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

By Daniel Boyko, Hannah Ramsey, Yong-Yu Huang, and Lara Katz Yong-Yu Huang: Polyphony gives you the chance not only to read brilliant pieces from teen writer...

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 learning looks like for ...

By Giancarlo Riccobon, Vivien Song, Zoha Arif, Jessica Sidrak, and Maya Nalawade While it would be nice to think of us editors as fearless knights of literat...

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 found that a piece ...

By Pauline Paranikas As an executive editor, I spend most of my time on any given submission editing previous editors’ comments and writing feedback to those...

Seven Polyphony editors and Voices contributors collaborate to provide you with amusing narratives of the very first story they ever wrote. Adriana Carter Th...