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End at the Beginning, Begin at the End (That’s Right, You Heard Me)

By Giancarlo Riccobon Whoa, time out. You can’t just mess around with your story’s timeline. The only way to tell a story is in...

Editor Replaces Every Word in their Commentary With Longer Synonym

By Ishita Shah and Nithya Ramcharan It’s Friday evening, and you’re spending the night at home. There are no after-school commitments or...

Q&A - What has your greatest struggle with editing been?

By Brooke Nind, Anika Mukker, Eva Zheng and Daniel Boyko Brooke Nind My greatest struggle with editing has been crafting general...

Poet Misreads Instructions; Accidentally Submits Piece Containing Only Personally Identifying Inform

By Yong-Yu Huang, Eva Zheng, and Neeraja Kumar WARNING: This piece is a work of fiction. Please do not include identifying information if...

Q&A - Have there been any awkward moments in your Polyphony career?

By Pauline Paranikas, Yong-Yu Huang, Nithya Ramcharan, Brooke Nind, and Neeraja Kumar Pauline Paranikas: I don’t know if this necessarily...

Daily Struggles of a Nitpicky Editor

By Julia Zacharski, Zoha Arif, Yong-Yu Huang, and Grace Zhang Your grandmother may have told you that perfection is like honey on a...

Poet Submits Piece Containing Every Literary Device

By Zoha Arif They say that Einstein birthed the theory of relativity in the mystic dungeon of a Swiss Patent Office. They say that Isaac...

What it Takes to Move a Reader to Tears Without Chopping Onions

By Zoha Arif Kids, behold Master Sensei, the CEO and Founder of the Fortune 500 Onion Ninja Industries. Master Sensei has been prosperous...

Movie Review: The Kindergarten Teacher (2018, Maggie Gyllenhaal):What to do with a gifted child poet

By Maya Nalawade The Kindergarten Teacher, a 2018 film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, brings up an essential question for any parent,...

Editing a Famous Poem With Polyphony Guidelines

By Zoha Arif I ate a popsicle today -- blue raspberry, thank you for asking -- on the school bus because I felt like it even though, in...

Poetry vs Prose: Battle of the Genres

By Daniel Boyko, Jennifer Wang, and Zoha Arif Some people eat paper. Some prefer poetry, others eat prose, and some are on a more diverse...

Submission Manager Develops a Mind of its Own 100%

By Zoha Arif ***First and foremost, you must address this piece as “A Manifesto from Lord Bob” as that is its rightful title, but the...

World falls apart as new reader pastes notes in wrong field

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." ~W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" Scenario #1: Your internal notes are essentially the same...

Welcome to Voices! - Part 1

Meet Voices' co-founder, Riley Grace Borden. My name is Riley Grace Borden. Some call me Riley, and others, Riley Grace (I’m not going to...

Welcome to Voices - Part 2

Meet Kelly Farley: At four years old, I loved the color purple—so much so that I skipped down the hall with purple markers in both hands,...