Who are we?
The Literary Palette is a vibrant and diverse high school writing community where words of every genre flow from pens around the world, eagerly waiting to captivate and inspire you.
Our story starts in the summer of 2023, at Yale Young Writer’s 12th annual online workshop, which allowed us to connect over our passion for writing across states, countries, and oceans. Soon after, we began the process of creating a teen literary magazine that would allow us to show the world who we are—we’re teens, we’re writers, but ultimately, we’re people trying to make a difference in the world one word at a time.
Where Are We From?
We are a team of 20+ passionate writers, ranging from 5 different countries and 15 different states, based in the USA.
Our Yearbook
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Amelia C. '24
“I ♡ my purple rollerball pen.”
Book Rec: Haikyuu!!
Role: Organization Lead, Fiction (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Anushka Sharma '25
“I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones, In a faith forgotten land.” - Taylor Swift, “ivy”
Book Rec: No Longer Human
Role: Organization Lead, Social Media Lead, Poetry (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Beatriz Bohland '23
“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” - T.S. Elliot, “The Hollow Men”
Book Rec: The Lord of The Rings
Role: Organization Team, Editor, Co-Founder
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Brooke Davis
"I’ll love you when the oceans dry, I’ll love you when the rivers freeze” - Noah Kahan, “She Calls Me Back”
Book Rec: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Role: Poetry, Editor
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David Solano '25
“What good are wings without the courage to fly?” - Atticus Finch, TKAM
Book Rec: The Little Prince
Role: Organization Lead, Art & Web Design Lead, Layout Lead, Poetry (3), Editor, Cover Art, Co-Founder
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Eedha Kaul '25
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”- Erasmus
Book Rec: Alice in Wonderful
Role: Organization Lead, Fiction (3), Editor, Co-Founder
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Emma Smith '26
“You can’t edit a blank page.”
Book Rec: Black Boy
Role: Fiction (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Grace Loonan '24
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” - W. H. Auden
Book Rec: 1984
Role: Poetry (1), Fiction (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Haven Beckman '25
“If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke. ”
Book Rec: This is How You Lose the Time War
Role: Non-Fiction (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Jett Laiken
“Between thought and expression lies a lifetime” - Lou Reed
Book Rec: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Role: Poetry
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Joe Bakkar '24
“Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.” - Chef Auguste Gusteau
Book Rec: The Secret History
Role: Fiction (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Juliet Willems '24
“If it was not for sea-sickness the whole world would be sailors.” - Charles Darwin
Book Rec: Educated
Role: Organization Lead, Art Lead, Non-Fiction (1), Editor, Cover Art, Co-Founder
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Leah Koutal
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.” - Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Book Rec: Habitations by Sheila Sandar
Role: Fiction, Editor
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Lily Stone-Bourgeois '25
“words…” - Unknown
Book Rec: Almond
Role: Non-Fiction (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Madeline Ehrlich
“It takes courage to be kind.” - Maya Angelou
Book Rec: Flawed
Role: Fiction, Editor
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Myla Manu-Arkhurst '25
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.” - Oscar Wilde
Book Rec: Black Boy
Role: Organization Team, Co-Founder
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Riley Shell '24
“If you don’t belong to a place, perhaps we belong to each other? We who belong nowhere.” - Victoria Aveyard
Book Rec: The Darkest Minds
Role: Fiction (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Sophie Bostic '24
“If you can’t beat the odds, change the game.” - Leigh Bardugo
Book Rec: Six of Crows
Role: Organization Lead, Fiction (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Sophie Grayek '24
“You want to fly, you got to give up the sh-t that brings you down.” - Toni Morrison
Book Rec: Pachinko
Role: Fiction
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Taylor Onyi '25
“Originality is a practice, to accomplish it you must learn to fall in love with the process.”
Book Rec: Land of Stories
Role: Fiction (1), Co-Founder
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Teghan Kelley '24
“You’ve got to flaunt the weird, my friend.” - Alex Fierro, The Ship of the Dead
Book Rec: Eliza and Her Monsters
Role: Art Lead, Poetry (1), Editor, Co-Founder
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Zhouyuan Nie '25
“The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is. ”
Book Rec: The Great Gatsby
Role: Organization Team, Poetry (3), Editor, Co-Founder
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Zoe Zarubin '24
“Einstein said time was relative, right? Maybe I'm not late. Maybe you guys are early.” -Miles Morales, SM-ITSV
Book Rec: Mysterious Benedict S.
Role: Fiction (1), Web Design Lead, Editor, Organization Team, Co-Founder
Contributors:
Sophie Bostic, David Solano, Anushka Sharma, Juliet Willems, Amelia C., Teghan Kelley, Joe Bakkar, Riley Shell, Taylor Onyi, Emma Smith, Beatriz Figueiredo, Haven Beckman, Eedha Kaul, Zoe Zarubin, Grace Loonan, Zhuoyuan Nie, Lily Stone-Bourgeois, Myla Manu-Arkhurst, & Sophie Grayek
Policy:
We disclaim any responsibility or liability associated with any intellectual property infringement by any author, and that the author is solely responsible for ensuring that the works submitted are original works
that do not violate the intellectual property rights of any person or entity. By submitting a work, the party submitting the work agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Literary Palette Magazine and each member of its editorial board from and against any and all costs, expenses, liabilities, judgments, and settlements, including attorneys fees and costs solely in connection with a person or entity claiming that the work submitted infringes on the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity. The Literary Palette Magazine reserves the right at any time to withdraw any published work that it determines, in its sole discretion, may violate the intellectual property rights of any person or entity. We are committed to only publishing original works of authorship.
The Literary Palette Magazine appreciates that you are submitting your work for consideration for publication. We review all works and cannot guarantee that yours will be published, but we will notify you when a decision is made.