Merlyn's Pen

Since 1985, Merlyn's Pen has brought students and teachers in 20 countries model works by teen writers. Explore the New Library of Young Adult Writing. New works each season.

Search the NEW LIBRARY for top works by writers under 20. See which novelists winning major awards today were published by Merlyns Pen when they were teens.

"My dad began to talk to me about receiving my Indian name. . . . " Read I am Kwakkoli, in the New Library, about taking a name that would connect a boy to generations of his ancestors.

"Memory can play cruel tricks on the mind. . . . " In the New Library, read The Glue Jar, a personal narrative about one event that changed everything.

"What we did there will stay with me forever. . . . " Read Lake Makwa in the New Library, a memoir about a teen's trust in himself and his band of explorers.

HUMOR WRITING CONTEST

"Make Us Laugh!" contest seeks fiction and essays about identity and coming-of-age. Deadline December 15.

Textbook, YA, and EFL Editors

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SAILING ADVENTURE FOR WRITERS RETURNS IN 2010

Join 25 teen writers on a tall ship in the waters between Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. Popular program returns in June 2010. A literary sailing adventure!

READ FAVORITES FROM THE NEW LIBRARY

Classroom favorites from the New Library of Young Adult Writing.

MAKE US LAUGH: CONTEST INSPIRATION

WRITING ABOUT IDENTITY & COMING OF AGE