Presenting “Still Life” a short story by the 2024 JBWC Youth Fellow, Zazie Anastasopoulos.
Meet Zazie Anastasopoulos, the winner of the 2024 JBWC Youth Fellowship—a program offering young writers the opportunity to develop their craft and explore professional avenues within the literary arts.
Applications for the 2024 JBWC Youth Fellowship are officially open as of today, March 1, 2024!
Presenting a selection of pieces from Blood Rummage by 2023 JBWC Youth Fellow Jonah Ruddock, who explores how a microplastic traverses a wilderness of waste and decay. "Remember: everything is touching everything else, and everyone is lying to you."
JBWC Fellow Jonah Ruddock has been busy this month working on his Fellow project: a micro-chapbook about microplastics, which he hopes to turn into a zine. Why microplastics?
Meet Jonah Ruddock, the winner of the 2023 JBWC Youth Fellowship—a program offering young writers the opportunity to develop their craft and explore professional avenues within the literary arts.
Presenting Bringing Buffalo Back: The Return of the Labor Movement written by 2022 JBWC Youth Fellow Lindsay Cobb.
A conversation about writing, disability studies, and the politics of legibility with Youth Fellow Angelina Tang & project mentor Jessica Lowell Mason I want you, dear reader, to better understand those who perceive the world differently from you, and kindly be able to ask them, “So, what do you think?” - Angelina Tang “Is the way this narrative is constructed helping or harming those within the community being represented?” This is a question I think we, as writers, especially of fiction but within any genre, should be asking ourselves. - Jessica Lowell Mason
Presenting an excerpt of Autumn Flowers written by 2022 JBWC Youth Fellow Angelina Tang. Autumn Flowers is a story about being human. It is the journey of a girl who rises above her suffering and embraces herself, learning to accept her past and future; at the same time, it is an exploration of Chinese culture, flower language, and the effects of a schizophrenia diagnosis.
We are thrilled to announce the 2022 Just Buffalo Writing Center Youth Fellows, selected by novelist and final judge Gabriel Bump: Liam Cobb of Buffalo, NY and Angelina Tang of East Amherst, NY. Congratulations, Liam & Angelina!