15-16

Dear Little Ladybug

Amelia Levenson, age 15

Tender

Wesley Chessa-Forman, age 15

My Deep, Dark Secret

Leni Negrin, age 15

Thank You, 1844!

Le'har Mishra, age 15

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Excused

Alexander Kempe, age 14

My Bright Blue Dreams

River Bartosik-Murray, age 15

Flesh

Eleni M. Klissas, age 15

Cold

by Ty Young, age 16

Hunt and Gather

by Lily O'Donnell, age 15

Bad American Food

by Yotam Dinour, age 15

The Bower

by Annabel G

A Teacher’s Aid

by Jackie S, age 16

He Doesn’t Even Have a Name

by Todd Benowitz, age 15

The Warehouse (Excerpt)

by Maya Shah McDaniel

Mercy

by Lara Dominguez

The End of a World

by Iliana Seltzer Escandon

Train Ticket

by Maya C.

The Cooling Rack (Excerpt)

by Lucy R.

The Haunted House

by Max B., age 16

Ham and Cheese

by Chaya Tong

The Room on the Fifth Floor (Part 1)

by Sophia Qin

Lavender

by Amanda Kang

Me, the Woman and the Man

by Shirzad

How Kombucha Ruined My Life

by Haley Hanna Long

“don’t know when i’ll be back again”

by Celia

For Them All

by Isabelle Ivy Pass

Central Park

by Adia Loftis, age 15

Controlling Fate

by Chaya Tong

Bakery Blues

by Amanda Kang

Three Minutes

by Adia Loftis

Benevolence of Change

by Yumadi Aye, age 15

The Biggest Game of my Life

by Harley Wilf, age 16

Nervous

by Zehava Sanders, age 15

for the poets

by Foster Schrader, age 15

Weird Dream

by Julien Gotay, age 15

Potatoes to Apples

by Emily Gil, age 16

Golden Blood (Excerpt)

by Alia Scheuneman, age 15

Glasses

by Zehava Sanders, age 15

Enough Is Enough

by Ariana Quintana, age 16

I So Don’t Want to Be Here (Excerpt)

by Lilly "Sheila" Verkaik, age 15

Seasons

by Lilly "Sheila" Verkaik, age 15

Trump Tower

by Savva Vlasov, age 15

It was June 18th, 1999

by Thomas Frix, age 15

The Absence of Hope

by Percy Unger, age 15

grey

by Ria Chaudhary, age 15

gasoline sickness

by Ria Chaudhary, age 15

Darling

by Gexing Crystal Chen, age 15

partition

by Sameer Jha, age 16

Stigma

by Ariana, age 15

Province of Darkness

by Jesse Dickersin, age 16

Laughter Heals All Wounds

by Asha Romaine, age 16

M.

by Elizabeth, age 16

The Curious Cottage

by Maddie Gold, age 15

The Factory

by Maya Eng Garcia, age 15

Chasing Stars

by Anna Roberson, age 16

Janitor

by Eva Brachfeld, age 15

The Teddy Bear

by Talia Fader Idelson, age 15

Space Baby

by Talia Fader Idelson, age 15

Colorado

by Annika Larson, age 16

Iceland

by Annika Larson, age 16

The Worst Roommate

by Amalee Burden, age 16

Downward Spiral

by Bryan Yamsuan, age 15

A Rainbow Appears

by Steele, age 15

Basketball Should Not Be Done with One-and-Done

by Michael Spenner, age 15

Time Wears Gloves

by Ethan Kim, age 16; Sara Traynor, age 16; and Reagan Prior, age 16

Peeled Away

by Sara Traynor, age 16; Ethan Kim, age 16; and Reagan Prior, age 16

Anger and Fear

by Reagan Prior, age 16; Sara Traynor, age 16; and Ethan Kim, age 16

The Foundation behind the Teal Ribbon*

by Ariana Quintana, age 15

The Stag

by Caedmon, age 16

First a Whimper, Than a Roar

by Penelope Birnbaum, age 15

Nameless

by Lilinaz, age 15

Psychologist

by Andrew Yuen, age 15

Rowdy

by Rachel Pepper, age 16

Breathe Again

by Madison Carter, age 15

The Sky (A Sestina)

by Annie Siegal, age 15

Achoo the Llama

by Annie Siegal, age 15

Anxiety

by Mollie R. Finnegan, age 16

A Man-made World

by Mollie R. Finnegan, age 16

A Collection of Fears

by Serena Lee, age 15

Inquisition

by Henry Rosser, age 15

Melt Away

by Luke Corpina, age 15

Maturity

by Luke Corpina, age 15

Houses on May 28th

by Reagan Prior, age 16

The Stone of Shadows

by Jesse Dickersin, age 15

An Old Friend

by Helen, age 15

on sin: wrath

by Reina Makimura, age 15

Butter

by Stina Trollbäck, age 16

Honeysuckle Yellow Sunny Socks

by Stina Trollbäck, age 16

The Last Time I Saw You

by Rebecca Fields, age 16

Ants

by Jacqueline Lydon, age 16

I Remember

by Rebecca Fields, age 16

A Sky Full of Mediocrity

Angela Wu

Lost

Iyanna Lewis

Imaginationland

Noah Goodman

I’m Not People

Stephanie Okun

My Love

Britany

Life Lost, Love Hidden

Matthew

Xanthous

Quinn Lowe

San Francisco Collective

Anonymous

Bloody Sunday

By Beatrice Forman, age 15

My Brother’s Shadow

By Sofia Lesnewski, age 15

Snowglobe

By Kaley Mamo, age 16

Heartbeat

By Siona Prasad, age 15

When the Clocks Stop (Excerpt)

By Jackie Weymouth, age 15

Lost

By Siona Prasad, age 15

This Place Called Home

By Alice Heyeh, age 15

Trich

By Anonymous

The Telephone Wants to Retire

By Alice Heyeh, age 15

judas is crying now

By Leelu, age 15

Letters

By Sofia Lesnewski, age 15

Immortality

By Max Zheng, age 15

My Body Is a Temple

By Sarah Stone, age 16

Angst Declassified: Teen Survival Guide

By Beatrice Forman, age 15

Arilla and Endar

By Lauren, age 16

In Search Of

By Beatrice Forman, age 15

The Legendary Magician

By Nicco T. Chin, age 15

Cactus Blooms

By Amanda Cronin, age 16

The Sweetest Dreams

By Pamela Buscema, age 16

Supernovas

By Kaley Mamo, age 15

Penny Lane

By Amanda Cronin, age 16

A Crinkled Page

By Stephanie Okun, age 16

Wishful Thinking

by Annabelle O'Reilly, age 15

To Me, Izzy Meant

by Ivy Trocco, age 15

Thunderstorms

by Georgia Silverman, age 15

The Last Moments of a Noble Man

by Julien Verdeaux-Gonzalez, age 15

The Death of the Party

by Ethan Liu, age 15

Newly Independent

by Aidan McCaul, age 15

Masked and Lost in Thought

by Christine Green, age 15

Flower Poem

by Hale Jones, age 15

Dreams and Silence

by Ethan Liu, age 15

Homophones

by Sophie Ewing, age 15

Commencement

by Aidan McCaul, age 15

All Right

by Isabella, age 15

An Excerpt from an Untitled Novel

by Natalia Duane, age 15

All Kinds of Wonderful

by Susannah Epstein-Boley, age 15

The Written Sea

by Caelan, age 15

BROKEN CITIES FINAL PIECE

by Celia Bernhardt, age 15

Her Silhouette

by Zoe Zelken, age 15

Yelp Review

by Caelan Campbell, age 15

The Guy’s Perspective

by Bryce Hauver-Reeves, age 15

Vanilla Sugar

by Maya Mitrasinovic, age 15

Love Letter

by Kaley Mamo, age 15

Food Entry 5

by Sophie Young, age 16

Muddy Eyes

by Kaley Mamo, age 15

Into The Green

by Amanda Cronin, age 15

John F. Kennedy International Airport Adventures

by Maya Mitrasinovic, age 15

Parfait Pantoum

by Beckie Ryan, age 16

Memoriae Vitarum

by Sarah Stone, age 15

Satires: A Collection of Current-Event Satires

by Johnathan Stimpson, age 16

The Mistress

by Amelia Bisaccia, age 15

The Afterlife

by Amelia Bisaccia, age 15

Cartography

by Miranda Spencer

Animal Wedding

by Joshua vanBiema

A Prayer for Elizabeth

by Eliana Gayle-Schneider

Getting Ready

by Stephanie Okun

Nobody in this Story Is a Cannibal

Gary Sowder

Raven

Dancin Feldman

Fire at The Don Cesar

by Lily Davis

Voices

by Hannah Young

The Girl With The Map Face

by Nikita Bleyer

Not Sure What You Mean by Unrelatable: A Study in Humanities

by Jane Herz

We Shatter Glass Globes

by Annalee Tai

Missing Mae

by Eliza Rubin

Should The Government Ban Large Sodas?

By Emmaline Ellsworth

Oasis for Lost Souls

by Kaley Mamo