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March/May 2020

Issue 5

This issue spans two academic quarters due to Covid-19.
FICTION
Heavy
Sol de Ugarte
You don’t expect it, but when you walk into the house, the grief is tangible.
FICTION
Sea Witch
Kenna Klop-Packel
Salt cakes the edges of her mouth and hugs her skin, drying and pinching it, abrasive grains kneading into old scars and new wounds.
POETRY
Scribbles in the Margins
Sonja Wooley
I light a candle because I want
To take back my time.

FICTION
Constellations
Claudia Johnson
“And . . . done,” Addison said, putting down the brush. "What do you think?"
FICTION
Persephone
Zora Laddish
She came as she always did, alone and barefoot to the edge of the chasm, so close that one would crave to shout look out!
FICTION
Last Meal
Auden Svoboda
Claus pulled the hood of his black cloak further over his face to shield himself from the unrelenting sun.
FICTION
Resister,
Part One

Zoe Mitchell
I walk a few steps behind you, a resistor clenched in my sweaty palm.
FICTION
A Fair Trade
Daisy
Paris-Kaufman

The Earth is different here.
FICTION
Shooting Stars
Mia Skoble
I can’t believe my friends talked me into coming here, then didn’t even show up.
FICTION
The Cook's Room,
Part Two
Julia Weinberg
A scream filled the air.

2020 Emerging Writers

Each year, Redwood invites eighth graders at Berkeley public middle schools
to submit pieces for publication in our May issue.
Emerging Writers are guided through the revision process by experienced Redwood writers.

Emerging Writer
POETRY
The Ones
Who Pay
Lucia
Segovia Merlos

As the moon fades into the sunlight
The stars dissolve into the first hints of blue sky

Emerging Writer
POETRY
Fighting for You
Luka Henrie-Naffaa
Dear Baby Polar Bear . . .
Emerging Writer
POETRY
I Must
Gwendolin
Weber-Stover

i hesitate
to loosen my grip
on the comforts
of the present

December 2019

Issue 4

INTERVIEW
Interview with Principal Erin Schweng
Julia Weinberg
"I have loved books for as long as I can remember."
FICTION
Witchbane
Zora Laddish
"You should give me proof that I'm a witch."
POETRY
Bliss
Daisy
Paris-Kaufman

"Ignorance is Bliss"
That's what they always told me
Whenever I asked questions

FICTION
Brimstone
Kenna Klop-Packel
A rustling sound shook the air as leather was pulled up over heels and shoulders . . .
POETRY
What Should I Remember?
Sonja Wooley
How about an imaginary boat,
Rudderless and swaying,
Cradled in a velvet
Whispering sea?

FICTION
Bloom
Claudia Johnson
Daffodil scowled and scrubbed harder at the glass.
FICTION
We Have a Basement?
Sol de Ugarte
Ahead of me, I hear a scream from the haunted house.

October 2019

Issue 3

PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Self-Portrait
Sonja Wooley
She wrote before she knew the alphabet.
POETRY
July Ninth
Julia Weinberg
She admits it:
she’s awake.

FICTION
The Colorful Woman
Daisy
Paris-Kaufman

I don't remember everything from that night.
FICTION
Release
Claudia Johnson
Honestly, who knocks on a door for two minutes straight?
FICTION
The Desert Stretched
Zora Laddish
The desert stretched. It must have stretched. The man had only a few miles to walk to get from one camp to the next, but he'd been traveling for three days.
POETRY
Glass Bottle
Rylyn Jaggar
I wrote you a message
I poured out my heart

POETRY
The State of Us
Sol de Ugarte
We live in the U.S.
Where gun rights
Are favored
Over education, the lives of your children

FICTION
Rad
Kenna Klop-Packel
She sleeps.
Her body twists through consciousness, overlapping and underlapping with bliss, sublime happiness.


2019-20 Academic Year

Editor-in-Chief:
         Julia Weinberg

Editor:
         Sonja Wooley

Emerging Writers Mentors:
         Zora Laddish
         Daisy Paris-Kaufman
         Julia Weinberg
         Sonja Wooley

Writers:
         Sol de Ugarte
         Rylyn Jaggar
         Claudia Johnson
         Kenna Klop-Packel
         Zora Laddish
         Zoe Mitchell
         Daisy Paris-Kaufman
         Mia Skoble
         Auden Svoboda
         Julia Weinberg
         Sonja Wooley

Emerging Writers:
         Luka Henrie-Naffaa
         Lucia Segovia Merlos
         Gwendolin Weber-Stover

Faculty Sponsor:
         Sean Stevens

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