read our issues

published biannually and curated for the curious, open mind.
find passionate research on social & economic policy, and also find prose, poetry, and heartfelt expressions of the humanity behind these paper-ink solutions. all screamed, spoken, and whispered to you by youth voices begging to be heard.

submissions info

the youth literary policy magazine is accepting submissions now through may 2025.
issues are published biannually.

general guidelines:

– author must be aged 13-21 at the time of submission
– each author is limited to two submissions per publishing period
– research submissions have a word limit of 3000 words, creative writing has 1000 words
– creative writing must be either prose or poetry
– all submissions should be in either word doc or PDF format
– all submissions should not have a file size exceeding 100 MB
– submissions will be ran through an AI detector

research guidelines:

research can either be:
– an opinion piece on any policy backed with research
– a feature article that aims to educate readers on a issue/policy
research must include:
– title
– introduction
– citations and references should be in either MLA or APA format
we do not yet accept formal research papers in the spring 2025 issue*