Want a motivator to take your students’ writing to a higher level? Here’s an opportunity to write for a real audience, and the chance to get published by an award-winning magazine.

Writing Contest

Spring 2016: “What We Fear” Middle School Winner Deedee Jansen

Read Deedee’s essay, “How Do You Spell: Afriad, Dislexsa, Faer,” about how people’s biases toward dyslexia can lock her in a cage, but having dyslexia can also be a blessing for seeing

Writing Contest

Spring 2016: “What We Fear” High School Winner Clair Williamson

Read Clair’s essay, “A Different Kind of Relapse” about how her struggle with depression has motivated her to accept the love and kindness of those around her.

Writing Contest

Spring 2016: “What We Fear” University Winner Dion Medina

Read Dion’s essay, “Chronic Pain,” about sacrificing an active lifestyle—and inheriting an unthinkable future—to manage avascular necrosis, a disease that causes bone to slowly die.

Writing Contest

Spring 2016: “What We Fear” Powerful Voice Winner Jazmyn Bryant

Read Jazmyn’s essay, “A Serf in the Midst of Feudalism” about personally confronting racial injustice, and how necessary it is to act collectively for a reformed system.

Writing Contest

Spring 2016: “What We Fear” Powerful Voice Winner Jonah Gold

Read Jonah’s essay, “A Future Me,” about the challenge in balancing two different parts of himself, and his efforts toward becoming proud of the part he’s less comfortable with.