Mission

Our mission is to elevate our youth’s voices onto the page in order to further Writopia Lab’s mission of fostering joy, literacy, and critical thinking in all young people through effective, passion-driven writing.

Newspapers

• The Writopia Lab Quarterly News publishes four issues per year. Participants around the world join our workshops to brainstorm topics and receive high-level guidance from published journalists in developing feature stories, opinion pieces, profiles, news coverage, crossword puzzles, and comics. Writopia Lab reporters conduct interviews and research in order to learn and share their knowledge with the public in engaging, effective ways.
• The Yearly WriCampian is a newspaper written by WriCampians every year, detailing their experiences and showcasing their pieces from our annual sleepaway camp.

Our Publications

Highlighted Publications

• Connecting Across Cultures: A Collection of Writing by Ten Jewish and Muslim American Teens
• "Loved Your Essay!" - The Admissions Team: The Most Fiercely Individualistic College Essays

Written by Young and Teen Writers

• We Can Still Connect: Reflections on Life During the Time of COVID-19
  • Volume I
  • Volume II
• Love Letters: To The Mothers and Fathers of the African Diaspora
• Hello From Here: A Celebration of Asian American Identity
• LGBTQ+ Kids & Teens at Home Together: A Collection of Poems, Stories, & Essays
• Twilight Time: Poems About Dreams and Fantasies

Story Writing Contest Anthologies

• Frightopia: The Most Spooky and Surprising Stories by Young Writers of 2023
• Frightopia: The Most Spooky and Surprising Stories by Young Writers of 2024
• A Wish Upon a Snowflake: Winning Stories of Writopia Lab’s 2023 Winter Story Contest

WriCampia Anthologies

• WriCampia Horror Anthology (2019 )
• WriCampia Mystery Anthology (2019)
• Retellings and Reimaginings (2021)
• Rituals and Traditions (2022)
• Wonders of the Wild (2023)
• Time Hop (2024)

Partnership Anthologies

• Into the Future: The 2019-20 Homes for the Homeless Anthology
• Food, Memories, and Recipes from the Heart: An ICHS Cookbook
• Memories in Every Bite: A High School Kingsbridge International Cookbook
• Rueda y Rueda: the 2022 HFH Anthology
• Delicious Memories: Memoirs and Recipes by the Students of Claremont International High School
• The Dreams of Immigrants: By NOP Class of 2024, International Community High School
• Mi Llegada A Los Estados Unidos / My Arrival in the United States: Written by the 2023-2024 International Community High School Bridges

Written by Writopia Lab Instructors and Staff

• Pressure: A Writopia Lab Flash Fiction Anthology
• Finding Writopia (forthcoming)

Online Lit Mags

The (Parenthetical)

The (Parenthetical) is an online magazine dedicated to showcasing our workshoppers pieces, exclusively for ages 6-12.

The Ellipsis...

The Ellipsis... is an online magazine that features works written by our teen workshoppers.

Teen-Imagined and -Run Magazines

Diatom Journal

A national magazine of original writing, visual arts, and music, Diatom Journal is curated coast to coast by Writopia Lab teens.

Teen-Run Anthologies

Turning the Page

Turning the Page is a teen-led social justice committee that is part of the year-long Creative Portfolio Program. Each year, this leadership committee will pick a social justice issue or theme to focus on, and call attention to, through an anthology of poetry and prose centered around that theme. 

• Turning the Page (2020)
• We the Mosaic (2021)
• We, the Future (2022)
• We, the Free (2023)
• We, the Treasured (2024)