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.

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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