ISSUES Adam Caar Developer Read More

Submit now! Issue XI: Sanguine Sojourn 'Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la... 'Tis the season to... embark on a sanguine sojourn... fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la... Don we now our gay apparel, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la... Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la! In the spirit of keeping the Christmas cheer alive and entering the new year with optimistic energy, we bring to you a theme that promises to keep the whimsy alive within your soul. Behind the veil of our eleventh issue, adventure awaits. From the river to the sea, your heart may travel to where it desires through your words and your art. We seek work that explores untraversed lands and breaches the boundaries of the unknown, both literally and metaphorically. We crave your adventures, the ones beyond the line where the sky meets the sea. So tell us, O traveler, what your sanguine sojourn looks like. And take us on a journey like no other. Subs Open Jan 05, 2026 Subs Close FEB 15, 2026 Submissions Closed!

Join Us Rewrite The Stars is currently hiring! We are currently open for the Graphic Design, Social Media & Marketing, and IT Departments. Scroll down for a full list of the positions that we currently have and the respective guidelines for the same. If you apply when we are closed for applications, we offer no guarantee that you will be accepted to the team. However we are constantly looking for new and innovative ideas so shoot your shot! Please note that as we are a volunteer-run magazine, we appreciate enthusiasm and interest in our magazine and how much time you can dedicate to us rather than your experience. So if you don't have much experience with these platforms, but are eager to learn and explore, please do sign up! We do expect a minimum of 2-3 hours per week though, and thus if you are hired we expect you to keep up to the commitment you signed up for. We look forward to reading your applications! Apply now! Our Positions Thank you for your interest in joining the RTS team! The positions we have are listed below. Please note that we expect you to dedicate at least one hour a week towards working for RTS. Positions: Content and blog articles writer: For our blog, we post articles twice a week. These articles are opinionated pieces related to literature, books, and writing, or writing and publishing tips for young writers. They include book reviews, personal narratives, and creative non-fiction relatable to a teenage audience. The content writer will have to write these pieces regularly, with a minimum of two pieces a month. They will also need to regularly communicate with the Head of Content regarding edits. [Currently Closed] Marketing and social media officer: For this post, you will have to make social media (Instagram) posts once a week. These posts will either be excerpts of pieces of writing from our issues, or blog articles posted on our magazine. You will have to have a decent knowledge of the Instagram algorithm, SEO strategies, and be able to market our magazine well. The social media posts must also be formatted and designed well, so as to be eye catching. Graphic designer: The graphic designer will have the most amount of work during the publication of the issue. We expect our graphic designers to be well equipped with Canva and be able to design aesthetic issues in a short period of time. We estimate that designers will have to create at least one page a day during the issue release months, however this is subject to change depending on the number of pieces we choose to publish. IT and website curator: For this position, you will have to be equipped with Wixsite as this is where our website is hosted. You will have to have knowledge of software and technology, and be equipped with SEO and growth policies. Every week you will need to upload the blog pieces written by our writers to the website, and also market it to increase traction for the website. The website must be updated regularly with news about issues, contests, and change to submission guidelines. Staff writer and editor: For RTS, the staff writer will write fiction/poetry pieces for the magazine. As the editor, your job is to review the pieces submitted and edit them to better suit the issue. Editors will also provide detailed feedback for each of the pieces submitted. [Currently Closed]

Issue I: Look Up At The Stars October 2022 What do the stars symbolise for you? What are you reminded you when you look up at the stars? For RTS's first online issue, we invited artists to submit pieces that revolved around the stars, whether this was through a character, metaphors, symbolism or more. We asked them to let their imagination run wild and send us their best work!! Our contributors went above and beyond with their pieces for this theme. Click the link below to read their beautiful works! Read Now Contributors Poetry Art Prose Creative Non-Fiction Ines Mueller The Stars Comfort Me Laila Asberry Starshaped Shumi My Stars Were Falling And I Caught The Biggest One Zehra Shehzad His Star Yue Hua As The Starlight Shines Through The Leaves A T Rahme Dots Zehra Shehzad Let The Stars Shine Caroline Chou From The Lectern Of Nyx Featured Indie Authors Makayla Jade Captured Dystopia Ishleen Singh Freedom For Eternity Dystopia

YPW Literary Magazine Fair Young Poets Workshops is hosting a community-wide Literary Magazine Fair for young poets between the ages of 13-22 featuring a variety of youth-led literary magazines and writing community members. We hope to bring a stronger sense of inclusion and accessibility to the submission process while bridging the distance between submitters and magazines through this event, while cultivating new connections and passions. What? Join a diverse, passionate community of young writers for a literary magazine fair hosted by Young Poets Workshops! 8 literary magazines/presses are represented throughout 4 panels and workshops over the span of 48 hours, complete with an expedited response period and raffles! Literary organizations being represented arc Fleeting Daze Magazine, kith books, Eucalyptus Lit, and Winged Penny Review. There will be two youth-run literary magazine panels answering questions about their magazines, submissions, and more, a workshop by Rewrite the Stars on submitting for beginners featuring a submit-a-thon, and a panel by kith books on challenges for queer and disabled writers/publishers and holding your own in the publishing process. Throughout these events, the expedited submission period of 48 hours will allow all registered attendees to submit to the following literary magazines for an expedited response/feedback: kith books, Sophon Lit, Fleeting Daze, healthline zine, Rewrite the Stars Review, Eucalyptus Lit, and Winged Penny Review. A raffle for 4 mini-grants of $25 each will be hosted throughout the fair for all attendees. When? Event Schedule: Saturday, August 17th 2024 9:00 a.m. EST Expedited Submission Period starts (ends 9:00 a.m. EST August 19th) 11:00 a.m. EST Rewrite the Stars Workshop 3:00 p.m. EST Youth Lit Mag Panel 1 — Rewrite the Stars, Fleeting Daze, healthline zine, Aster Lit Sunday, August 18th 2024 3:00 p.m. EST Youth Lit Mag Panel 2 — Winged Penny Review, Eucalyptus Lit, Sophon Lit 7:00 p.m. EST kith books panel Who? Open and free to all young poets aged 13-22! How to register? Register now at the Eventbrite link given below. We can't wait to see you there! Register

JOIN US Rewrite The Stars is currently hiring! Scroll down for a full list of the positions that we currently have and the respective guidelines for the same. If you apply when we are closed for applications, we offer no guarantee that you will be accepted to the team. However we are constantly looking for new and innovative ideas so shoot your shot! Please note that as we are a volunteer-run magazine, we appreciate enthusiasm and interest in our magazine and how much time you can dedicate to us rather than your experience. So if you don't have much experience with these platforms, but are eager to learn and explore, please do sign up! We do expect a minimum of 2-3 hours per week though, and thus if you are hired we expect you to keep up to the commitment you signed up for. We look forward to reading your applications! OPEN POSITIONS Social Media Manager (Estimated Time Commitment: 3-4 hours a week) For this post, you will have to make social media (Instagram) posts. These posts will either be excerpts of pieces of writing from our issues, or blog articles posted on our magazine. You will have to have a decent knowledge (or willingness to learn!) about the Instagram algorithm, SEO strategies, and be able to market our magazine well. The social media posts must also be formatted and designed well, so as to be eye catching. Key responsibilities include: Must be able to download tiktok and manage tiktok account Familiairity with social media platforms (primarily instagram and tiktok) preferred Incharge of generating ideas for tiktoks and reels, assisting current social media manager in planning posting schedules, responding to comments and queries Being able to work as a part of team, being organized, and staying on top of deadlines Social Media Volunteer (Estimated Time Commitment: 1-2 hours a week) Key responsibilities include: Creating and scheduling posts, responding to comments and DMs Being able to work as a part of team Following up with social media managers on tasks Graphic Designer (Estimated Time Commitment: 3-4 hours a week) Responsibilities: The graphic designer will have the most amount of work during the publication of the issue. We expect our graphic designers to be well equipped with Canva and be able to design aesthetic issues in a short period of time. We estimate that designers will have to create at least one page a day during the issue release months, however this is subject to change depending on the number of pieces we choose to publi sh. IT and Website Volunteer (Estimated Time Commitment: 2-3 hours a week) Requirements: Experience in full stack development (front end, back end and analytics) Experience in bootstrap Must be able to design an entire website from scratch Knowledge of software and technology, as well as SEO and Growth policies Familiarity with Wixsite as this is where our website is hosted Key responsibilities include: Every week you will need to upload the blog pieces written by our writers to the website, and also market it to increase traction for the website. The website must be updated regularly with news about issues, contests, and change to submission guidelines. (!!New Department!!) Event Management: ( Estimated Time Commitment: 3-4 hours a week) Need people interested in helping RTS coordinate events like open mic nights, release parties, features, mini-issues, etc Need to be able to generate ideas on new events and how to promote RTS, will also have marketing duties Occasionally need to attend other literary events to support the community No event management experience needed, however need to be dedicated, organized and punctual Will be interacting a lot with people and may need to co-host events thus must be comfortable with public speaking and presenting CLOSED POSITIONS Content and Blog Writer (Estimated Time Commitment: 2-3 hours a week) For our blog, we post articles twice a week. These articles are opinionated pieces related to literature, books, and writing, or writing and publishing tips for young writers. They include book reviews, personal narratives, and creative non-fiction relatable to a teenage audience. Key responsibilities include: Write bimonthly articles Generate ideas for articles Review books, newsletters, and other media Communicate with Head of Content regarding edits Prose/Poetry Editors (Estimated Time Commitment: 3-4 hours a week during issue season) Key requirements: Prior editing experience strongly preferred May have an additional copy test Familiarity with the English language, AP style content, MLA citation Must be able to give content edits along with line edits Will edit all accepted pieces Discord Moderator ( Estimated Time Commitment: 2-3 hours a week) Requirements: Must have familiarity with discord moderation Previous experience creating a server preferred Familiarity with bots such as Carl bot and Mee6 or willingless to learn preferred Responsibilities: Set up channels and roles, configure logging bots Constantly moderate server to ensure no wrongdoing or inappropriate behavior What are you waiting for? Apply Now!

Every successful organisation has a number of people working hard behind it. We take this opportunity to introduce you to our wonderful magazine team who strive hard to get each issue of Rewrite The Stars Review out into the world to make publishing a reality for all of you!   MEET THE TEAM Every successful organisation has a number of people working hard behind it. We take this opportunity to introduce you to our wonderful magazine team who strive hard to get each issue of Rewrite The Stars Review out into the world to make publishing a reality for all of you! EDITOR IN CHIEF Meet our beloved founder and editor-in-chief who brought RTS to life! Smrithi Senthilnathan she/her MANAGEMENT Director Varshha (she/her) Varshha is a 19 year old human from Chennai, India, who procrastinates by staring at the stars on the terrace and reading romance books. Loving all things dystopian, she is an artist and a writer who can never seem to write/draw for the genre. If she’s not reading random facts on the internet or watching the ISU championships, she is probably imagining her living in a dystopian future. DEPARTMENT HEADS Meet our department heads who, with their commitment to perfection and dedication to supporting young writers help make our founder's vision for RTS a reality. Director and Head of Staff and IT Varshha (she/her) Varshha is a 19 year old human from Chennai, India, who procrastinates by staring at the stars on the terrace and reading romance books. Loving all things dystopian, she is an artist and a writer who can never seem to write/draw for the genre. If she’s not reading random facts on the internet or watching the ISU championships, she is probably imagining her living in a dystopian future. EDITORS Meet the editors who not only review your submissions but also edit and refine it to make it the best possible version of itself! Editor Briar (she/her) Briar has been writing poetry since highschool and is based in Australia. She has completed a Diploma of Arts. She enjoys many forms of storytelling including film and games. BLOG These are the people who incite your curiosity and offer their advice with their weekly articles <3 Content Writer Milica (she/her) Milica is a freshman in high school with a passion for reading and writing. She enjoys spending her evenings sipping a peach iced tea and typing away at her laptop screen (sometimes even staring at a blank page). Ever since she was 9 years old, Milica’s been fighting her writer’s block while consuming books at a dangerous rate of about 50 per year. Mysteries and thrillers are her guilty pleasure and as much as she reads them she also writes them. GRAPHIC DESIGN Here are the people without whom your pieces would not be presented how they deserve to be :) Graphic Designer Harjot Sangha (she/her) Harjot Sangha is a rising senior in high school who believes heavily in the power of words to inspire change and influence lives. As such, she finds great enjoyment in the acts of reading and writing. Additionally, she enjoys finding new ways to connect to people from learning new languages to listening to new music! SOCIAL MEDIA AND MARKETING They're responsible for giving you guys our latest updates and expanding our fanbase so we can reach more people <3 Social Media Volunteer Pracheta Kar (she/her) I am Pracheta Kar. I love sketching, playing the guitar and singing. I love reading too, and basically exploring different genres. I'm a music enthusiast, and my favourite artists are mostly kpop groups, Taylor Swift and Chase Atlantic, but I also do love bollywood music. I'm currently in my first year of college and I'm pursuing a bachelors in psychology with English as my Minors. EVENTS Always wonder who designed this sleek and accessible website? Here they are! Events Volunteer Chantal (she/her) Chantal (Cece) is a graduating communications student who enjoys reading, writing, and watching musicals and anime. She loves daydreaming about the fictional worlds in her head and loves contributing to platforms where writers can share their voice to others. Cece also loves engaging in events management and marketing campaigns, so she hopes to help more people fall in love with RTS! NEWSLETTER We've expanded our base to Substack to give us a space to elaborate more on what we're currently doing! Meet the team behind our bi-monthly newsletter that includes updates on everything RTS. Newsletter Curator Ellie Kim (she/her) Ellie is an aspiring teen writer, born and raised in America but currently living in Thailand. She loves spending her days with her cats, writing, and reading. From writing sad poetry to romantic prose, Ellie is a swiftie and Gracie Abrams fan at heart, always found with a song in mind. Currently working on her first novel dubbed Project. SS, Ellie is a part of Vellichor Literary Magazine, Girlhood Magazine, Bardics Anonymous Magazine and a few others where she writes, edits and organizes! WEBSITE AND IT Always wonder who designed this sleek and accessible website? Here they are! Website Volunteer Chaitra Shidhalingannavar (she/her) Chaitra is a high school junior from India who loves computer science and literature. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Imperfect Zine, The Cleverly Creatives and the Mosaic Lit Journal among many others. When she's not writing, she can be seen at the dojo, practicing for her next belt exam.

Issue I: Look Up At The Stars October 2022 What do the stars symbolise for you? What are you reminded of when you look up at the stars? For RTS's first online issue, we invited artists to submit pieces that revolved around the stars, whether this was through a character, metaphors, symbolism or more. We asked them to let their imagination run wild and send us their best work!! Our contributors went above and beyond with their pieces for this theme. Click the link below to read their beautiful works! Read Now Contributors Poetry Art Prose Creative Non-Fiction Ines Mueller The Stars Comfort Me Laila Asberry Starshaped Shumi My Stars Were Falling And I Caught The Biggest One Zehra Shehzad His Star Yue Hua As The Starlight Shines Through The Leaves A T Rahme Dots Zehra Shehzad Let The Stars Shine Caroline Chou From The Lectern Of Nyx Featured Indie Authors Makayla Jade Captured Dystopia Ishleen Singh Freedom For Eternity Dystopia

Issue II: Beyond The Shores January 2023 What do the shores symbolize for you? What is your safety line, beyond which is the vast and unknown ocean? And what does it mean to you to cross the comfort of the shore and venture beyond? For RTS's second issue, we invted artists to submit pieces that revolved around the shores, whether this be literal or figurative. We asked them to let their imagination run wild and send us their best work! This issue brings you wonderful pieces by contributors, ranging from all genres and types - from haiku to free verse, science-fiction to historical fantasy, this issue has it all! Click the link below to read their beautiful works. Read Now Contributors Poetry Art Prose Creative Non-Fiction Maitri Sheth Love and Hate, Shores and Waves Camismila Whispers of the Waves of the Past Ines Mueller The Nightmarish Beach Laila Asberry I Dream Of Dry Oceans Yue Hua As The Ocean Meets The Sand Lucy Claire Summertime Tragedy M. Dickson My Love, My Sea Anika Garg Rebirth Mehek Tripathy Touch of Darkness Blen A Seashell Of Passion Jason Wu Defender Of The Shores Allison Kwan Rebirth Featured Indie Authors Suelite Constance Ten Past Two Lara Jane Robinson The Granger Girls

Contact us with any queries. Contact us! Read | Write | Publish A magazine for every young artist rewritethestarsreview@gmail.com Instagram: @rewritethestarsreview Twitter: @rtsmagazine First Name Last Name Email Message Send Thanks for submitting!

Submit to our magazine now! Submissions We are currently accepting submissions for: Blog Article Non fiction - All year round Click here to know more. Issue XI Theme - Sanguine Sojourn Scroll to know more! We are looking for pieces that young readers can relate to, pieces that make you feel something. Stories and poems about the teenage experience, fantasy that readers can use as escapism, worl ds that will suck them in co mpletely, pieces that will strike the very core of human souls are highly encouraged! We also appreciate pieces that are silly, weird, and might be out of place anywhere else. We seek to promote any work that makes us feel any kind of emotion - whether that's amusement, dejection, or nostalgia. Please check our specific themes for what we seek for that theme though! We currently accept submissions for our issues four tim es a year. (March, June, September, December). We are currently closed for issue submissions. Submission Guidelines Submission Inquiries GENERAL All pieces should be in English. If you are including any words in another language, please include translations below Send all pieces as a Google Document/Word Document because this makes it easier to add comments and give feedback. If you are sending a Google Doc, make sure to give us commenting access All pieces should be written in Times New Roman/EB Garamond and font size should be 11 or 12 We have changed our policy of reading name-blind, and will be reviewing submissions with the submitter's context in mind. We highly encourage all creators to add a note to their work so it helps us evaluate the context in which the piece was written and provides more depth to the work. Add the releva nt trigger/content warnings Strictly no smut/anything sexual as this is a magazine for teens Plagiarism, offensive slurs and hate speech are strictly not allowed, If we find any submissions with the same, we will delete it and bar the author from sending to us in the future. ISSUE We allow four kinds of submissions: pr ose, poetry, visual artwork, and creative non-fiction. Per cycle, an author or artist may only submit to one category . Within that category, you can submit how many ever submissions are allowed for that particular category. Specific limits and instructions for each category are listed below. We will design an individual layout for each accepted piece, and reserve the right to design the layout as we believe best fits the piece. For pieces that are accepted, contributors will be emailed about details of publication, issue release parties, and features on our blog. Contributors have the right to accept/decline invitations as they please. Excerpts from accepted pieces will be promoted on our social media. The contributor reserves the right to choose whether they would like to be tagged or not. BLOG No fiction or poetry submissions are allowed for our blog. Any such submissions will be deleted and rejected immediately. Pieces must be engaging and interesting pieces related to the bookish and writing industry. Any unrelated pieces such as makeup or skincare articles will be deleted and rejected immediately. For any research-related article, authors are expected to cite their sources below. Heads of blog department reserve the right to make any edits to the piece as they see fit. We also reserve the right to later archive a blog post if we feel it does not resonate with the theme of our magazine on a later date. We expect blog posts to be written in a fairly formal tone. Conversationality is fine, but a complete disregard of proper spelling and grammar is not. Topics for blog posts are expected to be interesting and unusual, and entice readers. Word count for blog posts is 500-800 words. We may accept longer articles, however this is dependant on the subject of the article itself. Prose: Any forms of prose are accepted with a maximum limit of 1500 words. Format it accordingly with the required line and paragraph breaks and submit as a Word Document or a Google Docs. During a single cycle you can submit a maximum of 1 story of less than 1500 words, or 3 micro stories of less than 500 words each. Attach them in the same document, split it with page breaks and submit it. Poetry: Any forms of poetry are accepted with a maximum limit of 30 lines. We are not strict on line count, however the poem must not exceed 2 pages. Format it accordingly with the required line breaks and submit as a Word Document or a Google Docs. During a single cycle you can submit a maximum of 3 poems. [For issue viii, we are only accepting one poem per author.] Attach them in the same document, split it with page breaks and submit it. Art: We accept both digital and traditional art, however if it is traditional, we expect a good quality picture with no disturbances. We allow a maximum of 3 pieces per submission. [For issue viii, we are only accepting one piece per artist.] We ask that you merge all 3 of them into a single file and submit it. Creative Non-Fiction: Creative non-fiction includes essays on current world issues, book reviews, personal anecdotes, etc. We allow a maximum of 1 piece per submission, with a maximum word count of 1000 words. Photography: A maximum of three pieces can be submitted. The clarity must be high. Should be submitted in JPEG format. Submission Categories Prose Poetry Art Creative Non-fiction Photography Our New Policies If you submitted to a previous issue, you have to wait a whole cycle to submit to RTS again. For example, if you submitted to issue 8, you cannot submit to issue 9 and have to wait until issue 10 to submit to RTS again. This rule will go in place from today, i.e. if you submitted to issue 7 you can still submit to issue 8. This does not apply to features or mini issues, and you can submit to how many ever of those that you please. When we first started our magazine, we didn't have a lot of submitters so we wanted to encourage whoever wanted to to submit. However, now we believe we have a decent enough reach not to worry about reaching an adequate number of submissions, and thus we want to promote more writers instead of the same writers again. Don't get us wrong - we absolutely love recurring contributors! However, we'd like to give new people discovering us more of a chance too :) If you submit a piece that does not adhere to the submission guidelines, your piece will not be read, your submission will be automatically rejected, and you will be issued a warning. In the past we have been a bit more lenient with submissions that didn't meet the requirements, however it becomes extremely hard for our editors to keep track. Please read all the guidelines on our website thoroughly including the number of pieces you are allowed to submit and the instructions on how to title your document. Any piece that doesn't meet the guidelines will be put on a warning list, and if any single person gets three warnings they will be blacklisted from submitting to RTS. This also applies for people submitting our application form to closed positions (if a position is closed, it will be indicated on the application form itself). Note: The only exceptions to this rule we will accept are with respect to word/line counts, and that is only for marginal differences (<100 words). If your piece exceeds the maximum word count, please DM our Instagram or email to make sure it's okay. Only after receiving our confirmation that it's okay to submit can you submit this piece without receiving a warning. Anchor 1 Facts & Questions All Your Questions Answered In One Place Why should I submit? If you wrote a story that you're really proud of, or created an art piece you adore, and want more people to read and see it, we highly encourage you to submit. We understand how difficult it can be to put yourself and your work out there, but we're also young writers who started from humble beginnings, so we hope you trust us and take a chance. At RTS, we review all the pieces and provide individual feedback for all of them (only if requested for). We also take very good care of your piece (check this post (https://www.instagram.com/p/C3mEToqSLKo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)for more motivation to submit!). No matter whether we decide to publish your piece or not, rest be assured that we will treat it with the respect it deserves, and make sure you're on the right track of your publishing journey <3 Who can submit? The aim of our magazine is to provide a platform for young and marginalized artists. We hope Rewrite The Stars Review serves as a platform for amateur artists where they can publish for the first time and use this magazine as a stepping stone into the formal literary world. Although we predominantly publish work by young artists in the age group 13-25, we do believe that there is no age for someone to begin writing. We will consider work from older creators, however we may prioritize publishing work by writers submitting for the first time, rather than authors with an extensive publication history. That being said, we encourage artists and writers from any part of the world to submit! What/When can I submit? We have submissions to our magazine which publishes quarterly. Check this page (https://rewritethestarsrev.wixsite.com/rewrite-the-stars)for more details. For our issues, we accept fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, visual art and photography. We accept submissions to our blog year round! We are looking for articles about the reading and writing community, whether this be your hot take on a popular trope or a rant about literary magazine rejections. Check this page (https://rewritethestarsrev.wixsite.com/rewrite-the-stars/blog)for more details. Apart from these, we also will occasionally be having special events and contests! More details on this are published on our socials, follow us on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/rewritethestarsreview/)for updates <3 Where do I submit? Check the Issues (https://rewritethestarsrev.wixsite.com/rewrite-the-stars/submit-to-our-latest-issue)page to submit to our magazine, and the Blog (https://rewritethestarsrev.wixsite.com/rewrite-the-stars/blog)page to submit to the blog. Please adhere to the submissions guidelines as this makes it easier for us to review them. Interested? Submit now! Blog submissions are open year-round. Submissions for Issue XI: Sanguine Sojourn are open now! Submit to blog Submission Link

Rewrite The Stars Review's Ninth Magazine Issue! Issue IX: Welcome to Wonderland April 2025 Welcome to Wonderland. For this issue, we asked submitters to explore what Wonderland means to them, figuratively or literally. We asked for stories, poems, essays, artwork, and photography that captured the mayhem, madness, and magic of carnivals. Whether it's the bright lights of the Ferris wheel, the eerie silence of the funhouse, or the strange characters lurking amidst the shadows of the tents, we wanted to see your most imaginative and vivid interpretations. Our contributors evoke the thrill of the ride, help us feel the taste of cotton candy on our tongues, and transport us to a strange, surreal world where reality bends and twists all in its path. Read on to see in their own words what a carnival represents to them. Read Now CONTRIBUTORS POETRY Riddhi Iyer To be Human (Staff Contribution) Aurora Skye Vessel Ezra Mukami Untitled Jaiden Geolingo Here, Grief Angela Acosta Approximation of Latin American Diya Kapoor the big thing that lives in the sky Nirmit Mittal To Gaza Lydia Rae Bush Risk Ruth Towne Sweets to the Sweet Gabby Parkinson Lost in Translation Ray Shubert Purpose Mia Jevtic sentenced to your love Rah Royal the first twelve years of my life Liv Gamble How To Exist Nina Stadermann Reverie Muskan Gupta Poof and Gone Milan Singh Blur AC. Sandglass Just Talk Alexys K. Beautiful and Human Ruby Dyan My Day Wong Eu Kenn Michelangelo's Sculpture Sundos Hejazi art of life/life of art Kit Thurston-Mathews A Kitten's Offering Aunezti Burk What Day Is It? Rowan Through the artist's lens Nevaeh Phillips Life doesn’t end Chloe we were Urja Srivastava an understanding of the human experience Inaya Aly Khan Lunacy in a Fifteen Year Old Zoe Moon Xoxo Yuvika Gupta The Life Express Chloe Ho Chamber Music Maryam Majid I don't believe in atoms (I want to touch something) Jessamine Jin Infinities Cora McCullough Is Kindness Words Or Actions? Liv L. Ascend Bryan Duong Milstead faded gleam, renewed dream Halley Kunen Engine Flitting Malcolm Wernestrom it's a dog eat dog world Ivy J My Eurydice Friends W. E. Everhart Humanity weeps Asad R. Unexpected Transmission layla h. your best girl Rahil Najafabadi The Correspondence PROSE Isabel Loytty Highway Shannon Tran Grief & Bliss Elizabeth Butler Unnatural Selection E. Syson Seventeen Years (and an Extra Few Weeks) Alana Rodrigues Birch, Law of the Wild Aleeza Aneel who? me? Kiara Turner My Angst and Me Nusayba Bokhari Seeds alarminglytired (Nyx) As The Zephyr Wind Blows Claire M.M. A Ferryman's Fate Soraya Saros Crop of Prometheus Madison Cossaboom We Are The Fish Meagan Da capo sunny Our Paths Will Cross Again, I Promise Aki Rayne The Man by the Pond Arianna Kanji to be human is to wait Andrea Balingit The Exam Svara Carmel Narasiah Enough Alin Sengjaroen Tenderly Yours Phoenix Eddolls Death's favourite mortician Roukia Ali "The Old Brag" Ara Djati When Light Refracts Kaitlyn Fan Headed Towards Home FJGCSABA What are we defined as? How? Robert Aden Lonergan STRAWBERRY MILK CREATIVE NON-FICTION Kai Existential Espresso Kaitlyn Abrielle McCormick Eden Sydney Lynn A Letter From Ireland Zainab Ansari older and bigger Sophia Quintana The Numbers Game Clara Salo Meaning in Platonic Forms Elizabeth Maxwell What's next? Julia Vellucci Roses and Resilience ART Yasmin Kareem The depths within Desi Distel Northside gang:) Tehya Metzinger The Lake Sleeps Under the Willow Mitra Arianfar Lingering Touch PHOTOGRAPHY Sophia Liu Invisible China FEATURED INDIE AUTHORS Pavla Leitgebova The Deadliest Wish Sera Amoroso The Makria Cycle-Torsion