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new! “Tell me it isn’t true!” [A Good Read by Kimberly MacCormack]
new! “Do you think Boo Radley’s still alive?” [Out Loud! by Evangeline Delgado]
new! Achilles and Patroclus: On Point [The Draft Board by Kevin Hong]
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“The other saber, Luke—the other saber.” [Pencil Shavings on "Nakedness"] …
How often must I ask if you are sick? [Verse by Phoebe Nir]……
Absorb orbs [Verse by Catherine Saterson]
“u wuld laiike / scarf? Cold Coca-Cola?” [Verse by Josh Calvo]
Little sickle, you are my new moon [Pencil Shavings on "Outhouses"]
What’s behind the golden curtains? [Verse by Aliza Polkes]
The Infinite Minute [A Good Read by Kevin Hong]
I press the solid force that is right now [Verse by Laurel Durning-Hammond]
Don’t touch that cat! [Five Short Verses by Sadie McCarney]
She smuggled back a piece of sun … [Verse by Ashton Kittredge]
The Naturalists: A reading [Out Loud! by Erica Berry]
First were the broken sunsets … [Fiction by Melanie Wang]
Pencil Shavings: All past topics are now open for submissions.
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Writing & Publishing News:
• “Thursday,” a poem by Evangeline Delgado, W & P ‘11, of Bozeman, Montana, received an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, sponsored by the Department of English at Hollins University, and was named a finalist in the Poetry Society of America’s annual Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Award for the best unpublished poem by a high school student from the United States. (Two poems by the 2010 Bishop Prize winner in Verse, Haeyeon Cho, join “Thursday” on the Honorable Mention list for the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest. Both of Cho’s poems will appear this spring on The Blue Pencil Online.)
• The 2010 Bishop Prizes in the news: “FM Student has the Write Stuff“ [Southern Denton County, Texas]; “Milton Academy Student Recognized for Poem” [Quincy, Massachusetts]
• Kevin Hong, W & P ‘11, received special merit in the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize run by the editors of The Kenyon Review. Read more here.
• Gabriella Fee, W & P ‘10, of Lincoln, Massachusetts, has won the Silver Award for a portfolio of verse and prose that qualified for the National Round of judging in the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, run by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers to honor “exceptional artistic and literary talent.” Gabriella has been invited to attend the National Awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in early June. Mary Carter, W & P ‘10, Kevin Hong, ‘11, Laura Wanamaker, ‘12, and Elana Yoffie, ‘12, all received regional recognition. Read more here.
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The Blue Pencil Online is edited and produced by the students in the Writing & Publishing Program at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, in Natick, Massachusetts. The magazine seeks to publish the best of literary work in English by young writers (12–18) around the world.
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