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Merlyn's Pen (est. 1985) and the New Library of Young Adult Writing connect teens, teachers, writers, and readers to uncommon works by teen writers. New works each season.
Submit Your WritingSearch 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.


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"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.

Whats New
First prize is a one-week literary sailing adventure this July with 25 teen writers aboard the tall ship Shenandoah!
Sail and write this July with 25 other teens on a tall ship in the waters near Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard . . .

New solo performance by Merlyn's founder recalls growing up long-haired, short-winded, one-eyed, two-fisted . . .


Writing a textbook? Developing an ESL/EFL reader? Building short story or poetry anthologies? See . . .
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