Amplifying brave,
young voices worldwide

"29 year-old Turkish journalist Furkan Karabay was released a month ago, after 201 days in solitary confinement with trumped charges related to his journalistic work. He was rearrested last week and placed under house arrest. He responded with a new short story."

"When I became a mother, I did not imagine seeing my child's smile would open portal-like, into a nonstop reel of rushed obituaries to young children in Gaza, or horrifying clips of teenagers in their Levi’s being marched out of their high schools or homes, tackled to the ground in the streets of USA by masked agents."

"We do need one another - even when we disagree. We have to acknowledge our sameness... Because in just a few weeks' time, it's as if global tectonic plates shifted under our feet and we've gone past a point of no return."

"Palestinian-Ukrainian peace activist and author Zoya Miari shares her experience attending the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 and how it reminded her of the impact we can have on the world around us."

"Following up on our Spotlight of Americas, we asked our Regional Editor, Brooklyn-based Venezuelan writer Carlos Egaña for his reading recommendations with brief reasons why."

"Every writer has three minefields waiting for them. Our duty, is to survive them. Everything else is choice, and it comes later. If I could reach out to that young me – lost, alone, and angry, I would say, breathe."

"On the morning of August 5, 2024, I woke to a silence that felt ominous. For weeks, Dhaka—the sprawling, restless capital of Bangladesh, home to more than 20 million people—had been alive with defiance. Students filled the streets chanting against the government, their voices punctuated by the crack of flash grenades and the sting of live rounds fired into crowds."