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Read Issue #310

The Dissection Question

By Emma Cairns Watson

In Emma Cairns Watson’s off-kilter tale “The Dissection Question,” 13-year-old Nadine tries to impress her friend Selby by signing up for an adult dating service—and gets both much more and much less than she ever expected.

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Read Issue #309

You Can Be More

By Kavi Yaga

In Kavi Yaga’s “You Can Be More,” a woman believes she is cursed with bad luck that afflicts those around her. Is there a cure? There might be, but it comes with a cost she hadn’t counted on.

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Read Issue #74

Railroads

By Luna Hou

A second-generation Chinese American teen attempts to reconcile her new, emerging self with the deep roots of her culture and ancestry in Luna Hou’s Teen Writing Contest-winning story, “Railroads.”

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Announcing our Teen Writing Contest Winners

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Each year at our annual fundraiser, the Literary Debutante Ball, we honor our authors who have published their debut books in the past year. Our 2024 debutantes are ’Pemi Aguda, Puloma Ghosh, Uche Okonkwo, and, Shannon Sanders.

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