Get Ready for the 2022 National Awards Announcement!

Originally posted on Region-at-Large:
Thank you to everyone who joined us live on March 10 for the Regional Celebration. What a privilege and honor it was to celebrate this year’s Regional Award winners, as well as all of our Remote Programs participants. If you’d like to revisit the joyous occasion, you can find a recording…

Tedx Talk(ing) with Sidney Muntean

Originally posted on outlander zine:
Sidney Muntean is a senior in the Creative Writing Conservatory at Orange County High School of the Arts and a 2021 alumna of the Summer Workshop at the Kelly Writers House. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Junebug Journal. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art…

Propelling Forward

At first, I didn’t see the patterns in life. I thought everything was finite, a one-shot-only type of deal. I never let things go in fear that they would end. I found it easier to keep my fists clenched than to open them to emptiness.

Growing Pains

I do not feel like seventeen. Seventeen means standing on the threshold of adulthood, but I am far from grown. I still curl into myself when I sleep and

Valentine’s Day Then and Now

About a year ago, I spent Valentine’s Day with my friends. At my high school, there’s this street in Santa Ana that’s completely closed off to the public during school hours. It’s available only to OCSA students. There are often student DJs playing music, face painting, food vendors, games, and other activities that invite all