By Yong-Yu Huang There are so many opportunities to enter your work in writing contests––many geared towards students are even free!...

By Sophene Avedissian and Daniel Boyko Sophene Avedissian: No matter how long I wait for the words to spill out of me, my fingers stay...

What is the best editing advice you've ever received? Three Polyphony Lit editors share their wisdom on crafting stellar commentary.

By Sophene Avedissian and Yong-Yu Huang Sophene Avedissian: Staring intensely at the bright computer screen in front of you, you finish...

By Daniel Boyko and Brooke Nind How has your experience as an editor changed you as a writer? Daniel Boyko: When I first began writing as...

By Hannah Ramsey To me, a “personal piece” can fall under one of two categories: 1) a piece that is in some way relevant to my personal...

By Neeraja Kumar and Anika Mukker Neeraja Kumar: I got my most helpful piece of writing advice from my ten-year-old sister over a hastily...

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...

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...

By Giancarlo Riccobon Hands-down, a literary listicle is the laziest, most derivative, most cynical thing that a web publication can...

By Anika Mukker Your computer pings with the sound of an email bringing you your next forwarded submission. While logging into...

By Brooke Nind and Melanie Van Peenen Brooke Nind Writing programs are a wonderful experience and an opportunity for young writers to...

By Ishita Shah, Kate-Yeonjae Jeong You've just finished a masterpiece. One that will be remembered for the next millennia to come; that...

By Shelly Bhagat & Hannah Ramsey Shelly Bhagat: You’re cruising along, writing that story you can't wait to submit until you decide to...

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...

By Brooke Nind, Nithya Ramcharan, Grace Zhang, and Neeraja Kumar Brooke Nind: Rejection is redirection. I know it’s cheesy and you’ve...

By Pauline Paranikas As you read your most recent Polyphony Lit submission, you find yourself growing increasingly confused. Something...

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

By Melanie Van Peenen Perhaps Rudolf Clausius was wrong about entropy, or disorder, being the natural state of the universe. For...

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....