someday. She’s been published in the Peace Gong, Hindu Young World Magazine, The WEIGHT Journal and has published a fantasy e-novel called The Lost City. She is also a member of MIST (Mental Illness Support for Teenagers) and a talented procrastinator.

Ilana Drake is a sophomore at Vanderbilt with a passion for creative writing. When Ilana is not studying, she can be found putting the pen to paper. Her writing has been featured in PBS NewsHour, The Tennessean, and Ms. Magazine. Ilana's poetry has appeared in Musing Publications, Divot, and WriteGirl's Lines & Breaks. 

Trisha Dutta is a 17-year-old from Kolkata, India who is currently a high school junior studying Science. She has been drawn to literature and the pure sciences ever since she was a toddler and she keeps having weird ideas which she occasionally likes to write down. She is your typical nerdy coffee addict and when she is not poring over books, you'll likely find her traveling, exploring her city, trying out new cuisines, and pretty much living a literary dystopia

Bella Dy is a 15-year-old from the U.S. She started writing poetry regularly in March, at the beginning of the COVID-induced quarantine. After the world essentially shut down, writing became an escape from the harsh and tragic realities faced when a poet looks up from her pen.

Lara is a teenage girl who has lived in Ireland all her life. Although she usually works on getting a novel or two written up, she often tries her hand at poetry and prose too. 

Shahd Mohamed Elgendy is a 17-year-old from Egypt. She has been creatively writing since 2017, and it is her biggest passion in life. She likes for her writings to bring out parts of life which are buried and hidden away from people, discovering new truths and realities within her words.

Keiran Elden is an eighteen-year-old writer from Larchmont, New York. They have been passionate about writing since childhood, and they strive to create art that is as emotionally sincere as possible. Their work has been recognized by the Austin International Poetry Foundation, as well as the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Del Elizabeth (she/they) is a 17-year-old junior specializing in creative and dramatic writing. She is from California and has recently joined the Young Writers Initiative as well as become a contributing writer for From The Future Magazine. Her writing has appeared in places such as Anatolios Magazine & Paper Crane Journal. It is set to be published in Miniskirt Magazine amongst others later this year. In her work, she aspires to heal, grow, and extend her arms to foster connections through writing. Her current works in progress consist of the ever-growing amount of magazines she submits works to, her second full-length novel, and a screenplay. She also avidly participates in theatre, which she believes has equipped her with the tools she often uses in her writing today. 

Mattie Ellis is a thirteen-year-old girl based in the United States. She has always loved writing from a young age, and has always been eager to share her work. Although she has never been published, she has loved writing from a young age and hopes others will be touched by her work.

Sophia Emy is a 17-year-old high school senior. She currently attends Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, but is originally from Brooklyn, New York. 

Benjamin Epstein is a 17 year old from Petaluma, California. Works by him can be found in The Milking Cat, The Weight, and Teen Ink.

Zo Estacio is 17 and resides in the Philippines. She is a HUMSS student with a love for the clouds. She can be found doing calligraphy and overanalyzing sitcoms in her spare time.

Halle Ewing is a 14-year-old from Southern California with a boundless love for all things poetry. She finds comfort and companionship in words placed on paper, and when she isn’t frantically trying to find the words to express her feelings, she’s playing piano, teasing her water polo team, or belting broadway songs in the shower (rather badly).

Umamah Farooq is a 17 year old poet from a small town in Pakistan. She loves to write poems on social issues and the ups and downs of life. You can read her work on her instagram blog @_i.writes_ . 

Olivia "Liv" Farrar is a nineteen-year-old hailing from the mountainous state of Colorado. Not only is she an award-winning poet, but has a forthcoming poem in Foothills Magazine. When she's not writing or reading, she's either baking near a toasty fire or making a fire in the wilderness. 

Lindy Feaster is a teenage poet from the Sonoran Desert. She is an avid music lover and climate activist. Among other things, she can usually be found talking to plants or listening to bluegrass. You can find more of her work in Dreamlism Magazine. 

Ai Li Feng, 14, is an aspiring author and amateur artist located in the United States. Her works are written primarily in lowercase letters, capitalizing proper nouns alone, a stylistic choice inspired by Latin and Ancient Greek, both of which she has studied. Her writing has been featured by Write the World and the Heritage Review. ​

Elena Ferrari is a fifteen year old from Cambridge, Massachusetts who has been writing poems on napkins for as long as she can remember. She enjoyed heading her middle school’s literary magazine in 7th and 8th grade and is excited to be contributing to her high school’s literary magazine. She has been awarded Scholastic Keys for her writing and also loves to express her creativity through watercolor doodles and camera lenses. 

isabella fiore is a seventeen year-old from suburban ontario. she enjoys prose, fall out boy, and wrapping herself in blankets like a burrito. her pieces detail anxiety, depression, sad love stories, and overall messiness. 

Ali Fishman is a seventeen year old from San Francisco, California. In addition to writing, she loves softball, basketball, volleyball, photography, and surfing. She has previously been published in Body Without Organs Literary Magazine, Always Naïve Zine, Chewing Dirt Literary Magazine, and Canvas Literary Magazine.

Teagan Fowlkes is a 17-year-old writer from Danville, Kentucky, USA. She is a homeschool student who recently attended Kentucky’s Governor’s School for the Arts’ scholarship program for creative writing. She has also been attending workshops at her local library and The Carnegie Center for Literacy for three years.

Liz Franzone is a 21-year-old senior at Saint Leo University and an English Major with a minor in Creative Writing. She hails from Tarpon Springs, Florida and has been writing creatively since high school. Last year, her poem "Song of the Lake" was submitted into Saint Leo's Literary Magazine The Sandhill Review.

Daisy Friedman is a 17-year-old from Omaha, Nebraska. She has been writing for her school paper for four years, and is currently the Editor In Chief. Additionally, she won a National Scholastic Gold Medal in Poetry, and a Regional Silver Key in Memoir.

Jonathan Fu is a rising senior at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He is an ardent Classicist, studying both Latin and Ancient Greek, and loves to translate poems as well as compose creative fiction and nonfiction pieces alike. His work has been published in The Trouvaille Review, and he has received recognition from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Caroline Funk is a 20-year-old junior studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. “The Leaves” is her first published work.

Gabrielle Galchen is a public high school NYC senior, where she has tried to pursue writing however possible (to be honest, she is semi-obsessed:)). Besides writing on her own, she is a mentee at Girls Write Now, a nonprofit organization that helps young women pursue their voice through writing. She’s also part of Climate Speaks, an organization committed to using spoken word poetry to spread the word about climate change. She often prefers poetry focusing on social justice or on her own experiences, yet also enjoys writing creative nonfiction and short stories. 

Keren-happuch Garba is a 17 year old Nigerian. She loves writing poetry and has a piece published on Teen Ink's Magazine. 

Valerye Hidalgo Garcia  is 18 and a first-year student at Syracuse University. She enjoys exploring ideas of self, grief, and existence in her writing. She began taking her writing seriously shortly after starting college and has since released a self-published poetry zine.
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N.C. Garza is a 15-year-old poet from Mexico. She has shown a passion for reading since she was a young child, and her love for writing began when she was a 12-year-old. Her work has been featured on WriteTheWorld, and she won a local short story competition. 

​Misty Gerber is a 14-year-old from Illinois. In her spare time, she loves to write, paint, and play sports. 

Lily Gerhard is a 16-year-old disabled writer from Orange County. When she's not writing you can find her playing dungeons and Dragons typically as a bard or hanging out with her dogs Flower and Poe. She is currently studying creative writing and hopes to pursue a career in middle-grade fiction.

Lucy Goerzen lives in Canada, and she is 13 years old. When she is not writing short stories she can be found working on her novel, which does not currently have a title. You can find her on Instagram @lucyyem._ or Spotify @rainy.daze​.

Mia Golden is 13 years old and lives in the Central Valley, California. She is an editor for the interstellar review, a lit magazine, and hopes to publish an anthology of poetry one day. Her writing has been featured on Write the World and Prose. Mia is passionate about activism and hopes that her writing can change the world for the better. 

Hunter Golder, 17, is a high school junior from York, Pennsylvania. Previously, Hunter has received an Honorable Mention in Poetry for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Writing both poetry and prose is Hunter's passion, and it is the career he dreams of pursuing after graduating from high school.

Katie Goldsmith is 17 years old and has lived in the United Kingdom all of her life. Previously, she has participated in writing competitions and has been published in a few children’s books throughout her time at school. Mainly, she writes for her own purpose and to reflect on her life. 

Kyrah Gomes is a 17 year old student living in NYC who loves poetry, literature, making jewelry, and authentic self-expression. In her free time, she can probably be found making super specific Spotify playlists. 

Pragyasha Goswami hails from a small state called Assam in India. She's a 14-year-old anxious teen, who loves to get lost in different fictional realms, and who is addicted to sitcoms! She has recently dabbled in poetry, seeking a way to pen down her thoughts. 

Astrid Gothard (she/her) is a fifteen-year-old freshman at LASA High School in Austin, Texas. Writing is the thing she loves most in the world (besides her family, friends, and dog, of course), and she mainly tells stories about experiencing the world as a young and queer person. When not writing, Astrid can be found laughing with her friends, training with her mountain bike racing team, or singing at the top of her lungs (but only when nobody else is around!) She has written many short stories and was published in the Austin Family magazine's young writers contest in 2017 and in the Austin Texas Youth Zine in 2021.

Dhwanee Goyal is a fifteen-year-old student from Maharashtra, India. When she's not trying to not fall asleep, she can be found reading, writing, or procrastinating. Pretty buildings make her heart beat fast, and she likes puns, sentences that trail off and...

Hannah Grove is a senior at Regis Jesuit High School in Denver, Colorado. She spends most of her free time hiking and backpacking, though she can also be found playing the banjo, baking, painting, and spending time with her family. Her work is featured in two youth poetry anthologies published by the American Library of Poetry, and she has written poetry casually for most of her upbringing. 

Xujia Guan is an international student from China currently studying in Canada. Her work has been published in Red Pocket Magazine, The World In Us, and forthcoming in Eunoia Review. Xujia is also an alumni of the Iowa Young Writers Studio 2022. Other than writing, she enjoys being a sports referee and listening to audio books.

Jordan Guerrero is a 15 year old highschool girl who attends the Orange County School of the Arts. She lives in southern California with her parents and sister, and she is an aspiring writer. She occasionally writes for student run magazines.

Praniti Gulyani is a 16-year-old writer from India.

Jennifer Gu is a 17-year-old high school senior from New Jersey. She enjoys writing and sharing moments of simple yet meaningful human connection. Jennifer has been nationally recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, is a passionate member of her school's literary magazine, and loves to read books in her free time.
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Flint Gusberry is the pen name of a teen who currently resides in Denver. They enjoy caffeinated hot chocolate, moody mornings, and fruit gum. 

Aida Guo is a 16-year-old artist and writer from North Carolina. She was the Editor-in-Chief of her school's literary magazine, and the Assistant Editor-in-Chief for her school's news site. In her free time, she enjoys listening to indie and K-pop music, writing letters to friends, teaching younger students, and spending time with her friends and family.

Sophia Guo is a 13-year-old from Massachusetts. Her writing has been published in multiple editions of The Voice, an online magazine, Anthology 12, and local organizations. She is a fierce believer in the written word -- her dream is to live as a writer and creator. Some other things she loves: drawing, violin, Jack Kerousac and Thoreau, appreciating any type of art, and abstract poetry. 

Elina Habib is a 12 year old from Virginia, USA. She has been writing for 5 years and enjoys creating new worlds, characters, and plot premises. Elina also enjoys exploring the world of screenwriting and scripting films. 

Mai Ly Hagan is a seventeen-year-old who grew up in Vietnam. She currently attends Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut. Her favorite ice cream flavor is green tea. 

Anangsha Haldar (she/her) is a 19 year old student from India, currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Psychology. Her poem is forthcoming in the Journal of Expressive Writing. She loves journaling, watching cat videos and napping.

Grace Haller sees herself perched in a café in Greenwich Village in 20 years, NY sipping an iced almond milk latte while writing poetry about the people walking the street. But until then, she enjoys reading any and every book she can find, watching the sunrises in the morning from her window in Florida where she lives, and fueling her obsession with Taylor Swift. She writes poetry to escape and cope with the stresses of everyday life, and her work has been featured in The WEIGHT and Teen Ink.

Natalie Hampton is a rising junior at the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in the Creative Writing Department. She has been recognized at the National level of the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition and by Ringling College of Art and Design. She serves as an editor at Polyphony Lit and Cathartic Literary Magazine. When she isn't writing, she likes to volunteer, work in activism, and play soccer.

Cindy (Ruobing) Han is currently a 17-year-old junior in high school. She was born and raised in Beijing China, and later immigrated to Toronto, Canada, with her family in grade 4. She has always believed in the magic and power of words and uses stories to reflect upon her own experiences. She was a gold key recipient and received an honorable mention in the Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards.

Taeyeon Han is a 17-year-old student in California. You can find his work scribbled down on loose-leaf paper. He has received a Gold Medal from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and has been published in Eunoia Review and the National Poetry Quarterly among others.

Liana Handler is 16 years-old from Coral Springs, Florida. She grew up in New England; though her family moved to Florida as she entered middle school. She has been writing continuously for about three years, but the Creative Arts had been encouraged in her household which allowed her to create and tell stories since she was a young girl.

Zinnia Hansen is a high school student and poet from Port Townsend Washington. She has a tendency towards abstraction, but a deep love of the idiosyncrasies that make us human. Her work has been published through the Young Writers Project, and she has participated in The Hugo House Young Writers Cohort.

Mikey Harper Mikey Harper is a 16-year-old transgender creative from Houston, Texas. He attends The Kinder High School For The Performing and Visual Arts as a sophomore in the Creative Writing department. You can find his fiction work published in the Augment Review."

Quan Harris-Holley is a 17-year-old African-American prose writer from Charlotte, NC. He is a rising high school senior who plays soccer and makes skits in his free time. 

Haze is a junior in creative writing at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco. They have work published in several literary publications, including Synchronized Chaos, The Weight Journal, and Parallax Journal, and have performed their poetry at the Youth Art Summit in San Francisco and 826 Valencia. When Haze is not writing, they can be spotted cuddling their three cats, holding their python, feeding their tarantula, or rescuing insects from being squashed.

Ashley Headrick is a 15 year old writer from Washington, DC. A Mensa member and recognized 'genius', Ashley has always had a love for language. She began her public career on the NBC game show Genius Jr, where her affinity for intellectual challenge was solidified. She began writing poetry and prose at just 10 years old, and has been recently published in Johns Hopkins Lexophilia literary magazine. Poetry is an essential part of her life and she is honored to share her work with readers.​

Felipe Rodolfo Hendriksen studies Literature at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. He currently lives in Quilmes.  

Alejandra Hernandez is an 8th grade student in the midwest United States. Her writing is inspired by personal experiences and true events that have occurred in her life. She hopes her poems spread awareness about the reality of mental health, and she hopes they can show other young people that they are not alone.

Hannah Holliday is an 18 year old disabled poet, mental health advocate, and creative writing major from Kansas. Her poetry appears in Elementia and many, many notebooks on her bedroom floor. She hopes to spend the rest of her life editing poetry while listening to Taylor Swift in the company of a multitude of cats.

​Maia Hillock-Katz was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently a 16-year-old sophomore at New Mexico School for the Arts, where she is majoring in creative writing. Maia has been published in the anthology Dreams of Montezuma 2 as well as The Ice Lolly Review and has won multiple gold and silver regional awards from the Scholastic Art and Writing program. You can find her running through arroyos, writing poetry and geeking out over compost.
 
Channie Hong, age 16, a sophomore at Saratoga High in Silicon Valley, has written poetry seriously for three years now and regards himself fortunate to have been published not only in youth literary journals but adult ones as well. He has also received awards for his work from various organizations including Scholastic Arts and Writing Regional Awards. Besides poetry, Channie is a cellist and a swimmer. Aside from school work, these three activities have kept him busy even during these dark days of the pandemic.

Claire Hong is a sixteen-year-old high school junior from the Bay Area, California. She is an aspiring poet who enjoys writing about identity and heritage.

Eleanor Horne is a 17-year-old student living in London, England. She has been previously published in two poetry anthologies for Young Writers UK, and her work primarily focuses on identity and belonging. Her passions include film, literature, and gardening. When she is not writing she is doting on her muse and confidant, Jenkins the cat.

Naomi Horner is a 15-year-old from the United States of America. She has previous writing experience through Write the World and YA Writer's Club (under a pen name). Naomi likes writing free-verse poetry without capital letters and using metaphors without abandon. She enjoys singing, reading, cooking, and watching the rain fall outside her window. 

Allison Hsu is a 17-year-old student from Cupertino, California who loves her dog, meeting new people, and the smell of fresh-brewed coffee. She shares her prose and slices of her life on her corner of the internet, @sincerelyalie on Instagram.

Elizabeth Hsu is a fifteen-year-old from Houston, Texas. Her poetry has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and she can be spotted… nowhere, as she never leaves the house.

Matt Hsu is a 17-year-old student from San Francisco, California. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis and eating dark chocolate. He writes about things like romance and Christmas trees, but he makes it spooky because it's more fun that way. Currently he's working on a mystery novel about a lonely assassin.

Andrea Huang, a lost 16 year old high school student from Taiwan, is currently still trying to discover her voice and beauty in the world despite being hit with waves after waves of hopelessness. As for now, she enjoys filing complaints about herself through prose/poetry on online writing sites. 

Jackie Huang is a 16 year old high schooler from Beijing China and New York. As an avid writer, especially in poetry, she loves to express deeper meanings and issues in concise words. Her work has been published on TeenInk, Risenzine and regionally recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Lillian Colette Hughes is a two-time NaNoWriMo winner currently known in South Carolina as Summerville’s favorite young author. She’s an avid creator of new works of fiction and often can’t stop thinking about story ideas (which she doesn’t mind). When she isn’t writing, she enjoys creating music with her band, spending time with her pets, and learning to become a falconer. Lillian self-published her first book, The Golden Fur, at the age of eleven, and was awarded a 2020 Regional Gold Key by Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for her second novel, A Long Winter’s Journey. Now just fourteen years old and seventy thousand words into her third novel, Foxheart, Lillian is sure to have many more stories to share with you, her treasured readers, in the years to come.

Danielle Hutchinson is a sixteen-year-old who lives in Cornwall. Although her work varies from fiction to non-fiction, articles to poetry, it is uniform in its exploration of contemporary issues. Her passion for the environment has led to her poetry being featured in a charitable anthology ‘Planet in Peril’ and a scientific essay about human-induced vs. natural climate change being published in ‘The Scholar’ magazine.

Elyse Hwang is a 15-year-old writer from the Los Angeles area.  She works for her school's literary magazine and has had her work recognized by the PTA's Reflection Contest.  When not writing or musing about her future, you can find her wondering where her childhood has gone.

June Hyung Kim is a 13-year-old student from South Korea. He is currently studying in Manila, Philippines, and enjoys writing about his experiences from traveling. His work has been previously published in various places.

Lauren Hyunseo Cho is a 17-year old published poet based in Seoul, South Korea. She has her poems forthcoming, pending on editorial review, or published in CrashTest Magazine, Teen Ink, Ice Lolly Review, LiveWire, and more. She is interested in issues of multicultural advocacy, feminism, and philosophy. Her love for writing serves to produce poems and stories of her take on these ideas.

Malak Ibrahim is in her junior year of high school and currently resides in Pennsylvania. She holds the privilege of being the Editor-in-Chief of her school's newspaper as well as being a Cappies Critic. 

D.Y. Ink is a 13-year-old writer living in the American South who finds her footing in the lack of one. You can find her writing at Write the World or Prose. 

Kian Iuchi-Fung is a 15 year old non-binary writer and music producer from the California Bay Area. Their experience as a gender non-conforming person of color gives them an interesting outlook on the social construction of gender and the absent-minded emphasis that we put on it in our everyday lives. Their influences range from French classics to 90s anime to other queer and GNC poets.

Madhalasa Iyer (16) is from Texas and is passionate about many things: writing till she has used up all her pens, wearing out the pages of books, finding heuristic solutions to all her problems and dreaming with her eyes open. In the future, she hopes to live in a society where equality isn't a question and where we are all fluent in the language of compassion. Her work has previously been published in Best Teen Writing Journal and Scars Publications and she is a speaker for both TEDX and EarthX. 

Asra Jafarey is a 20 year old university student from Pakistan who enjoys all forms of art and shares her own on her Instagram page @lilacfingertips.

Rishabh Jain is an 18-year-old writer from India. He writes as a hobby and has been doing so for around a year. You can find him at @theritingritual on Twitter and theritingritual.wordpress.com to check out his blog.

Vidushi Jain is a fourteen year-old high school student from New Delhi, India. She is a collector of words, classics literature enthusiast and F1 fanatic. Her work is a deal of joy and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. She plans to pursue computer science in her future. You can find her at https://starvidushijain.blogspot.com/ 

Reilly James is a sixteen year old writer living in Beverly Hills, California. After moving there from rural Australia, she's found her goal in life- to successfully publish her work. 

Lexi Janssen is fifteen years old and a resident in Denver, Colorado. Her writing experience is being a staff writer for another magazine company called Second Revolution. She has a huge passion for writing that she is currently working on a book called December. She loves to write about anything that has hit home or has a huge passion. One of her goals is to become a teen advocating for mental health issues and teens with disabilities. In her free time she loves to write, read, hang out with friends and family, and go to her youth group. 

Alice Jeong has turned thirteen. She loves to travel worldwide, and she is much of a dog person. She is currently living in Korea.

Kate-Yeonjae Jeong is based in Houston, Texas, where she studies in downtown with a concentration in creative writing. She is fifteen years old, and has had pieces recognized in various publications such as the Polemical Zine, 101 Words, and Silly Gal Magazine. In her free time, you’ll likely find her volunteering at the local hospital or staying active with tennis.

Meenakshi Jha is a 16 year old writer , singer , guitarist and artist . She is currently a high-school senior based in New Delhi , India . In her free time , you can either find her socialising with people on Tumblr through her poetry blog or learning Spanish and Turkish . To EveryBODY Out There’ is going to be her first published piece.  

Iama Jia is a twenty-year-old violin prodigy. One day, she would like to be published in Adroit. Alongside a professional violin soloist, she would like to be a New York Times Bestselling author like J. K. Rowling and have her fantasy series be made into blockbusters.

Megumi Jindo is an upcoming junior who lives in NYC where writing (and music) are a means of catharsis for her. Previously, she contributed and is an editor to her school lit magazine, a Poetry Beta Reader for the YEW, as well as an editor for RevPub. Always writing stories since she was little—she has been published in various publications and has won multiple acknowledgements for her work. She especially loves writing prose in the form of poems, songs, fiction, and creative nonfiction--portraying experiences from her life. She hopes that people who read her stories will be inspired and that her stories will change the world for the better.

Ayiyi Joel is an 18 year old budding poet from Edo state in Nigeria. His works have appeared on the beatnik cowboy, synchronized chaos and elsewhere.

Varada Kaiga is from India. She is 22 years old. She reads a lot and thinks a lot. That sums up why she loves to write. She started writing in her Instagram page recently. She wants to impact the world through her writings. When she writes, it calms her mind. It makes her feel belonged. And she is really looking forward to achieving something in this field. 

AM Kamaal is a Nigerian poet and writer. When he's not writing, he reads Ezra Pound, and Jericho Brown, listens to Àyìnlá Ọmọwúrà songs, and watches Hollywood. He is 19 years old. 

Emma Kamara is a 14 year old girl from Richmond, Virginia. She is originally from South New Jersey, and just moved to the east-central Virginia Area.
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Simon Kaminar is a sophomore (age 15) at HSMSE in NYC. His passions include the outdoors, learning about historical figures and events, and playing the guitar or other string instruments.

Minsung Kang is a 15 years old student living in the Philippines. He likes playing football and basketball with his friends as well as listening to Ballads. He is also interested in studying science, especially physics.  

Jasmine Kapadia is a 16-year-old poet from the Bay Area. She has work featured or forthcoming in Same Faces, The Daphne Review, Malala Fund's Assembly, the Eunoia Review, and The Rising Phoenix Review, among others. Find her on Instagram @jazzymoons

Lani Kasperovic is a 17-year-old from Australia. She has been published in three Australian youth collections. Lani has also participated in online publications and editing assistance for three years.

Teo Kate-Lyn is a 19-year-old from Singapore. She has always loved to write as a way of expressing her feelings - especially when she takes a strong stance on an issue.

Anaya Kaul is 12 years old and lives in Henrico County (Richmond, Virginia). She has entered in the PTA Reflections contest twice and takes Creative Advisory writing class at school. Furthermore, she writes stories and poems a lot in her free time and hopes to become a poet some day as well as publish them to New York Times!   

Harsimran Kaur (b. 2004) is an author of The Best I Can Do Is to Write My Heart Out, I am Perfectly Imperfect, and Clementines on My Poetry Table. Currently a senior in high school, she is a record holder under the India Book of Records and Asia Book of Records for her first publication at fourteen. She is also the founder of Pastlores, an online club dedicated to literature, and an arts organization called The Creative Zine. She has also been awarded a Gold Award for her entry in the Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2021 by the Royal Commonwealth Society. When she's not writing or reading, she can often be seen teaching invisible students. You can know more about her ventures at www.harsimranwritesbooks.com/.

Amanda Kay is a current sophomore at Santa Clara High School in California, USA. She enjoys swimming, reading, and drinking a good cup of tea. In her free time, she likes to write revenge stories with her best friend (especially about a certain reptilian) and has enjoyed writing for most of her life.

Kyra Kaya is a 17 year old Native Hawaiian author from Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Kyra enjoys writing stories about the people and events that have impacted her life. She has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for her work. When not writing, she enjoys baking chocolate chip cookies, swimming at the beach, and perfecting her Mario Kart skills.

Emma Keas is a 14-year-old writer from California. She is currently in a love triangle with poetry and art and spending her time maintaining a hold on both. When she is not professing her love for them, she is either taking a swim in her mind or fresh from a dip in its waters.

Christ Keivom, 21 from India, is an undergraduate literature student at Delhi University. His work has previously appeared on Novus Literary Arts Journal, Charmolypi Literary Review, Write now lit. You can reach out to him on Instagram @passmethecigarettes.
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Sophie Kessler is a 15 year old girl living in New Jersey.

Lori Khadse is a 17 year old writer from New Jersey and the founder of The Elysian Muse Youth Literary Magazine. Her works are published or upcoming in literary journals like Polyphony Lit, the Apprentice Writer, Short Édition, and A Lack of Clarity. When she isn't writing, she loves to strum at her guitar and make hot chocolate!

Laiba Karim Khan is a student from Karachi, Pakistan. She is eighteen years old and has previously studied biological sciences. She started writing since she was fifteen and mostly wrote poetry and lyrical narratives. Although she now writes articles and writes other creative writing genres, she still is passionate about writing.

Michael Kharadze is a 16-years-old writer from Tbilisi, Georgia.

Ashley Kim is a high school senior from Orange County, California. She has been recognized by the 2020 and 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards with an Honorable Mention for short story and a Silver Key for poetry, as well as has been published in Euphemism Magazine. Some of Ashley’s favorite things to do include making music, writing poems, and watching Marvel movies with friends.

Doeun (Jessica) Kim is a 14-year-old, born in South Korea and currently studying at the International School of Manila. Her work has been recognised by The Heritage Review and Austin Poets International. She enjoys writing flash fiction in her spare time, inspired by her culture and identity.

Isabelle Kim-Sherman is a seventeen-year-old from Santa Barbara, California. Her work has been published in Tablet Magazine as well as in two California Poets in the Schools Statewide Anthologies. She has attended the California State Summer School for the Arts with a focus on creative writing and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio with a focus on TV writing. She also enjoys playing the violin and the piano.


Imogene Kincaid lives in a small town in Arizona. She is 17 and a senior in high school. She loves to read, write, dream, and spend time with her cat. Imogene mainly writes poetry and flash fiction. 

Hwisung Ko is a 13-year-old who is from the country of the Republic of Korea. He enjoys drinking hot tea on sunday mornings while listening to calm music. 

Evelína Kolářová (she/her) is a 21-year-old writer from the Czech Republic whose poems have been previously published in literary magazines such as Really System or Sink Hollow. Her work has made the finalist list of the Poetry Matters Project's Literary Prize 2019. She is currently studying an undergraduate programme at the University of South Bohemia and is the Editor in Chief and Social Media Manager of a student magazine published at the Faculty of Arts. 

Caitlyn Kong is 11 years old, close to being 12. She was born in Washington, and her dad is from China while her mom is from Taiwan. She has loved writing since as long as she can remember. Currently, she has a writer's blog, in which she writes fiction stories as well as events from her life. Check it out at http://readlaughandfun.com.

Gina Kotinek is a seventeen-year-old writer and senior from Mansfield High School in Texas. She is interested in social issues and enjoys implementing them into her writing in hopes that her message will be heard.

Siddharth Krishna is a 20-year-old from Coimbatore, India, and currently studies at the Kumaraguru College of Technology. He has been writing since he got the opportunity to write a short story for a book called Catapult with 20 other young people. He has written short stories and non-fiction articles for college clubs as well.

ZiQing Kuang is a 15-year-old from Arizona. She interned with Girls' Life Mag over the past couple months and is working with Five Star Journal at the moment.

Anoushka Kumar is a 15-year-old writer from Mumbai, India who loves labradoodles, indie rock and feminist/queer activism. You can find most of her work on Write the World and the prose.com.

Sophia Kunkel is an 18 year old literature-lovin’ high school senior from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, though she has also lived in Indiana and Texas (the latter of which was her favorite). She has been writing as long as she can remember, and currently, has several complete fiction novel drafts; poetry is a genre that she only dabbles in. Sophia also serves as Marketing Director for The Young Writers Initiative in her free time and co-owns a popular writing tips account on Instagram, too. 

Jeyoung Kyun, born in South Korea, is a 9th grade student in Atlanta’s Chattahoochee High School. He loves to draw sketches of animals in his free time and likes to watch Netflix, read grotesque mystery fantasy and sleep. He loves Korean barbecue and Japanese ramen. This is his first publication.

Minha Kyun is 13 years old girl living in Georgia, USA. Her nationality is Korea, although she was born in Sri-Lanka and lived in various countries and states such as Virginia, USA, the Philippines, South Korea, and Sri-Lanka. She wrote few writings in school, back in the Philippines, but after she moved to Georgia, she barely wrote any. She started to write again about two months ago by attending a writing class. This is her first time submitting her writing. 

Minjung Kyun is an 18-year-old from South Korea attending Chattahoochee High School in the United States. She has been to eight different schools in five different countries. She has been recognized by the Scholastics Arts and Writing Awards and has published her writing in various places such as K’in Literary Journal and Heritage Review.

May Lafer-Kirtner is fourteen, and lives in Eugene, OR.  When she  was eight years old,  she  discovered that she could write stories like the ones she read, and from then on, she knew she had to be a writer. She has had two poems previously published, one in a smash school magazine and one in The Weight Journal.

Zoe Lai is an international student in the Western Reserve Academy class of 2022 from Shenzhen, China. She is currently nineteen years old. The Greenest of Pastures is her first attempt at writing a short story.

Sariah Lake is a fifteen-year-old high school student from the Caribbean. She hopes to create writing that all audiences can relate to and feel seen and encouraged by. Her work can be found online on her blog, sarissshelves.blogspot.com or her Instagram page sariwrites_

Mercuri Lam is a 16-year-old writer from Texas and Connecticut. They love stars and languages, dead ones preferred. They have a forthcoming publication in Yuvaah Magazine and attended the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop. You can find their Instagram at @harajunnku.

Norah Laughter is a writer from Russellville, Kentucky who attends Greenwood High School in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She is 17. She is the Editor-in-Chief of her school’s literary magazine, Agora, but she is also a published student journalist who appears in publications like the Lexington Herald-Leader, the Louisville Courier Journal, and the Aspen Institute. She used to hate poetry, but now she hates it a lot less. 

Ashton Le is 17 years old and currently attends Evergreen Valley Highschool. His hobbies include playing guitar, video games, and writing. Unfortunately, he discovered his love for writing a little bit late, but still hopes to become a novelist.
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Rachel Lechwar is a 19-year-old English Creative Writing major from Florida. She was previously the Editor-in-Chief of her high school's literary magazine and has short stories published in the Florida Times Union. 

Paris LeClaire is a fifteen-year-old sophomore from West Michigan. Paris has been writing all through her childhood, and she never plans to stop. Her prior work has been featured in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. 

Amy Lee is a 12-year-old writer from South Korea. She was born in Germany, and moved to the Philippines at a young age. She enjoys writing and reading fantasy, poetry and many other genres of books. This is her first publication.

Avalon Felice Lee is a 16-year-old California native. She enjoys writing trippy revenge fan-fics about chameleons with her best friend. Like most Asian kids who write for fun, she plays a stringed instrument.​

Brian Lee is a 19-year-old aspiring writer and poet from Singapore, who identifies as neurodivergent. Having grown up in three different countries, he writes in an attempt to remember and recreate spaces of memory. He is inspired by our fundamental need to return and belong.

Erin Lee is a 17-year-old Asian-American from North Carolina who writes mini essays analyzing characters for fun. They have been reading and writing since they could form coherent, independent thought, and they haven't really stopped since then. Their works can be found on various sites, including (but not limited to) the Among the Branches zine and this magazine.

Gracie Lee (16) is from San Diego, CA. She often writes poetry and short stories, and is a former silver key medalist winner from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Isabelle Lee, age 17, in her fourth year of study at Silicon Valley’s Poetry Power finds herself growing closer and closer to this genre as she goes along. She has received a number of publications from adult literary magazines, including CA’s Song of the San Joaquin in 2018, IL’s WestWard Quarterly in 2019, AZ’s The Avocet for a showcase of outstanding nature poetry in 2020 and 2021, and, most recently, TX’s Lone Star Magazine. Isabelle is proudest of recognition from Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, Conceit Magazine’s international poetry award, and publication twice in Girls Right the World, an international journal. 

Janna K Lee is a 19 year old female who is currently a freshman at Colorado Mesa University studying nursing. Born in Alabama, she has lived and grown up in Littleton, Colorado for 10 years. She has excelled in writing in her classes throughout her educational career. This is the first piece she is submitting for publication as encouraged by her professor.

Jeniffer Lee goes to school in Jeju Island, South Korea. She loves to write, play volleyball, and do community service activities like clean up local beaches. Her work has previously appeared in the Ice Lolly Review.

Katherine Lee, age 16, a sophomore at Fremont High School in Silicon Valley, has studied poetry seriously for two years now and grows steadily in her enthusiasm for the genre. Happily, she has had seven of her poems published in different states and received recognition in the form of two awards. Recently, the Mayor of Sunnyvale has also invited her to read her poem at an online city council meeting. Her personal essay, "Journey Through Notes," recently took Third Place in the national Soul Making Keats Literary Awards in San Francisco.

Kay Lee is a ninth-grader attending Korea International School in Seoul, South Korea. She is currently putting together her writing portfolio to apply to creative writing summer camps.

Lauren Lee is a Junior attending Yongsan International High School in Seoul, South Korea. She is currently building her creative writing portfolio in preparation for enrollment in a university. Her other hobbies include volleyball and baking. 

My name is Nolan Lee. I am 15 years old at the time of writing (I turn 16 on September 7th). I was born in and live in New Jersey, though my parents are both Korean immigrants. While I have submitted to other magazines, I have not yet been accepted.

Olivia Lee is a 14-year-old from Alabama and California. This is the first piece of writing she has submitted anywhere and she has had an interest in creative writing since early 2020. 

Helen Lei is a 16-year-old from Canada whose work has been published in the Young Voices Magazine. She also writes and edits for her school's newspaper.  Aside from writing, she enjoys reading webtoons and stalking Instagram cat accounts in her spare time.

Stella Lei is a sixteen-year-old writer from the suburbs of Pennsylvania. She is on the staff of her school's literary magazine, and her work has been nationally recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Amelia Lenz is a highschool Junior from the United States, Georgia. She is sixteen years old, and she works part-time as an assistant at a small law firm. Her poetry has also appeared in The WEIGHT Journal. When not writing, she enjoys crocheting, drawing, playing with her dog, and indulging in her tea addiction.

Oz Leshem is a fifteen year old poet from Taos, New Mexico. Oz attends New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Oz was a finalist for the 2020 Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate and a silver medalist in the 2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for Poetry. Recently, Oz was selected as a 2020 Miller Scholar for excellence in Creative Writing at New Mexico School for the Arts. 

Elise Lester is a 14-year-old gender non-conforming writer from Christchurch, New Zealand. They have been writing since they were 10, and enjoys writing short stories and poetry for their school news and competitions, as well as art and illustration. They are currently working on their first novel, based around the twelve Zodiac signs. As a young LGBT+ writer, Elise aims to share their struggles with identity and stigma through their writing. 

Hannah Levin is a 13-year-old from Tucson, Arizona. She has won several poetry contests, including some through her school, and wants to continue writing.

Caroline Levin-Cardenas is a 16-year-old writer from South Florida. She has won school writing competitions and is now looking to branch out and work towards being published. She dreams of being a screenwriter who is able to create content with the quality representation diverse audiences deserve.

Amy Li is a rising sophomore at Richmond Hill High School in Georgia. She enjoys photography, playing piano, and procrastinating. You can find her on Instagram @twinkie_pamphlet.

Claire Li is a high school student from Washington. In her free time, she enjoys all things creative, including reading, writing, and bothering her cats, though she should probably be learning how to cook so that she avoids blowing up anyone's kitchen in the future. Her work has been selected previously for the Bluefire 1000 word contest.

Elizabeth Li is a sixteen year old from Canada. Her work has received Honorable Mentions from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and also appears in the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop 2021 Anthology. In her free time, she enjoys reading Webtoons and having existential crises. 

Jessica Li is a seventeen-year-old girl from Broadview Heights, Ohio. She started writing fiction stories her senior year of High School. This is her second attempt at writing literary work.

Jinhan Li is an 11th grade student studying in the Philippines at International School Manila. He is currently 16 years old. He enjoys to write about his travel experiences.

Avery Lim is a 15-year-old student living in Singapore. She has submitted many works of literature under various names on various platforms and was a member of her country's Creative Arts Programme. In her spare time she enjoys painting, cooking and strumming her guitar.

Chris Lim is a high school junior attending the British School Manila. He has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards with a National Medal, and his works have been recognized by journals such as K’in Literary Journal, Eunoia Review, What Rough Beast, and Heritage Review. He is also the co-founder of Celestal Review – an online literary magazine that publishes on a quarterly basis. Aside from creative writing, he frequently enjoys attending MUN conferences and swimming on a hot day.

Natasha Lim is an 18-year-old writer from Singapore. She is a final-year psychology student, and writes to express all the things she can’t say. In her spare time, she enjoys drinking copious amounts of coffee and reading books that make her cry.

Preston Lim is a 16-year-old Singaporean-American Junior at Kinder HSPVA, where they major in Creative Writing. They were born in Singapore and moved to Texas when they were about eight. They’re fond of dimmed lights and the way that sidewalks look after rain. In their free time, they love to skate and listen to music.

Kamryn Lin (they/them) is a seventeen-year-old high school student in South Central Kentucky.  They are the current art editor of the Agora Literary Magazine at their school, Greenwood High School, and loves to write poetry. Along with writing poetry, they create a lot of art which has achieved regional recognition in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. They are also a Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts Alumni. 

Naomi Ling is an emerging student writer and poet on the East Coast, USA. Her poetry and prose often grapple with the bare and the unknown, nostalgia and new love, childhood and womanhood. She has been recognized by the 2019 Scholastic Writing Awards and several acclaimed journals. When she's not writing, you can find her swooning over SZA, devising lame pick-up lines for her friends, or drowning herself in Vietnamese iced coffee.

Daniel Liu is a student at Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, FL. He is first, a Swiftie, then a poet, then an all-state cellist, and then a debater. He has been published in the Page 15 Anthology, a Just Poetry!!! Anthology and his school’s literary magazine. You can find his other work at https://sacred-apollo.blogspot.com/.

Samantha Liu is a sixteen year-old writer from New Jersey. Her works have been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and The New York Times and have appeared in Blue Marble, The Eunoia Review, The Lumiere Review, and more. When she is not writing, you can find her discovering obscure Spotify artists.

Caroline Lloyd-Jones is a 16-year-old junior at New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL. Her love for English and writing developed in her Freshman year English class, where she learned to use writing as a healthy coping mechanism. Her passions lie in mental health education and equality, using her own experiences and challenges to help motivate both herself and others.

Kaylee Lock is a 15 year old writer living in the suburbs of Maryland. She takes regular creative writing classes at her high school. After graduation, she aspires to further her writing career and seek further publication opportunities.

Shaun Loh is a 17 year old student from Singapore. As a national Creative Arts Program poet, he has been published in Amber: The Teenage Chapbook and An Atelier of Healing: Poetry About Trauma and Recovery. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of his school newspaper, Raffles Press.

​Desiree Lomick is a 20-year-old from and currently living in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a college student who majors in psychology and minors in creative writing, and her writing experience includes pieces she has written for class and for herself. 

Avery London is a 15-year-old junior at Sacramento Waldorf School in Fair Oaks, CA. They've lived most of their life in the foothills of Northern California. As an Okinawan Jew, cultural and religious identity informs their fiction and nonfiction work. They enjoy experimental and free-verse poetry, and always love a good flash fiction piece over tea!

Luiza Louback is a 17-year-old Brazilian girl. Passionate about literature, beyond reading and writing, she founded a social literary project, advocating the right to read in Latin America. Luiza won scholarships in the Cambridge Immerse Essay Competition and first place in the IFMG poetry competition.

Lexi Lynn is an aspiring writer from Northern California. Her work has been recognized in The Weight Literary Magazine and she is working towards more publications. In her free time, she reads excessive amounts of classic literature, takes naps in the sunshine, and stays outside as much as she possibly can. 

Meg Lyons is a 20-year-old junior studying Psychology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. After taking an Introduction to Creative Writing course in college, Meg found solace in writing about her personal struggles with mental health and eating. With no prior writing experience, “Dad, What’s for Dinner” is her first published work. 

Ash M is a writer from Ontario, Canada, who has spent most of her life travelling. As a fifteen-year-old currently in high school, she hopes to publish a novel someday. When she's not writing, you can find her painting or wandering her neighbourhood looking for inspiration.

Valerie Mae is a 13-year-old author who lives in New South Wales, Australia.

Nandini Rabindra Maharana is 16 years old and lives in Delhi, India. She is an editor for her school magazine and also a member of an independent teen-led organisation which works in bringing awareness amongst people about sensitive issues like domestic violence, mental health, etc. She has previously participated in Queens Commonwealth Essay and won a bronze medal. She loves to read and write stuff. Also she has an Instagram handle (@_flickeringchaos_) where she posts writeups to spread hope and happiness.

Alaa Maher is a 17 year old girl from Egypt. This her first publication.

Anushka Maity is a 16 year old sophomore from Kolkata, India who currently spends her days staring at the computer screen for prolonged hours, reading fantasy novels and dreaming of gaining recognition as an author some day. A professionally trained classical dancer, her other hobbies include journaling, photography, making sketches of haute couture and correcting grammatical errors. Burdened with academic pressure, she seeks sanctuary in the phenomenal realm of books while simultaneously trying to figure out the labyrinth of life. 

Maryam Majid is a teen Muslim girl who lives in Britain, and loves writing long, slightly strange stories and would like to hone this craft as long as she lives. Her preferred form of procrastination is bingeing political commentary podcasts and getting through classics very slowly. Previously her piece "soror mea; amica mea" has been published in Issue V of the Blue Things Zine. You can find her sparingly shared ramblings at https://maryamkhatu.substack.com.

Syna Majumder (16) is a high schooler from India who loves to talk about any movie she might have seen. Her work has been published in school magazines and a local newspaper as well as winning a country-spanning Essay writing competition. You can find her @fuzz_pedals on Instagram.   

Nikhita Makam is 16 years old, too young to know much but too old to get away with things. She is the author of '14 works by a 14 year old' and calls herself a 'high school student by day, poet by night'. She believes that poetry has power, something that her mother taught her. She finds happiness in reading, writing, gardening, octopuses, and wondering about ladybugs. She tries her best to maintain a balance between all of her hobbies, school and the common dreaded enemy to all high school students- homework.

Bhavika Malik is a high school freshman from Gurgaon, India. She is fourteen, and she recently began writing. Her work was published in the Ice Lolly Review a while back.

Tamanna Malik is a nineteen year old English Literature student at University of Delhi. She has contributed articles to ‘The Quint’ and ‘LiveWire’. She has also made contributions to online and print literary journals like ‘The Indian Periodical’, ‘The Writers Club’, ‘Bitacora’. You can find her on Instagram- @tamannaamalik

Roshni Veronika Mallick is a 17 year old Indian girl who belongs to a tribe. She grew up listening to folktales and folk songs; therefore, it isn't a surprise that she loves reading and writing stories. She believes in the innate power of storytelling; writing makes her an uncontainable and expansive female. She loves watching horror movies and is also a dubbing/voice artist.

TM is a 16 year old New York native who currently lives in Vermont. In her free time, she enjoys nature-based activities and more recently, baking and cooking. She takes inspiration from her environment as well as little pieces of her life.

Clarissa Mae Maravilla is a 16-year-old from the Philippines. She started writing when she was 8 years old. Writing such stories and poetries somehow became a hobby at the same time as her passion. It's her stress relief, and whenever she is writing the words that she bleeds, it inspires her to continue living her life to fulfill her purpose. 

Clio Marcus is 16 years old and a Junior at Montclair High School in New Jersey. English/Language Arts has always been her favorite class and she greatly enjoys writing in her free time. Now she is trying to take her hobby to the next level by possibly getting some of her pieces published!

Maria-Anna Maridi is a sophomore in high-school from Greece, as well as an aspiring fiction writer, writer and editor for the Teen Magazine, as well as co-founder of a youth organisation called Coequalorg.

Malena Mayell is a 16-year-old aspiring writer in Oregon. She has been writing stories since 2nd grade and her poetry has previously been published in The Weight Journal. 

Keira E. McDonough is a 16-year-old novelist and short fiction writer from outside of Boston, Massachusetts, and this will be her first publication. You can find her on Twitter at @keiramicks. 

Sonia Mehta is an emerging writer and a junior at a high school in Central Ohio. Sonia started writing poetry as a child, but by high school, while she still loved the beauty of poetry, the writer felt the solitude it imposed. She switched to prose. According to Miss Mehta, “In the world of fiction writing, I am always in the company of the characters I am creating.” Sonia submitted several of her works to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. They won a gold and two silver keys. Her story “Porch” went on to win a National Gold Medal in 2020. Other stories have been published in the Secret Attic, the Blue Marble Review, and the Apprentice Writer. Currently, Miss Mehta is an editor of Polyphony Lit Magazine.

Anika Meisel is an 18-year-old from Seattle, Washington. Currently a Senior at Garfield High School, she has been playing violin for thirteen years. As an adoptee from Fuling, Sichuan Province, China, her Chinese heritage is one of the most prevalent topics in her writing, along with that of music. In the future, she hopes to join an orchestra, but wouldn't mind writing program notes on the side — something she has done for the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Isabella Melians is 16 years old and attends school in south Florida. She is part of a writing club at her high school, where she functions as the vice president. In this club, they write weekly and share to get feedback. From there, she looks to get my poetry published in different media.

Ella Mevissen is a 14 year old girl living in the United States. She finds solace in creation, and her favorite hobby is making words into art. You can find her dancing in the moonlight, singing with the birds, and finding the simple joys in life. Her work has been published or forthcoming in the Ice Lolly Review and Write The World.

Lauren Mills is seventeen and feels it in her bones. She is from a small town in North Carolina and is thankful for the many quaint experiences it has brought her. When not writing, she enjoys climbing trees, baking, or napping. 

Anvii Mishra is a 17-year-old high school student from Noida, India. She hopes to pursue psychology someday.

Garima Mishra is a 19 year old student of microbial sciences from India. Her works have appeared in Borderless Journal, Inertia Teens and elsewhere. 

Adya Mohapatra is a 16-year-old from Washington. She is excited to contribute work to this magazine and add to her previous writing experience. She has published works on another website designed for teens, and she has always enjoyed participating in local writing competitions. She is also in charge of her school’s news site, where they post global and local news, opinion pieces, reviews, and featured topics.

Miceala Morano is a 17-year-old poet from Arkansas. She has previously been published in Footnotes, Project Said, Ice Lolly Review, Paper Crane Journal, and Intersections Mag. She is a 2021 Foyle Commended Young Poet and the 2021 Arkansas Scholastic Press Association's Literary Magazine Writer of the Year, and her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Writers and Artists and the Ozark Writers League. 

Ronnie Moshkoviz is a 17 year-old high school student from Closter, NJ. She is passionate about advocating for better mental health policies within her school community. With help from her AP English Language & Composition teacher, she wrote this article with the hopes of inspiring others and helping them know that someone is on their side. 

Dee Mohammed is a 17-year-old writer from Texas. Her past publications include The Weight Journal and Life in 10 Minutes Lit Mag. Her current obsessions include David Bowie, funky socks, and guava tea.

Emma Mujica is a fourteen-year old girl from Agency, Missouri. She has been writing in some form her whole life, but only started writing poetry a few years ago. She enjoys the cathartic experience. No pun intended.

Erin Mullens has been writing since she was 11 years old, which is not a very long time when you consider that she is only a sophomore in high school. She lives in Montgomery Country, Maryland, and when she’s not writing, she’s probably reading War and Peace or studying. You can find her on Instagram at @phemios_minstrel. 

Kennedi Munson is a 15-year-old blogger, photographer, and artist based in Mexico City. Her writing experience predominantly consists of her blog (koigopop ) which focuses on the issues of marginalized individuals, along with a variety of forms of poetic writing. Having lived there for over 5 years, Kennedi managed to learn about both the essence of community and culture, but also the beauty within herself and individuals around the world. 

Sarah Hall Murphy is a writer from the North of England. She has had work previously in BRAG Magazine,  poetry society anthology, Interstellar Lit, streetcake magazine, Aah magazine and Paper Crane Outstanding Young Writers Anthology.

Dami Mustapha is a 17 year old high school senior from Fort Worth, TX who enjoys writing poetry in her free time along with baking. Things from cupcakes to lemon bars. She has a dream to change the world one word at a time and is slowly making it into a reality. She has been writing poetry for a year in a half and wishes to continue through college.   

Stacey Na is a senior in high school from Bergen County. She is the lead editorial director for her school's literary magazine, as well as the lead editor for her school newspaper. Her writing has won her a scholastic writing awards NJ honorable mention, as well as a finalist award in the Bergen County High School Writing Contest.

Vindhya Nagandla is a 13-year-old how goes to George H. Moody Middle School in Richmond, VA. She has been writing since fifth grade. In seventh grade, she took a Creative Writing class and has still been taking it.

Tanvi Nagar is a student of class 11 at Delhi Public School, Gurgaon. She has been writing for the past eight years and is passionate about public speaking, travelling, playing sports and reading. She has contributed to national newspapers like ‘The Times of India’ and ‘Hindustan Times’; magazines like the ‘Neev Magazine’ ‘Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine’ ‘Anti-Heroin Chic’ ‘Ice Lolly Review’ ‘The Hearth Magazine’ ‘Elysian Muse Magazine’ ‘The Weight Journal’ ‘Secret Attic’ ‘Life in 10 Minutes Magazine’ ‘Risen Zine’ and ‘Children’s World’ and anthologies like ‘The Last Flower of Spring’ and ‘Riding on a Summer Train’ by Delhi Poetry Slam; ‘The Great Indian Anthology’ by Half Baked Beans and ‘She the Shakti’ by Authors Press. She is the Editor in her school and has authored three books titled, ‘A Treasure Trove of Poetic Wonderland’ ‘A Bountiful of Rhythmic Stories’ and ‘My Book of Short Stories and Poems’ and two research papers which were published in the International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research. She has won the Eye Level Literary Award 2018 by Daekyo, South Korea; the Create Change Challenge 2020 by the University of Queensland, Australia; the Millennial Essay Writing Contest by UNESCO and Takthe.

Janaki Nair is a rising senior (17 years old) at Solon High School in Ohio. She has loved literature, especially fantasy novels and poetry, since childhood. She has won 2nd place at the International Conference for FPS, received the National Council of Teachers of English Certificate of Superior Writing (one of 79 in the United States), and been published in various journals such as the Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review and JUST POETRY!!!, the National Poetry Quarterly. 

Jyotsna Nair is a 16-year-old currently living in India, as well as her own imagination. Her work has been published in Canvas Literary Journal, the anthology Writers on Earth: New Visions For Our Planet, and The Apprentice Writer. She is a firm believer in the power of banana bread, and has been known to consume copious amounts in alarmingly short intervals of time.

Kyla Nano is a 17-year-old writer from California who reads and hosts her podcast episodes on a daily basis. When she's not doing either, she writes, researches, or spends time with her family watching Netflix. As a literary transcendentalist, she loves to spread her profound art and academic findings to show that those in their lonesome are valid and relevant.

Isabella Setudeh Nejad is a 17-year-old student residing in California. She has a passion for creative art in all forms- whether that be writing or painting. Recently published in Potted Purple, she hopes she can get more of her work out there!

Jenna Nesky (she/her) is an autistic, Jewish, bisexual aspiring teen writer and poet. She attends Carver Center for Arts and Technology in the literary prime. From Maryland, she turns sixteen this year.

Darlene Neyou is a 17 year old girl from Ohio. She spends most of her time writing prose and poetry. When she's not doing that, she reads, watches movies or tv-shows, and spends time with her family, all of which generate ideas for her next piece.

KatieAnn Nguyen is an almost 15-year-old girl from the United States who wears dreams a size too big for her. The world is painful and she knows that, but that doesn't stop her from smiling. A little lost, a little hopeless, a little gone with the wind, she just happens to be another teenager surviving Life as best she can. 

Thanh-Tam Nguyen is a sophomore at High School for Gifted Students in Social Sciences and Humanities in Vietnam. Her works have been previously published in Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine and GENCONTROLZ. She gets a kick out of doing writing workshops, poetry slams and eating mỳ vằn thắn. You can find her on Instagram at @nguyen.ng505.

Tho Nguyen is a 10th-grader from Pleasanton, California. Her work has previously been published in the Bitter Fruit Review and Kalopsia Literary Magazine. She is also an editor for the Interstellar Review. Some things she enjoys are the scratch of a calligraphy nib, the icy sweetness of jasmine boba, and the first word in a once-blank Google Doc.​

Trần Quỳnh Nguyên is a 16-year-old writer hailing from Hanoi, Vietnam. Her work is featured or forthcoming in The Ice Lolly Review, MOIDA, Ample Remains. She is also a participant in this year's Sewanee Young Writers' Conference and likes peach milk tea more than anything.

Ananya Nigam is a 13-year-old student living in New Delhi, India. She loves reading and writing fiction and poetry. In her spare time, she also enjoys baking and spending time with her puppy.

Brooke Nind is a 17 year old high school senior from Southern California. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Intersections Magazine and a Senior Editor at Polyphony Lit. Her work has been recognized by the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the UK Poetry Society's Young Poets Network.

Ser Nin is a student and a poet from Asia. She is 15. She has been published in Ice Lolly Review and The Weight Journal, among other places.

Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai hails from Hong Kong and currently studies in Arkansas. She is Assistant Editor for and has been published in Footnotes, her school's award-winning literary magazine. She is Blog Director for SeaGlass Literary and writes for Intersections Magazine and ProjectSaid. Her work can also be found in Paper Crane Journal, Unbroken Journal, and Indigo Literary Journal, among others. 

Enyinna Nnabuihe an aspiring filmmaker, born in 2002 in Lagos, Nigeria, is a Pharmacy student at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University. He is signed to Whipik Stories as a chat story creative, and alongside pouring his heart into poetry on his Instagram page, @enyinnawrites, he has published multiple stories on the platform. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kalahari Review, Cathartic Lit Magazine, Paper Crane Literary Journal, The Master's Review and elsewhere.

Gracie Nordgren is an 18-year-old student from Denver, Colorado. She enjoys daydreaming and pomegranates. Her work has previously been published by the South Broadway Ghost Society.

Brendan Nurczyk is a 16-year-old high school Junior attending Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, FL as a part of their Creative Writing program. He has been published in his school's literary magazine Elan and featured in Lunch Ticket's biweekly youth spotlight. He is also an alum of Iowa Young Writers Studio and a poetry reader for the Farside Review. 

Samuel Nzebor is a fourth-year law student at the University of Benin. He is 21 years old, and resides in Nigiera; a poet whose works have appeared on Tuck Magazine, Mojave Heart Review, and Elsewhere. He envisions a world without pain.

Ollie O. is a young writer, who likes to read, draw and of course... write! They are currently writing their first novel. They live and write in Texas, USA.

Clara O'Bannon is a 17 year old student from Buffalo, New York who reads and writes during every spare moment she finds. She embraces personal stories through her work, and treats each piece as an emotional learning curve. Although she learns best through trial and error writing, she takes Creative Writing classes at school, and has attended a Creative Writing summer program to interact with other young writers and expand her palette. 

Connor O'Brien is 17 years old and lives in Issaquah, Washington. He has no prior writing experience he believes worth noting, but he's always enjoyed writing.

Lyne Odhiambo is a 17-year-old living in Lexington, Kentucky. Her poetry is featured in Potted Purple magazine and The Make it Safe Project's forthcoming anthology. Lyne writes to remember words that are too good to be forgotten.

Ari and Dri Ogir are 18-year-old twin sisters from Trinidad. They have had a profound love for reading and writing ever since childhood. Occasionally they enjoy taking the words from their heads and painting it on a canvas. They are two small girls in a big world with dreams in their hearts and stories in their minds, and artists' souls.

Marisa Oishi is a 14-year-old writer from Washington state. She is a ballet dancer and loves reading and crossword puzzles. She frequently publishes her work on Write the World.

Ikera Olandesca is an avid writer of poetry and flash fiction. In 2019, she self-published a book of poems entitled "Homesick." Ikera also enjoys performing her work, having presented at Stanford University, the 40th Manila International Book Fair, and the 2019 Global Authors' Summit. 

Adesiyan Oluwapelumi (he/him),TPC XI, is a 17 year old poet from Nigeria. He has works published/forthcoming in BRITTLE PAPER, Eunoia,Lumiere,Kahalari Review, Icefloe, Spillwords & elsewhere. Say hi to him on twitter @ademindpoems.

Anna Olteanu is a seventeen-year-old writer from New York. Her work has been honored by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and has appeared in Lit Space magazine. She's an editor for Polyphony Lit, and regularly contributes to her high school's publications. Apart from writing, Anna has an affinity for geology, and will never stop gushing about U-shaped valleys.

Julia Ongking is currently a sophomore in high school. Born and raised as a Chinese-Filipino, she enjoys developing her perspectives through reading, writing, and having meaningful conversations with people from all walks of life. Her work has been published in Rapper Magazine.

Nana Opare-Addo is a 13-year old girl from Bronx, NY. Since she was little, Nana has always been infatuated by a variety of poems & prose prompts. In school, she would constantly write different pieces and the joy she received from writing would help her combat different battles. She is currently a young writer at "WritetheWorld."

Connor O'Ryan is 19 years old, and lives Salem, Oregon (originally from Denver, CO). He an actor, and currently applying to many BFA Acting programs for next fall. He has occasionally written poetry and other pieces such as plays in the past, but this is his first real endeavor into thoroughly exploring his passion for writing independently. 

Ayesha Owais is a 16 year old writer and has been writing since as long as she can remember. She started writing on Instagram about last year and has improved a lot since then! She has her personal website (a blog) where she posts her articles and poetry, and she's also gotten published once or twice in a local magazine and along with that featured multiple times on different Instagram writing platforms.

Aadit Pahuja is a fifteen-year-old living in Delhi, India. His poetry has been accepted by not more than two literary magazines. His poetry is related to topics that drift away from the normal and explores topics like human trafficking, and religious beliefs. He spends most of his time thinking about writing, and when he starts writing, he ends up doing something else. Other hobbies include killing time on YouTube and eating.

Nikki P is a writer from the United States. She edits for a few magazines and has work published in The Hearth Magazine and Paper Crane Journal.

Eric Pak is 16 years old and from Virginia. He has not had any major writing experience, but he enjoys literature and writing in general.

Firyal Paladini is a fifteen year old writer from Texas. Since the age of six, when she first picked up Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, she’s been fascinated and in love with words. By the time she was thirteen, she had written two novels and placed third in the National JCL Creative Writing Contest. She hopes to one day become a published author with her own novel.

Leo Palta is a fourteen-year-old from the United States. Ae's a nonbinary trans boy and although ae hasn't been published yet, ae makes aer friends read way too much of aer poetry. 

Josh Pampam, a poet and a Hairstylist in his twenties from the beautiful city of Ota in Ogun State, western Nigeria. His writing passion can be traced back to 2012 when he listened to rap music and cram it to sing for friends and family. He has featured in magazines and some poetry chapbooks. If Josh is not writing, he's reading.

Srishti Pandey (she/her) is 15-years-old and hails from India; a sleep-deprived teenager, with big dreams. She is a STEM student, who finds solace in the literary world. Whenever she gets free time, you can find her decorating her poetry notebook. She has poetry present in the Ice Lolly Review, Intersections Mag, Propaganda Panda Mag and Love Letters Mag. You can find her on instagram: @its.me.srishti and twitter: @srishtipandey_ .

Adriana Parrino (she/her) is nearly 16 years old and has lived in Arizona her whole life. She’s been published several times, won or been a finalist of poetry and writing contests, and been featured in two local poetry podcasts. Writing has been a passion for Adriana since she could talk , and words are constantly shaping the lens through which she views the world. Her dream is to make meaningful change through writing an activism in her life.

Hailey Park lives in South Korea, but attends school in Florida. Hailey is 18 years old and loves to sing, play the cello, and tutor local middle school students in math and english. Her writing has previously been published as part of the Amazing Young Writer’s Challenge.
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Junwoo (William) Park is a Korean 13-year-old, 8th grader currently attending International School Manila in the Philippines. He enjoys writing poems about nature and unexplored topics. During his free time, he enjoys playing football with his friends and likes to read.

Leah Marie Park is a sophomore in high school from both Seoul and California (currently living in Seoul). Her work has been recognized with a Gold Medal by the Scholastics Art & Writing Awards. Aside from writing fiction and poetry, she likes to cook and bake.

Michelle Park is a 15 year old, high school freshman currently living in the Philippines. Many of her poems are about nature and her memories from her childhood. She loves to eat food, and during her free time, she likes to play soccer, dance, and listen to music. Her works have been published or are forthcoming in the Heritage Review, the Rising Phoenix Press, and One Art Poetry. 

Seungbihn Park is a 15-year-old Korean student who is currently attending Cresskill High School in the United States. She was born in Switzerland and lived in several countries, including the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. Her poems have been awarded by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and published by Trouvaille Review.

Seongmin (Tim) Park (Tim) Park is a 15 year-old student attending International School Manila. He enjoys midnight walks during winter. 
Olivia Paul (she/her) is a 13 year old poet, who lives in Tampa, Florida. She is a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and much of her work centers around her journeys through love in the eyes of a young person. Writing has always been an escape for her, where she could turn her deepest secrets into stories and be proud of them. Later in life, Olivia wants to pursue writing as a career, and hopefully make it as a journalist.

Skylar Peck is a sixteen-year-old high school student from Seoul, South Korea. She enjoys writing poems that help her make sense of real events and experiences. She has attended the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, and her work appears in The Daphne Review.

Shreya Pendurkar, 16, India.

Ariel Pennington-Reyes is a 15 year old junior at Maria Regina High School in New York. An avid reader and writer, 'Time Does Not Heal' is one of her current works and hopefully her first to be published.

Brooke Petito is a senior of Timberland Highschool in the graduating class of '21. She is 18 years old and from Wentzville, Missouri. She has been creating stories ever since she could put together words in her head and has a passion for imagination and bringing life to the ideas in her mind. 

Myesha Phukan is a 14-year old writer currently residing in the Bay Area. Her work appears in or is forthcoming in Stanford Anthology for Youth, Teen Ink Magazine, and Live It Up Magazine. She is also an editor at Footprints on Jupiter Literary Magazine. When she's not writing, you can find her adding to her already humongous book collection!

Charlotte Picker is a 16-year-old high school student studying in Brisbane, Australia. While she does not do any writing professionally, she has a deep love for creative writing, especially short stories, creative non-fiction and poetry. She is currently working to develop a portfolio of work to take her passion into a more professional setting. Her poem was written in response to a deep anger she felt towards the issue of gun violence in America. As an American-Australian she often finds herself angered by the same issues that plague many American students, while also dealing with an innate sense of helplessness and inability to fight for change, partly due to her location. She hopes this poem can change that. 

Megan Pitt is a 16 year old writer and avid reader from New Jersey. As editor-in-chief of her school's newspaper, she enjoys not only editing the work of others, but gaining inspiration from them. Writing is her passion and she hopes to pursue it in France in her future.

Anwesha Poddar is a 15 year old high school student living in India. Her personality is a subtle concoction of an old 90s poet who loves to sit by and watch the moon as she delves into the world of words and a five year old playful kid whose face lights up at the mere mention of candies. She absolutely despises society's fixed ways of working and ethics as well as the social disguised evils of the world.

Sam Podnar is seventeen and attends high school in Pittsburgh, PA. She has been writing for her school newspaper for three years. She has won a handful of Scholastic Gold Medals and the American Voices Award, and she has been published in Scholastic's Best Teen Writing. When she's not writing, she enjoys baking, reading, and worrying about things out of her control.

A rising junior from New Jersey, Alefiya Presswala writes because she sees and experiences so many different worlds and feelings, and she needs to share that with other people. She wants to let people know that they are never alone in their struggles. Her work is soon to be recognized in Teen Author Boot Camp's 2020 Anthology and other online magazines. Besides writing, Alefiya takes an interest in astrology, painting, and social activism.

K.Priyamallika is the pseudonym of an 18 year old Undergraduate student from India. She has no prior writing experience, but wishes to hone her skills while interacting with both budding and experienced writers worldwide.

Nina Pursai, age 17 at Notre Dame High School San Jose, CA, hopes to become an environmental scientist but never will abandon the written word. Already, she and two associates have a successful children’s book to their credit, inspiring youth to become Earth’s stewards. Her in depth study of poetry at a private institute has helped her grow as a writer with a number of awards and publications, even in adult literary journals. These include multiple organizations in eight states for her poetry and nationwide for her best-selling book, Sheldon, Your Shell. 

Heather Qin is a 15 year old high schooler from New Jersey. She is an alumnus of the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference and her work has been nationally recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and the New York Times. Besides writing, Heather loves reading, listening to classical music, and binge-watching anime.

Chelsea Quayle is a 17 year old female from Australia. While she has been an avid reader since she was young, she started writing creatively at 13 years old. Her younger teenage years and her mental health were a struggle for here, so when she thought no one else would listen she turned to writing. Through this outlet, even when no one was reading, she felt heard. Through her writing she has grown so much as a person and even though she still struggles, it has assisted in developing her into a person with a matured awareness of herself and of others. Through her writing, she tries to channel her emotions and strip them back to a very unadulterated and refined state. She hopes to convey to others who haven't yet found their voice that she hears them and that they are not alone.

Sarina Rabiee is a 14 year old from Southern California. She enjoys writing poetry, but prefers to spend her time writing short stories for her own enjoyment. In her free time she likes to do a variety of activities, but her favorite has to be listening to music and making playlists.

Rebekah Rahman is a 17-year-old currently residing in Washington. She's originally from South Carolina and has enjoyed the art of writing since she first learned to do so. She's currently a staff writer for the Issaquah High Times and usually focuses her journalistic pieces on issues regarding both race and equal representation. She has written screenplays for the IHS Film Club and supports local radio journalism in her community. For more of her creative writing pieces, find her works here: Black Coffee Writes.

Sadhika Raj is a 17-year-old writer and all-around creative person from India who is pursuing her education in New York. She has worked on many writing projects ranging from historical fiction to fantasy and is always looking for new and exciting aspects of creativity to pursue.

Michelle Ramaa is a 15-year old poet from New Jersey.
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Julia Dun Rappaport is a writer, poet, and artist. She was an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Longfellow Student Poetry Contest and the 2020 winner of her school-wide poetry slam. In addition, her designs and painting have won several school and town art contests. Julia is a rising ninth grader and lives outside of Boston with her family. 

Farzeen Rashid is 16 years old and she is from Canada. She started writing poetry when she was 15 years old, however, in quarantine, she’s been sharpening up her skills more than ever. She has written over 40 poems, topics ranging from her very personal experiences, to the flaws in our modern society.

Shanzey Rashid is 15 years old and from Karachi, Pakistan. She has had some experience writing political articles for a few online magazines.

Alexa Rasnick is a poet from New York. She is fourteen years old and a younger sister. She attends the ninth grade at Avenues The World School. When not at school, she volunteers at organizations like Days For Girls, City Harvest, and her school’s reducing waste club. She enjoys writing about issues like sexism, racism and climate change and current emotions. 

Katie Rebhan is 16 years old and from McLean, Virginia. Writing is her favorite pastime, as she believes it is a way for her to share her ideas and passions with others, and in particular, she enjoys writing short stories, essays, and plays, some of which have won writing contests. In addition to writing, Katie plays volleyball and golf and serves as a referee for her county volleyball league. She is also an editor of her school’s yearbook and newspaper, and in her free time, she loves to read and bake.

Drishti Reddy is a fifteen-year old student from India who has previously been published in Robin Age Magazine and is an editor for Polyphony Lit.

Rachel Reid is a 16-year-old from Blairsville, Georgia and is an upcoming junior in high school. She has written and been published at teenink.com and has received an Editor's Choice Award for her poem "I've Walked Without Purpose."

Maya Renaud-Levine is sixteen years old, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She has a passion for podcasts, politics, singing and playing piano, and will never turn down a good crime novel. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in The WEIGHT Journal, Idle Ink, Eunoia Review, The Blue Marble Review and TRUANT LIT, and is a national winner of the American High School Poets Just Poetry!!! National Poetry Quarterly.

Juheon (Julie) Rhee is a 15-year-old student and is currently attending International School Manila. During her free time, she enjoys reading Agatha Christie’s mysteries and hanging out with her friends. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in K’in Literary Journal, Indolent Books, 580 Split, Lunch Ticket, Cleaver Magazine among others, and has been recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs.

Soheon Rhee is a twelve-year-old student who is currently attending the International School of Manila. During her free time, she likes hanging out with her friends and reading books such as “How to Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. Her poems have been published in the Heritage Review, and are inspired by multicultural and multilingual backgrounds.  

Aatika Riaz is a 13-year-old writer from Islamabad, Pakistan. She frequently writes for Write the World. 

Olivia Robertson is a 13-year-old aspiring journalist and author. She lives in Scarsdale, New York, and she has been in more than a few writing workshops  over the last couple years. Her work has been published in one of the workshops' online magazines.
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Rowan is a 16 year old Indian from Australia, they don’t have much professional writing experience but have grown to love literature and poetry as a child. Often times as Rowan grew up, he began to use poetry as a way of coping with his mental health as well as a way to explore their own identity. Rowan draws a lot of inspiration from those around them, using their experiences to grasp exactly what they feel in the moment they write.

Aly Rusciano is a 22-year-old recent graduate of The University of Tennessee at Martin, where she majored in English while focusing in Creative Writing and minoring in Theatre. Aly can often be found at her family home in Tennessee reading outside or typing away at her computer. She has been writing ever since she could hold a pencil. Aly’s love of books and passion for writing continues to positively affect her life as she pursues a career in the publishing industry while simultaneously chasing her dream of being a published author.

Kellen Ruiz is 17 years old and from Southern California. He can remember writing his first poem in the fourth grade to deal with the loss of a pet and has been using poetry to process just about anything ever since. His biggest creative inspirations include William Carlos Willaims, Allen Ginsburg, and his best friend Del.

Delia Rune is a sophomore living in Austin, TX. She loves to read and write and is a contributor to her school's newspaper. She has received more than ten scholastic regional writing awards, including four gold keys, and recently placed third in Write the World's international book review competition. When she isn't writing, she can be found watching Gilmore Girls and bullet journaling.

Avery Russell is a female black 16 year old  who is an emerging writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She enjoys poetry, reading, and watching movies. She has recently become involved with organizing at her school to diversify the curriculum. She has been published in small magazines such as Oneul Zine and Casualzine. 

Samantha Russell lives in Rhode Island. She is seventeen years old and entering her senior year of high school, and she is constantly writing personal pieces for herself, those of which include poetry, personal memoirs, vignettes, and creative nonfiction. Her poem "Immunity" was selected for inclusion in Notable Works' Call for Poetry.

Bhavika Sachan (b. 2001) is an Indian poet and author of the book, "maps called souls are hard to trace." She is the recipient of the 2019 Ellipsis Best Writer's Award. She has won writing contests organized by WDC and TELS of Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her works are previously published or are forthcoming in VAim Magazine. Unicorn Magazine, the Graveyard Zine, the Pinnacle Palette Blog, Blue Quill's anthology, and also in a collection of short poems, 'ENIGMA Vol. 2', by Quill House Publication. You can find her on Instagram at @bhavika_19s.
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Kirti Sachan is a 22-year-old open-mic poet and Mirakee writer from India. She often recites her poems during emcees for her college fest. She loves writing satires about both the digital way of life and the stresses of city life. Her writing is inspired by her travels, through deserts to mountains to plateaus to rainforests; for her, nature breeds creativity. 

Eileen Sadati is a 15-year-old poet from Southern California who uses her writing to answer her life's most pressing questions. She talks about her identity as a first-generation American, confusions, and the realizations she's made with age. Eileen enjoys writing, history, social studies, and hopes to continue learning about these topics in the future.  

Sneha Sadhukhan is a 16 year old high school sophomore from Kolkata, India who writes as a hobby and dreams of being an established author some day. A permanent fixture on the Creative writing section of her school magazine, her other hobbies include obsessively reading(and rereading), baking, ardently debating social issues, overanalyzing every lyric in the entirety of Taylor Swift's ever-growing discography, and falling far too much in love with fictional characters. Her work is forthcoming in Ice Lolly Review and Cathartic Literary Magazine.

Roman Sage Tan is a 16 year-old student from Singapore. To him, writing is a cathartic experience that allows for the purgation of emotions and negativity. He enjoys writing poems in both English and his mother tongue, Chinese. In his free time, you can catch him binge-watching Grey's Anatomy and Glee, or reading John Green's novels.

Sahithi is a 15-year-old American-born Indian who moved back when she was young. She likes reading, contemporary Indian fiction in particular but not until recently did she find herself writing. Shes grateful for growing up in a household that embraces free thought and curiosity, it allowed her to explore other fields of passion like mixed martial arts, racial studies, and psychology.

Mahbubat Salahudeen is a writer, poet and spoken words artist who resides in South Western Nigeria. Her works have featured or forthcoming at several places including Spillwords magazine, Brittle Paper, Ice Flow press, Ninshar Arts and elsewhere. He friends call her Raven.
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Nada Salem is a 16-year-old high school student in Ontario, Canada. She uses writing to process her experiences and the world around her. Besides publications in anthologies and local  magazines, she has experience writing for various organizations as well as her school newspaper.

Elizabeth Sallow (she/her) is a queer eighteen year old who lives in a small village in the UK. She believes in the universal and connective power of literature and hopes that she can make people feel understood in a way that she did growing up with her head in a book. She also likes succulents. It's a problem.

Layla Salomon is a 20 year old college student from Houston, TX. She studies cognitive science and environmental studies at Johns Hopkins University, but she's been writing poetry for around 5 years as a way of maintaining her own sanity. Besides poetry, she writes music, satirical news articles, and the occasional short story. She loves singing, direct sunlight, and her wonderful friends. 

Sanchi is 16 years old and hails from Gharaunda, Haryana. She is a unicorn believer and selenophile, a procrastinator who finds solace in writing. She has published some of her work in anthologies and is beta reading for a client. 

Somtochukwu Sandra is a 21-year-old student from Nigeria. She writes her emotions on paper as she finds it difficult to express herself orally. 

Lauren Schena is a seventeen-year-old senior at Methuen (MA) High School and she will be an incoming freshman at High Point University in the fall. She enjoys running, playing guitar, and writing for her school newspaper. This year she’s written numerous articles that will soon be published in the 2022 edition of her school’s newspaper. She is passionate about writing and she plans to pursue a career in Journalism. 

Jules Schulman is a journalist and researcher. She writes about law, culture, and sports. 

​K. Scopes is a 15-year-old aspiring writer in California who procrastinates way too much. She loves writing fictional prose—specifically fantasy and sci-fi. When she isn't writing, Scopes enjoys drinking coffee, going on walks, reading, and obsessing over fictional characters. You can find her on Instagram! @kscopeswrites

Eleanor Scott is a 15 year old multi-media artist from Minnesota. She began writing a little over a year ago.

Julia Seebach is a 15-year-old from New Jersey. Her teachers have been encouraging her to share her work, but she's too shy to let people she knows read her work. She found Cathartic's page on Instagram and thought that a bunch of people she doesn't know might make her more comfortable to judgement!

Kimberly Seodarsan is 17 years old. She is from Ozone Park, New York. She has recently been noticed as a semi finalist in a separate poem contest, as well as working to compile a book of poems. 

MahRukh Shah, aged 19, is a poetess & writer. She finds peace in poetry & prose ; her form of catharsis. 

Saya Shamdasani is a freshman (19) at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She is passionate about the written word, social justice, and education policy. 

Cathy Shang is a Chinese 17 year old student studying in Shanghai, China in Shanghai American School Pudong Campus. She writes poetry as a form of self expression and in hope of capturing the intensely important emotions of the human experience. Her writing focuses primarily on fleeting dreams and sentiments from stories of her life so far, as well as the weight of silence as a form of communication. In her spare time, she likes to make digital art and animation, and compete in parliamentary debate.

Via Sheahin is a high school freshman from Illinois. She primarily writes poetry, prose, and fiction. She has been published in several literary magazines such as Teen Ink and has been an active community member of Write the World for years. She has founded a Writing Club for Kids called Young Expressions and is an active peer reviewer and editor. 

Afrah Shekh (19) hails from India, but has lived her whole life in the UAE. In her free time, she can be seen eating a tub of ice cream and watching documentaries on serial killers. She would describe her writing as a trainwreck, and what a wreck it truly is.

Kate Sheppard is a 16 year old living her best life in Phoenix, Arizona. Although she’s struggled with anxiety for years, she does her best every day, often finding comfort in literature and writing. The love and support of her friends and family have helped her become who she is today.

Caroline Shi is a 16-year-old from New York. She enjoys writing for fun and tries to do so as often as possible in her free time. 

Annie Shin is an 18-year-old girl from Pennsylvania. After graduating from a boarding high school in 2021, she is currently spending her gap year at her childhood home, with her mom, dad, and older brother.

Christine Shin is 16 years old and currently a sophomore. She is Korean American and originally from Virginia. 

Nina Sikandar is an 18 year old high school graduate from Malaysia. Her favourite stories in childhood were Puteri Gunung Ledang and White Fang. When she's not writing poetry, she self-studies design and humours nostalgia a little too much.

Kayleigh Sim is a Southeast Asian writer living in San Diego, California, and is currently a Senior Editor for Polyphony Lit. Kayleigh is a high school junior and will graduate in 2022. She is especially in love with flowers, the moon, and the stars. Her work has been published in Trouvaille Review and is forthcoming elsewhere. 

Tula Singer is a 16-year-old Cuban-American currently studying in Havana, Cuba at the Centro Educativo Español de La Habana. She has been published on reedsy.com and was a finalist in the Young Playwrights Competition in New York. She has also won four awards in secondary school for her writing. To her, inspiration comes from experience, which can be really inconvenient since she is still very young. Her stories are often a slice of her life and experiences—filled with jazz, friends, places, and chocolate.  She writes because she cannot let it go. 

Maansi Singh is a 13 year old individualist from India who is passionate about photography, art, playing guitar, singing, reading and writing. She is a published author, an awardee of the Asian Literary Society's young author award, Rex Karamveer Chakra award and a certified guitarist from the Trinity College of London. Maansi enjoys blogging at her personal blog, maansisinghcreations.wordpress.com 

Mihikaa Singh is an aspiring writer from India. She is thirteen years old,  and in the 9th grade. She is profoundly passionate about art, writing, piano, music, and reading. Moreover, Mihikaa is also a published author and a certified pianist from the Trinity College of London. She writes on the blog: Mihikaa Singh.

Sameeksha Singh is a 16-year-old writer from India. She writes for Write the World. 

Fathima Shafrina Sirajudeen is a 21-year-old professional poet from Sri Lanka. She has fallen in love with books for a long time, the magical words of fiction and descriptions of feelings which make her live. She has written for many magazines, and one of her books is soon to be published. 

Gangireddy Siva Pranavabharathi, Age 15, India

Anonymous is a fourteen year old from Virginia, US. She has taken no specific writing training, but has taken an Omnibus class and has  experience in scriptwriting as a school morning announcement producer. Annalise is an actress and dancer, and enjoys creative writing, reading, and sketching in her free time.

Minkyu Shim is a 14 years old from South Korea, and he is currently studying in International School Manila. Many of his writings are based on his culture and his identity. His work was published in "The Heritage Review" and "The Weight Journal." He is really passionate about music and he spends his time listening and studying music in his free time. He loves ITZY, Heize, and K-Pop.  

Phoebe Skok is a high school senior from Issaquah, Washington who spends most of her time daydreaming of pastries and far-away lands. A former blogging intern for CIEE during her foreign exchange in 2019, as well as a national collegiate Model United Nations position paper award winner in spring 2020 and author of an in-progress cookbook, she has always relied on writing to express herself. When she's not drafting personal essays or song lyrics, Phoebe enjoys testing new recipes and delivering them to her friends.
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Gladys Smith is a rising high school senior currently residing in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is sixteen years old and is an alumna of the Kelly Writers House Summer Workshop. If she cannot be found rereading Pride & Prejudice, she is most likely sleeping.

Daniel Son is 16 years old and a rising senior at Bergen County Academies. Daniel grew up and currently resides in Palisades Park. He wrote an Op-Ed that was published in The Record Newspaper and has been published in numerous magazines and competitions.

Dana Song is a junior at the Horace Mann School. In addition to her love of writing she has a strong interest in Human Evolutionary Biology, especially as it relates to culture, genetics, neurology and psychology. Her work has been published in The Horace Mann Review and Visible Magazine, and she has been awarded a National Gold Medal and a National Silver Medal from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. 

Grace Song is a tenth-grader attending Seoul International School in Seoul, South Korea. She is currently working on her writing portfolio for summer writing camp. Her other activities include eating with friends, listening to music, and watching horror movies.

Giya Sood is a writer from India. She is an editor for her school's editorial board and has a poetry blog of her own. Giya also has a newsletter of her own, Cacophony of Conversations, and has been published in the Trouvaille Review and elsewhere. Last year, she was awarded the Young Thinker Award for a national essay contest. She uses her writing as a creative outlet to express her emotions and to convey her views about ongoings around the world. 

Imaani Soto is a 15 year old, 10th grader currently attending high school in Queens, New York city. She is passionate about writing and uses writing as a means of expressing her innermost thoughts that can be hard to portray verbally. She has been writing ever since she's learned how, but has decided to pursue her writing passion in early 2021. She often writes about social issues speaking out against the injustices of the world, but also writes about teen issues. She is an avid spoken word poet, however has broadened her content to narratives and much more. 

Helena Souffrant is 17 years old and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. She enjoys writing in school and, in the past,  has participated in local writing competitions. She has also done writing jobs for small organizations.  

Andjela Starcevic is a 16 year old high-school student who loves cats and reading, horseback riding, and drinking way too much Diet Coke. She speaks Serbian and English, and she's very much ready to move out of North Carolina.

Isabel Su is a junior at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. She edits for her school's literary magazine, ink., as well as for her school newspaper. When she isn't writing, she enjoys dancing, making art, and listening to podcasts. 

Millie Su is  a 16-year-old from Issaquah, Washington. Although she has no "official" writing experience, she holds a deep passion for the written language and never regrets her time spent working on pieces. Writing has always been a source of comfort to her, allowing a momentary escape from this world. She is a strong believer in learning to love oneself through acceptance.

Shi Yang Su is an 16-year-old high school student from China. She is studying creative writing in school; she really enjoys reading poems and would like to share her peoms with the world. Currently, Su focuses more on writing peoms about culture conflict and religion belief. 

Zoe Su is from Taiwan. She’s 14 years old and goes to International European School. She has eight years experience of both piano and cello. In her free time, she enjoys scribbling down thoughts in her diary and bullet journaling. You can find her either listening to kpop music or watching Korean drama almost everyday. She likes the color periwinkle, which represents serenity and calmness. She also loves to indulge herself in designing and painting.

Maya Sultan has taken a dip into the somber notes of music and dark questions in literature. Building her dreams brick by brick. All soul, All depth.

Ember Summer is a current senior at Ida B Wells High School in Portland, Oregon. She has loved writing ever since she was seven, and her work has been included in two anthologies. She plans to attend The Evergreen State College in Washington, where she will either study creative writing or agriculture.

Saanvi Sundaram is known for many things, music, babbling, even her introverted personality, but on top of it all, she is a writer. A fourteen year old living in India, she loves writing poetry and short stories that allow her to bring her ideas to life. She is the editor-in-chief for her school newspaper, and runs a small blog. Other than writing, she is also an avid musician and trains in various instruments such as the violin and piano.

Anoushka Swaminathan (any pronouns) is a queer Indian-American 7th grader from Northern California. They love reading all genres, but primarily write realistic fiction and sci-fi, as well as poetry. They have previously been published in Ice Lolly Review,  Chasing Shadows Mag, YAWP Journal, and the Global Youth Review. When not reading or writing- so barely ever- xe dances Bharatanatyam, yearns endlessly, and does debate. 

Mariya Tacheva is a Bulgarian-American high school arts student studying graphic design and creative writing. She is 16 years old and wishes she had more time to write. Cathartic Lit is her first submission to a magazine and she hopes for many more to follow. She enjoys writing about her hometown in Bulgaria and making earrings out of seashells and clothespins.

Hilary Tam is a 14-year-old high school student from Hong Kong. Her work is published or forthcoming in Fahmidan journal, Cathartic Lit magazine, the graveyard zine and more. In her free time she can be found listening to music, poring over literary magazines or taking long walks.

Alex Tang was born on March 10, 2004 in Nanjing, China. She is currently attending highschool at Western Reserve Academy, Ohio.

Angelina Tang is a fifteen-year-old high school sophomore from New York. She is an active contributor and editor for her school newspaper and literary digest respectively. In addition, she is currently working to publish the novel she wrote.

Hazel Thekkekara is a high school junior from Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has been published in Polyphony Lit Magazine and Kalopsia Literary Magazine, among others. When she’s not writing, Hazel can be found rewatching David Suchet’s Poirot, baking triple-chocolate brownies, or taking her dog on long walks around the neighborhood.

​Jaiden Thompson is a 15-year-old writer from Washington state, looking for their soul through writing verse and prose on occasion. As a raging member of the LGBT community, their poems more than often venture into queer themes and concepts. Other motifs within their writing include religion/mythology, racism, and the struggles of adolescence. Their writing will later be published through the Young Writer's Initiative this July. 

Katie B. Tian is a 15-year-old writer from New York. She is a Scholastic National Medalist, and her work has been published in Blue Marble Review, The Incandescent Review, and elsewhere. She loves clever metaphors, oatmeal raisin cookies, and sharing her work with the world. 

Sanya Tinaikar is a 15-year-old emerging writer and student from Pennsylvania. She thoroughly enjoys reading and spends her spare moments with a book in hand. She is honored to have her work featured in Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine. 

Amiyuh Tobias is a 17 year old senior from Louisiana. I go to NOCCA (an arts school) where I study creative writing. I've studied journalism, formal poetry, romanticism, etc and write both prose and poetry. I won a gold medal in the 2021-22 Scholastic Awards for my personal essay/memoir titled Committed. This is a simultaneous submission.

Victoria Torres is sixteen years old and is a high school junior from South Florida. She enjoys her high school Creative Writing class and loves to explore different writing genres. Her favorite genre, however, is Ekphrastic Poems as there are many ways to interpret artwork.  

Cindy Tran is a sixteen-year-old writer from Boston, Massachusetts. She is a staff writer for Unpublished Magazine and Reclamation Magazine, and has published her work in a variety of other publications, including Overachiever Magazine, Ogma Magazine, and Boston Teens In Print. When she's not writing, Cindy is playing Animal Crossing into the ungodly hours of the night, reading until dawn, and breaking the strings of her violin. She hopes to be an author in the future.

Kitty Tran is a 16 year old student studying in Hanoi, Vietnam. She's had strong love for fiction, especially fantasy, since elementary school. Kitty doesn't have any professional writing experience but views writing as a comfort hobby. 

Trinh Tran is sixteen years old. She attends Milpitas High School in Milpitas, California. She has been passionate about creative writing from a young age and enjoys experimenting with different types of writing.

Andrew Tsang is currently a junior at Milton Academy in Massachusetts. Andy lived in Hong Kong and Taipei before moving to Massachusetts. Andy is also a writer for his school’s Piece of Mind magazine that talks about mental health awareness and psychology. Andy loves to write and listen to classical music when Andy has leisure time.

Jessica Tsang is a 16-year-old based in Hong Kong. At the age of five, she found that drawing stories was better than simply drawing, then found that writing stories was better than drawing them. When she is not writing or contemplating the meaning of life, you can find her studying, playing music, or drowning herself in copious amounts of green tea.

Lauwrensia Tuder is a 16-year-old from London, United Kingdom. She has some writing experience through participation in her school's newspaper club.

Tara Tulshyan is a sophomore currently living in Manila. Her works have appeared on DIALOGIST, The Ilanot Review, and The Louisville Review, among several others. She is currently working on a collection of poems.

Olivia Turk is a 17 year old author from Hudson, Ohio. As a four-year senior at Western Reserve Academy, Olivia has had lots of experience writing throughout her educational career. She enjoys writing fiction stories and unique poetry!

Anoushka Turner is 14 years old. She is from a town in South-East England and has only ever previously written for schoolwork or for fun. She is previously unpublished. Usually she writes short stories or creative descriptions.

Rafael is a 16-year-old student from Australia. He runs a writing blog on Write the World and can consistently be found dashing for a pen the moment he gets a good idea for his next poem. He is a full-time science nerd and dabbles (often painfully) in short story.

Shaan Udani is a rising sophomore at Seton Hall Preparatory School in New Jersey. He is from Morris Plains, NJ. Shaan has been published before in other literary magazines and journals, including the Johns Hopkins journal for talented youth. Through his writings, he has developed a passion for poetry, fiction, and even non-fiction works.

Noel Ullom is a 17 year old writer living in Cleveland, Ohio. She is an alum of the Kenyon Review Young Writers workshop and works as a Literary Apprentice at the BreakBread Magazine. She is also an editor of her school's magazine Retrospect, and has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Sakshi Umrotkar is a 17-year-old writer from Fremont, California. Her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers and the New York Times Learning Network. She enjoys exploring character studies through creative writing. 

Ramya Valipe is a 17-year-old from Houston, Texas. She uses poetry to express the ideas and dreams that she holds in her heart. 

Kasper Van Es (he / they) is a 16 year old Ukrainian immigrant in Colorado, USA. He immigrated when they were 10 years old and has been writing his entire life. They mainly write poetry, but he also writes fantasy or science fiction.

Eliza Vanghele is a 19 years old young adult from Bucharest, Romania who tries to navigate and understand the world around her and her own self by writing . Beyond poetry and prose , she is interested in fine arts , cooking and becoming an immortal god through all her work .  

Neha Varadharajan is a high school writer based in Pune, India. Her short prose and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The WEIGHT Journal, Dreich Poetry Journal, and Page and Spine. Her short prose, 'Happy Ending', was a shortlisted story for the grand prize at the Sweek International Microfiction Contest in February 2019. She also likes to code, bake and make music.

Natalie Volanto is a high school senior from Texas who currently spends her days writing, drawing, and playing tennis. Previously, her works “Dreamers”, “Flame”, and “My Room” have been published in Esse Literary Magazine. She plans to continue her love of creating poetry in college.

Ronnie Volman is a 15 year old writer from California. She serves as a staff writer and associate editor for The Incandescent Review, and has previously participated in Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth’s writing programs. In her free time, she loves to read, practice piano and enjoy fresh air at the beach.

Julia Vu is a 16-year old student from the Bay Area. Having struggled with mental illness, Julia is a passionate mental health advocate and founded an international advocacy organization called Operation Dopamine in 2020. She documents her cycles with decline, relapse, and recovery through her poetry. Julia hopes to empower others and embrace the beauty of her own mental illness by sharing the letters she never intended to send. Julia has a fascination for the medical sciences and is currently conducting individual research on dacarbazine (DTIC) chemotherapy drug resistance in melanoma.

Sunny Vuong is a 15-year-old Asian-American poet who strings her heart together between stanzas of poems and chapters of prose. She’s often writing about her experiences as a young girl of color, the trials of being a member of several minority groups, or otherwise age typical teenager bouts of dreams and fantasies. Some things she adores include the Oxford comma, irony, and missed opportunities.

Evan Wang is a 14 year old poet from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, who has been featured by Teen Ink, Youth Be Heard, Untwine Me, and Bleeding Soul Poetry, to name a few. His poetry has earned him notoriety in his school district and he’s ever so focused on upending his past achievements with new and better ones. You can often catch him staying up late to write poetry in the A.M. He’s currently working on taking his poetry to new heights in the face of high school. You can find his Instagram @sincerelyevan_

Felicity Wang is a 12-year-old avid reader and writer from Seattle, Washington. 

Jessica Wang is a 16-year-old from Long Island with a passion for writing. She is the editor of the teen literary magazine called icelollyreview.com and can be found daydreaming and blending acai bowls. 

Keyi Wang, a fourteen year old girl in China, loves smelling books. She has been writing since she could remember, and her poetry has been published on online literary magazines. She loves how chaotic her life is & she feels alive.

Margaret Wang is a 14-year-old student from Arizona. If it's not 100 degrees out, she can often be seen contemplating the universe and engaging in similarly productive activities from her backyard. Her work can be found on Prose.

Olivia Wang, age 17, is from Issaquah, Washington and will be studying at the University of Washington in the fall. She is an avid musician who enjoys performing around the community and volunteering at local events. Although Olivia has not had any formal training in writing, she enjoys writing about mental illnesses as well as LGBTQ+ awareness and acceptance.

Olivia Wang is a 15-year-old high school sophomore living in Massachusetts. In addition to writing poetry, she also creates visual art, and focuses on exploring themes of identity, expression, and connection in her work. She has not previously been published.

Sage Wang is a 13-year-old from Sugar Land, Texas. Since she was 6, she's loved writing her own poems and short stories, which are such a personal form of self-expression to her. In her free time, she enjoys playing the cello and trying to beat her brother at ping-pong. 

Channeling her regrets into poetry, Yun-Fei Wang, 16, is your average sad high school student from the country of Taiwan. To her, words are colorless sunsets and the first light of dawn. She's not so sure what it means either, but she intends to find out with the rest of her life. Look for her in the coldest midnights, or @immortalrainpoetry on Instagram.

Pravartika Wankhede is a 16-year-old writer from Prayagraj, India. She has written previously for local newspapers, online platforms such as Write the World and Prose. As an International Fellow of Write the World's Civics in Action programme with the National Children's Campaign and Facing History and Ourselves, she also focuses on journalistic, socio-political writing.

Hudson Warm is a sophomore (15) at Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York. In December of 2020, she published her young adult fantasy novel, Not the Heir. Her poetry and flash fiction have been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and have appeared in the Vision and the Weight Journal. She's also a singer-songwriter, with songs available on most musical platforms.

Tamara Wattenbarger (18) is a transplanted Texan currently fighting her way through her first year of university at the University of Toronto. Previous writing experience includes various high school newspaper articles, a smattering of poetry, and a few mediocre research essays.  As always, she writes for her family, her friends and most importantly her cats.

Emily Way is a 15-year-old writer. She comes from a small town in Ontario, Canada, and her writing experience is limited to work at school as well as occasional short story or poetry writing for personal entertainment. 

Mehr Walia is a twenty-year-old from Punjab, India. She is currently pursuing dentistry. Her friends worry how fazed she looks while reading the news; she worries about them being unfazed in return. You will find her making spaghetti & conversations at the most ungodly hours.  

MacCoy Weil is an 18 year old student at The Hotchkiss School, which is located in Lakeville, Connecticut. He lives in London, England, where he finds literary inspiration from local museums, art galleries, and jazz clubs. This is the first piece that he has ever attempted to publish. 

Jessica Weinfeld is a sixteen-year-old junior at Newton South High School in Newton, MA. She is the president of the school's Creative Writing Club and loves writing fiction and poetry. When Jessica is not reading or writing, she enjoys playing the violin and the French horn.

Zoey Wen is a 16-year-old high school student in the Bergen County Academies. Zoey enjoys writing science fiction short stories because of the creative freedom she has in constructing a completely new universe out of her own imagination. In 2020, Zoey won 3rd place in a Future Problem Solving Scenario Writing competition about the future of gamification. In her free time, she likes watching movies and reading books. Zoey lives in New Jersey with her family, her rabbit, Stormy, and her snake, Peanut.

Imani-Unheri Whyte is a seventeen-year-old Jamaican American writer currently based in Pennsylvania. She has been writing for pleasure for about a decade. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s normally watching cartoons or trashy reality television shows.

Eleanor Willner-Fraser is a 22-year-old Canadian writer and recent graduate in history, creative writing, and Spanish. She has been writing short stories since she was little and has, more recently, branched out into nonfiction. She has had short stories, articles, and blog posts published online and in writing anthologies, her university’s literary publication, and community newspapers. She enjoys using writing to make sense of the world.

Falon Willow is a 19-year-old writer from New Hampshire. She's obsessed with girlhood and analyzing everything around her. She was the co-Teen Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 2019-2020. Her work has been featured in several online journals and she self-published her first poetry collection Sweet Dreams & Violent Ends in 2021.

Vivian Wiemelt is a 15-year old author who lives in Pennsylvania and has been writing stories since first grade. She is particularly interested in writing about the effects of trauma and psychological disorders. She won first place in the "PHB" Homeschool Writing Contest and has had her poetry featured on Teen Ink.

A. Wong is a 14-year-old student poet located in the West Coast of the United States. She enjoys telling stories through poetry, as she is too lazy to write novels. You can find her work on Write the World and Prose.

Kailey Wong is a 16-year-old student from the San Francisco Bay Area. She likes to do creative writing occasionally and loves to read. During her free time, she can be found playing piano, listening to Broadway, or watching sci-fi shows.

Keon Wong is a 17-year-old from Hong Kong. He is currently taking his A Levels and has a knack for all things photography and writing. He also has an obsession with good food.
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Rachelle Wong is a 14-year-old writer from California, and she's in love with the notion of creating art with words. She has previously been published in Ice Lolly Review. In her free time, she can be found reading a historical fiction novel, practicing classical and jazz piano, or playing with her dog. 

Asher Wood is a 16-year-old writer who is based in Oxfordshire, England. Writing has taken over her spare time, though it’s currently just a hobby. She is an eccentric for houseplants - currently at 25 - and has successfully covered her bedroom in leaves. She's a huge advocate for bringing exposure to mental health and hopes to show that through her writing. 

The author, who is going by the pen name Dia Wright, is eighteen years old and lives in Somonauk, IL. She has been published numerous times in Teen Ink Magazine, as well as in Pen Point Compass, and The Weight Journal. She describes her creative style as rambling, independent, and fiercely creative.

Jacqueline Wu is a 16-year-old writer from Long Island, New York. She is a writer and editor for her acclaimed school magazine, Cinnabar. She has also won several writing competitions and awards, such as the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Jacqueline enjoys painting, drawing, writing, and playing the viola, and she hopes to continue to inspire and empower through her words.

Yixuan Wu is a 17-year-old Chinese national who currently lives in the Philippines. His works have appeared on The Rising Phoenix Review and One Art Poetry. He hopes to spread awareness of Chinese heritage and culture through his poems.

Allison Xu is a 14-year-old high school student from Maryland. She has been recognized by the Scholastic Arts & Writing awards, Blue Fire Creative Writing Contest, and Kay Snow Writing Contest. Her work has been published in Germ Magazine, Secret Attic, 50-Word Stories, Bourgeon Magazine, The Weight Journal, and several anthologies. ​

Brooke Xu is a 17-year-old junior from North Carolina. She has recently rediscovered her love for writing over the pandemic. Her writing has received a silver key and honorable mention from the regional Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards, but if selected, this would be her first publication. 

Jenna Ronnie Xue is a 15-year-old writer/poet from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Creative writing is one of her biggest passions, and she aspires to become a professional writer after high school/college. She is currently working on three fantasy novels and has been since 5th grade, and she hopes they will become published one day. Besides writing, her other interests include photography, theatrical arts, singing, playing the viola, playing the flute, and drawing!

Christine Xu, age 15, studies poetry privately with an award-winning poet in Silicon Valley. Each poem increases her fascination with this art. Thus far, adult literary journals such as The Avocet in Arizona; WestWard Quarterly in Illinois; and Lone Star in Texas have published her poems; The Pangolin Review in the Republic of Maritius made her an international poet last fall when they published Christine’s “Pearl of the Adriatic.” She has also won awards from national contests including California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc., the oldest poetry group in the Golden State, and two First Prizes in the noted Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition.

Madison Xu is a high school junior at the Horace Mann School in New York City.

Gracie Yaconelli is a seventeen-year-old high school junior living in the foothills of the Cascade and Siskiyou mountain ranges in Ashland, Oregon. She is a musician, songwriter, avid trail runner, and parent of three elderly Abyssinian guinea pigs. As founder and president of the Ashland High School Writers and Poets club she leads weekly workshops for aspiring young writers. 

Ziyi Yan is fourteen years old, from Greenwich Connecticut. She has been passionate about writing since she was very young. In her free time, she enjoys drawing, singing, and rereading her favorite Nabokov novels. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. 

Inseo Yang is a 17 years old poet from Redding, Connecticut. Her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and can be found in Synchronized Choas Journal and elsewhere. She serves as a poetry and creative non-fiction editor for Parallax Online. In her free time, she enjoys analyzing films and debating with her dad on current topics for hours without getting anywhere near a resolution.

Lacole Yang (they/vae/he) is a 15-year-old writer based in California. Previously, their work has been published in The Youth Voice Magazine. They enjoy writing fantasy short stories and flash fiction that explore societal issues. During their free time, they think about the moon and colors.

Olivia Yang is a rising junior from Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a 2020 American Voices Nominee for the Northeastern region and has been nationally recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing awards. Her work has also been recognized by Nimrod International, The Courant, the Carl Sandburg Poetry Contest, and more. She is an editor for The Courant, Galliard International and is on the board of her school’s Asian Society and Writer’s Alliance. In her free time, she likes to scout out discreet boba shops and watch summer sunsets. 

Erin Ye is a 16-year-old writer from Long Island. An editor for Interstellar Literary Review, her work is also forthcoming in Gossamer Lit. Erin draws inspiration from her life experiences, Greek mythology, and the sky. She loves smoothies and being outside. You can find more of her work at www.erinwritesessays.weebly.com.

Peggy Yin is an 18-year old from Port Jefferson, New York. She is the editor-in-chief of her school’s literary magazine and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Current (pjcurrent.com), an independent newsmedia platform for student voices. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. An aspiring cognitive neuroscientist, she also loves science and is an award-winning flutist and vocalist. 

April Yu has a special fondness for the spring season, given her name. At age thirteen, she has been an avid writer for four years. When April isn't channeling her thoughts onto paper, she loves to read, run, and daydream. She lives in New Jersey, USA with her mother, father, and two siblings.

Haemin Yun is an eighth grader currently studying at International School Manila. She lives in the Philippines but is Korean. She enjoys writing which takes her imagination and thinking to another world. Her work was previously published in The Heritage Review. 

Olivia Yun is 17 and from Boston, Massachusetts. She does creative writing in her free time and has had pieces published in several literary magazines. She hopes to spread awareness about issues among her generation such as mental health and climate change through writing, art, and fashion.

Marie Zelaya is a 17-year old multiracial writer. Her work can be found in Blue Marble Review and Hypernova Lit, among others. She is originally from Michigan, but currently resides in the Hudson Valley. 

Andy Zhang is a 17-year-old senior who attends Berkeley High School in California. He has written numerous pieces for TeenInk and has been published in TeenInk magazine. Andy likes tennis, writing, playing video games and is ready to reenter communal spaces with his friends and peers.

Hannah Zhang is a 16 year-old aspiring writer from Tucson, Arizona. She has been writing since a young age and sees it as an outlet to express herself. She hopes that her writing can draw the attention of young readers to the power of words that impact our mental health. Hannah's work has been recognized at Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition and published at Girls Right The World, The Weight Journal, Journal of Undiscovered Poet (forthcoming), and TeenWritersProject Quarterly Lit Zine magazine (forthcoming).

Jacy Zhang, 22, studies English at the University of Maryland. Her photography has been published in Riggwelter, The Lumiere Review, Floresta Magazine, and elsewhere. She loves sharing people's creative writing and art on Twitter @JacyLZhang.

Kailani Zhang is a 15-year-old living in Illinois, in the U.S. She loves writing in any shape or form, and particularly poetry as a personal interest which settled in over this summer. On a poetry grind, she’s posted many poems on her account on a writing platform, Write the World, and also earned a position as the assistant poetry editor on a literary magazine, the Things Unsaid. Some hobbies she has other than writing includes practicing Pixar themes on her piano, baking with her family and friends, watching classical movies like Ratatouille, and making very bad puns.

Sarah Zhang is a Chinese-American rising sophomore living in the Philippines. Surrounded by a community filled with diversity, Sarah aims to share the vivid aspects of her cultures through her poetry. Her works have been accepted in Eunoia Literary Journal, the Daphne Review, K'in Literary Journal, the Heritage Review, and have been honored by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In her free time, she plays tennis with her sister, and likes New York style pizza.

Rhyme Zhou is a 17-year-old from Hangzhou, China. She is an editor at Polyphony Lit and has been writing creative nonfiction in both Chinese and English since she was 12. She's been previously published in "Teen Ink" and her high school's literary magazine. Her favorite authors are Elif Shafak and Yashar Kemal. When she isn't sat at her desk writing or editing proses, Rhyme is out coaching badminton, perfecting her Turkish, tasting all kinds of coffee, revisiting Gabriel Iglesias's iconic jokes, or experimenting her own stand-up comedy. 

Sophia Zhang is a 15-year-old residing in Chicago, Illinois. She has been stringing words together in her head since her inception and is very happy to channel them into readable packets of intrigue for other people to read. Besides writing, Sophia spends her time playing piano, volleyball, or her favorite song on repeat.

Vivian Zhou is a 16-year-old from Shanghai, China. She currently attends Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio. She doesn’t have much prior writing experience but is taking an introductory creative writing class at her school. She is really interested in social justice and mental health, and she is dedicated to helping those near and far.

Julie Zhu is a sophomore young writer from Dublin, Ohio who is also a published journalist and editor for The ChinaPress, producer/host of The Issue Of Self podcast, contemporary dancer, and flutist. She has attended the Kenyon Young Writer’s Studio, Iowa Young Writer’s studio, and her work is published in The Blue Marble Review and The WEIGHT Journal. Julie is passionate about various social justice issues, strives to find her authentic voice, and is heavily intrigued by the human psyche. Homesick for the city, Julie plans to move to New York as soon as she can and pick up combat kickboxing and become fluent in French. 

Lauren Zhu is a 17 year old poet from Albany, New York. She has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and National Council of Teachers of English; her poetry is forthcoming in Eunoia Review. She reads for Polyphony Lit as an Executive Editor. 

Shira Zur is a rising senior in high school and lives in Seattle, Washington. She has loved to read and write ever since she can remember and hopes to pursue doing what she loves in the future. Her work has been published in The WEIGHT Journal and Truant Lit.