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    Editor Replaces Every Word in their Commentary With Longer Synonym
    • 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 ...
    Editing Pieces with Poorly Planned Plots
    • 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 somethin...
    Writing Prompts and How to Best Use Them
    • 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. ...
    Genre Editor Q&A
    • 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 dete...
    Q&A - Have there been any awkward moments in your Polyphony career?
    • 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...
    Getting Published as a Teen Part One
    • 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 ...
    Daily Struggles of a Nitpicky Editor
    • 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 veget...
    Editing a Piece That Seems Really Personal
    • 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 su...
    The Nature of Editorial Feedback
    • 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 L...
    Movie Review: The Kindergarten Teacher (2018, Maggie Gyllenhaal):What to do with a gifted child poet
    • 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, teache...
    Q&A - Why should people join Polyphony?
    • 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 pie...
    Writing for the Quarantine
    • 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 lear...
    What worries did you have about joining Polyphony and how did they play out?
    • 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 fearles...
    What do you wish you’d known before joining Polyphony?
    • 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...
    Dear First Readers:
    • 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 writi...
    Mini-Post Series: My First Story
    • 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 wrot...
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