The –ISM Youth Files Live Event
The –ISM Youth Files is a youth project focusing on writings and interviews about mental health. The e-book collection of monologues, personal essays, poetry and short graphic novelettes will be…
Meet the writers of the –ISM Youth Files at Our Event, August 27 at 2 PM
Join us August 27th at 2pm at Curious Comedy in Portland (or at home via live-streaming) to meet our 20 youth writers in Portland and from around the country and India! We will be sharing…
Jenell Theobald
Creator of the essay "The Many Who Don't Fit In" Jenell Theobald is an incoming sophomore at the International School of Beaverton. Like many Americans, she inherited many different cultural backgrounds.…
Keona Burch (Rose Zhang)
Creator of the poems "A Wish for Rain" and "Fault" Keona Burch (Rose Zhang) is from Portland, Oregon, but currently studying at Northfield Mount Hermon, a boarding high school in Massachusetts.…
Danica Leung
Creator of the graphic novel "Wild Geese" A recent graduate from Lincoln High School, Danica Leung (she/her) intends to study political science at Emory University as a freshman in the fall. She…
Kylynn Lucio
KyLynn Hattie Lucio (she/hers) is a Native American junior at Springfield Public Schools (Minnesota) in the hopes of becoming a therapist or a writer. This will be KyLynn’s first time having her…
Trini Feng
Trini Feng (she/her) is a high school senior from suburban Illinois. She enjoys writing in a variety of genres and forms, always finding a new way to experiment with language. Her…
Kaitlyn O’Neill
As a current high school student at Oregon Episcopal School, Kaitlyn O’Neill(she/her) discovered her love for poetry in her tenth-grade English class. Kaitlyn has always had a passion for performing, so…