The Best Teen Writing of 2016 (ed. Madeleine LeCesne) features selected stories, essays, and poems from the body of writing nationally recognized through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. We’re so excited that sixteen students affiliated with the journal makeup nearly one-third of contributors this year, after eleven students were selected for inclusion in last year’s The Best Teen Writing of 2015. Congratulations to the following sixteen students included in The Best Teen Writing of 2016:
Aidan Forster (SC), Poetry, Blog Editor
Alex Zhang (MI), Poetry, Contributor
Aline Dolinh (VA), Poetry, Staff (Poetry Reader)
Alisha Yi (NV), Poetry, Summer Mentee (Poetry)
Angelo Hernandez-Sias (MI), Flash Fiction, Summer Mentee (Fiction)
Ashley Gong (CT), Poetry, Contributor
Ava Goga (NV), Poetry, Summer Mentee (Poetry)
Carissa Chen (NH), Poetry, Summer Mentee (Poetry)
Daniel Blokh (AL), Poetry, Summer Mentee (Nonfiction)
Jessica Zhang (MA), Poetry, Summer Mentee (Poetry)
Madeline Kim (CA), Personal Essay/Memoir, Summer Mentee (Poetry)
Margot Armbruster (WI), Poetry, Summer Mentee (Poetry)
Maya Eashwaran (GA), Poetry, Summer Mentee (Poetry)
Noel Peng (CA), Poetry, Summer Mentee (Poetry)
Parisa Thepmankorn (NJ), Poetry, Staff (Poetry Reader)
Rachel Page (DC), Short Story, Contributor
