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Apr 9, 20214 min read
Q&A - How have your opinions on the genres changed since joining Polyphony?
By Hannah Ramsey, Nithya Ramcharan, and Anika Mukker Hannah Ramsey: When I first signed up to be a staff member for the magazine, I had...
Oct 30, 20204 min read
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...
Sep 1, 20208 min read
Writing To Make a Difference
By Alex Baker, Shelly Bhagat, Daniel Boyko, and Anika Mukker Alex Baker: How many of you out there know the feeling of writing something...
Jul 29, 20203 min read
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...
Apr 28, 20205 min read
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...
Mar 30, 20202 min read
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 26, 20204 min read
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 29, 20192 min read
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, 20185 min read
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...
Sep 27, 20183 min read
Remembering writers are people
Sometimes we forget that writing is human. Our authors' comments remind us that it is. By Kelly Farley Because Polyphony is based on...
Sep 20, 20185 min read
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...
Sep 20, 20185 min read
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,...
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