Identity

Curriculum· — Interview a grandparent or older friend about a memorable moment from their childhood. Then, turn that memory into a first-person story, written from their point of view. Submit your entries here.

Memoir· — All names in this story have been changed for privacy. A few years ago my mom and dad, my two older brothers, and I moved from a refugee camp in...

Poems· — It needs courage to build a school! It needs courage to touch children’s hearts! It needs courage to welcome homelessness! It needs courage to stand with us in one line!...

Stories·Emma Hoff — CRACKED The ceiling hates me because it is cracked and imperfectand unloved and unfixed and nobody pays attention to it anyways, because they don’t care,well, I care, but that doesn’t...

Stories·Lina Kim — Noelle was wondering. Noelle always wondered, whether she was at school, or at home, or anywhere. She daydreamed all day. She wondered what they were doing. Were they walking home...

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 22, plus some of the output published below The Challenge: Simply,...

Editorial· — I sat in the taxi staring at the screen, as I usually did, watching a scene showing several Chinese people wearing masks. The taxi TV blared, “the Coronavirus rages through...

Stories·Emma Hoff — Cloud Jumping Every time I try to jump up to touch the black clouds,what bothers me most is that you can’t even enjoy falling back to the ground, because it’sa...

Stories·Sena Pollock — It was a sunny day and the birds were all singing. I imagined that I could understand them. “You did it-you did it-you did it you’ll never get-a-way.” it was...

Stories·Ed Gajcowski — I talked, but I could hear my words filing into her ear and out of another like a string of music notes. She held her violin at playing position, but...