YARN has the EXCLUSIVE on this story by “Girl Parts” author, John Cusick! Merry merry!
How can you resist a story that begins:
Sam. I’m breaking up with you. We’re through.
- Rei
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Glee: A study in Integration
Oh, how many blogs could I begin with the line ”So I was watching Glee last night and thinking….” I have spared you many of those blogs, but this one kept niggling me, so here we are: So I was watching Glee the other night, boogeying on the couch to their spunky rendition of Katy [...]
Essays
In case you missed our Family Gatherings Contest with Figment
In case you missed our contest, below are the original details. Thank you to everyone who participated! Thank you to Susan Beth Pfeffer for helping us judge!!
Teach
Lesson Plan for Family Gatherings Contest–Or any Creative Non-Fiction Unit
Dear Teachers,
The prompt for the Figment-YARN Family Gatherings Essay Contest is “Write a nonfiction essay in 2000 words or fewer about a memorable family gathering. It could be a holiday, a wedding, a party, but it MUST include a teen or young adult.” [...]
Blog
To Submit or Not to Submit? This Should Not Be A Question.
Recently, I decided to submit a poem I wrote to a start-up literary magazine by the name of Little Room. It was created by Ohio University Creative Writing student Nathan Boley as one of his senior projects. The idea started as a simple Tumblr page [...]
Fiction
Soda
By Maggy Liu
The sun reared its blinding head early this year, making the students squint and seek shade under the faded umbrellas of the plastic lunch tables. Chemistry worksheets, pencils and pens, erasers and rulers lay scattered while they swear and graph lab results.
A band kid screams, disturbing the peace [...]
Blog
Rock Stars are People, Too
So there I was at the National Book Awards this week….. Since we won that awesome Innovations in Reading Prize, the kind folks at the Ford Foundation thought a rep from YARN should get to come to the National Book Awards Week festivities as part of the prize, but also for the kind of excellent [...]
Poetry
Boom, Water Breeze, Theme Park
By Joel Walton
Boom
From separate blankets
we watch weeping willows
burst and bloom in the air.
July explosions:
sky fire
easing the darkness
three seconds at a time. [...]
News
Meet our Interns
YARN is thrilled to announce our interns for the 2011-2012, year! Thanks to everyone who applied. We received many more applications than we expected, and it was great to get to know some of our readers in this unique way, and we hope that everyone who applied will continue to support YARN in their local [...]
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All the Young “Adults” Are Illustrated
For me, the highest praise for any notion is when it forces you to come back, analyze it, break it apart, and put it all back together again and again. The question and my previous blog “Where Are All the Young ‘Adults?’” is this kind of idea. I thought I would be completely off about [...]
Poetry
Winner of the Candy-Cookie Poem Contest
Happy Halloween!! Annie Donwerth Chikamatsu won our Second Annual Candy-Cookie Poem Drive & Contest! She will be receiving a copy of Shel Silverstein’s latest posthumous book of poetry, “Everything On It”! Hard candy might last longer But taffy gives me more to do– the back and forth of pull and chew. Thanks to all of [...]
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