Author: tfleischmann

My Goddamn Pink House by Kaya Dierks I live smack-dab in the middle of Nowhere, Ohio: twelve square miles of bobbing rooftops and soggy fold-up lawn chairs wrapped in sticky ribbons of interstate. My town’s like a city stretched and pulled into distortion — houses and trailers dotted across an endless highway. It’s a place…

of honey and spice by Arushi Avachat This is what I know of India: 1. Summers spent on dirty rooftops. My cousins and I go up here every afternoon of our visit. The streets of Jaipur glitter below us, and there is dusty air and peeling paint and laughter. 2. Baba’s singing. His music fills…

Instructions for Suburban Boy Love By Aidan Forster Wax. Never use Nair. Pull blackheads from your pores with a metal extractor. Ask the nice lady at Great Clips to give you a hard part, a deep white line of skin. Find men suspicious with too much or too little hair. Don’t get a tattoo for…

Talk to me by Ingrid Ren ___ Everything makes my mother suffer. ___ I stand on a street at nighttime begging her not to leave. She opens her car door. I don’t know if I would miss her but someone needs to. My father is alone is his room; my brother alone in his. Why…

sunlight through the honey jar by Savannah Bradley we argue over the pronunciation of caramel for an hour in the car. i say it the long way, the “wrong way,” according to him. look it up. if he’s right, i’ll buy him a glass-coated cream cola- glutinous and teeth-ruining, the flavor that tastes like me.…

We’re thrilled to announce the top three winners of this year’s Young Authors Writing Competition! Our judges selected the following winners from the hundreds of submissions we receive. This year brought us an especially talented group of writers, and we’re excited for the chance to honor some of our favorites. If you didn’t make the…

We’re so excited to share the ten finalists in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for this year’s Young Authors Writing Competition! Our judges had a real challenge in selecting ten writers for recognition among the hundreds of quality submissions we received from all over the world. We appreciate the chance to read the work of everyone…

We’re in the final days of selecting this year’s Young Authors winners! Thanks again toeveryone who submitted– as always, we’re amazed by the quality of writing and the unique voices we get to celebrate. Looking forward to sharing our finalists and winners with you all! Happy writing!

Submissions for this year’s Young Authors Writing Competition have closed. Thanks to all the talented writers who have sent stories, essays, and poems our way. Our judges will spend the next couple months reading submissions, and will contact writers in April with our results. Come back to this space to read some of the winning…

Submissions are open! Check out the submissions guidelines for more information. Happy writing!