Submitting to Writing Contests
By Grace Zhang Beads of sweat dripping down my neck, I slowly moved the cursor to the bottom of the screen to login. An explosion of...
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- Jul 31
- 3 min
The Time Traveller's Guide to Parallel Narratives
By Renee Chen Though only recently popularized in filmmaking by Hollywood directors, parallel storylines have long been used by novelists...
- Apr 9, 2021
- 6 min
Seven Reasons Why Writing Listicles Are Stupid
By Giancarlo Riccobon Hands-down, a literary listicle is the laziest, most derivative, most cynical thing that a web publication can...
- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
Q&A - How important are writing programs to an author/editor's abilities?
By Brooke Nind and Melanie Van Peenen Brooke Nind Writing programs are a wonderful experience and an opportunity for young writers to...
- Dec 5, 2020
- 4 min
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...
- Oct 31, 2020
- 4 min
Editing Pieces with Poorly Planned Plots
By Melanie Van Peenen Perhaps Rudolf Clausius was wrong about entropy, or disorder, being the natural state of the universe. For...
- Oct 31, 2020
- 7 min
Writing Prompts and How to Best Use Them
By Ishita Shah, Manal Nadeem, and Kyra Chiller I’ll go out on a limb here and predict that your creative process is anything but linear....
- Sep 30, 2020
- 6 min
Genre Editor Q&A
By Pauline Paranikas, Daniel Boyko, Danielle Sherman, and Lara Katz We recently received the following questions from a writer: What...
- Jul 29, 2020
- 3 min
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...
- Jul 29, 2020
- 8 min
Getting Published as a Teen Part One
By Ishita Shah, Lara Katz, Daniel Boyko, and Zoha Arif Sometimes I have a feeling that the geniuses who birthed the English language got...
- Jul 29, 2020
- 6 min
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...
- Apr 28, 2020
- 5 min
Editing a Piece That Seems Really Personal
By Daniel Boyko, Yong-Yu Huang, and Zoha Arif March 24, 2020. A wild Tuesday. Scattered rain. Afternoon: mildly cloudy. I wish for the...
- Apr 28, 2020
- 6 min
The Nature of Editorial Feedback
By Anya Chabria and Daniel Boyko If you work for Polyphony Lit, you’re more than familiar with this message from Billy: “With Polyphony...
- Mar 30, 2020
- 2 min
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,...
- Mar 27, 2020
- 4 min
Q&A - Why should people join Polyphony?
By Daniel Boyko, Hannah Ramsey, Yong-Yu Huang, and Lara Katz Yong-Yu Huang: Polyphony gives you the chance not only to read brilliant...
- Mar 25, 2020
- 3 min
Writing for the Quarantine
So… Life is weird right now. If you’re like us, school has been cancelled and you’re sitting at home working through whatever online...
- Jan 4, 2020
- 5 min
What worries did you have about joining Polyphony and how did they play out?
By Giancarlo Riccobon, Vivien Song, Zoha Arif, Jessica Sidrak, and Maya Nalawade While it would be nice to think of us editors as...
- Dec 15, 2019
- 4 min
What do you wish you’d known before joining Polyphony?
By Yong-Yu Huang, Jessica Kim, Jennifer Wang, and Zoha Arif Yong-Yu: I wish that I had known how tall and wobbly the fence would be––I’ve...
- Mar 30, 2019
- 2 min
Dear First Readers:
By Pauline Paranikas As an executive editor, I spend most of my time on any given submission editing previous editors’ comments and...
- Dec 1, 2018
- 5 min
Mini-Post Series: My First Story
Seven Polyphony editors and Voices contributors collaborate to provide you with amusing narratives of the very first story they ever...
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