"The 16th book in the Re-Draft series sponsored by the School for Young Writers." Subtitle on cover: Winning writing by New Zealand teenagers.
Contents:
And to think / Aria Oliver -- Time out / Samantha Jory-Smart -- Home truths / Caroline Shepherd -- A resting place / Harriet Sanders -- The caretaker / Joanne Lee -- Freedom Farm / Summer Campbell -- Germination / Tierney Reardon -- White Sunday / Vaiola Vai -- A smile / MecheĢ Phillips -- Summer / Isabella Hadlow -- The friend-store catalogue / Nain Alfante -- Twelve perspectives on love / Simon Brown -- He waited for her / Emily Wakelin -- Socially inept / Charlotte Boyle -- Never have I ever / Celine Kao -- Schizo-phobic tension / Isla Thomas -- Chasing chemicals / Alice Park -- (untitled) / Courtney Speedy -- Pylon roulette / Finlay Langelaan -- Posing questions / Olivia Maxwell -- Candles and a lesson in boredom / Cian Sutherland -- Our the Lady-Madame Hearthom / Reuben Love -- The man who dances with sharks / Adelaide Perry -- Impropriety is the soul of wit / Melanie van Bysterveldt -- Night wishes / Ella Somers -- I'll see you tomorrow / Shinae Lawrence -- Dear Kookaburra / Tayla Paauwe -- Duly noted / anonymous -- Photograph / Sylvia Orr -- Bread man / Ella Somers -- Time / Hollie Cohen -- Death's diary / Isabella Anderson -- Under the same stars / Lydia Whyte -- For Allah. For God / Jessica Alsemgeest -- Somme / Simon Brown -- Embers / Cameron Johnson -- Deadly acquiescence / Lydia Whyte -- The dying republic / Alex Thomson -- The best view / Miru Shimaoka -- Cleopatra interview / Azriel Taylor -- Paper lantern / Luke Nie -- Stockholm syndrome / Celine Kao -- Natural sweetener / Leah Dodd -- The dog upstairs / Summer Gordon -- Cap mad / Monique Thorp -- Politicians like to chew gum / Elizabeth Steel -- A red toothbrush / Alice Park -- It's nothing. Really / Bella Bastida -- A future in grief / Eleanor Loader -- Neighbourly / Esther Hiscock -- Black and white / Ellie Tsamandakis -- My own special sun / Victoria Ivashkova -- Halva / Amit Noy -- My father grows tomatoes / Ana Menzies -- Going up / Freddie Gormack-Smith -- The art of aging / Aria Oliver -- The known way / Rebecca Kingswell -- Chaos theory / Tierney Reardon -- The sisters who were a poem / Lara Watson -- Grandpa / Miru Shimaoka -- An ode to hands / Tom Collins -- The woman / William Robinson -- Fossa / Catherine Cadzow -- Pinned / Duncan Matchett -- Blondie and Little Boy Peep / Adelaide Perry -- Out / Marika Gray -- Streets / Leah Dodd -- Black market / Simon Brown -- Blueception / Abby Buckthought -- Another lover / Maddison Hull -- Textiles / Elizabeth Steel -- What eels say when you listen / Duncan Matchett -- Ode to imagination / James de Groot -- Life is funny that way / Celia Allen -- God complex / Charlotte Boyle -- The unfortunate adventure of Regina Valentine / Rose Brandl -- The car seat princess / Kate Twomey -- Three kinds of gold / Tierney Reardon -- I am what you made me / Niamh Campbell-Ward -- Purple banker stealing / Sarah Eastwood -- Night dweller / Isobel Caffery -- The light came dashing up / Elliott Hughes -- Inksomnia / Mekijah Pullan -- Fishing for sundancers / Finlay Langelaan -- Beyond the canvas / Simone Miller -- Glimpse of lucidity / Isla Thomas -- It's an art / Micaela Meder -- Paper giants / Monique Thorp -- Frida / Isabel Li -- Theorem / Duncan Matchett -- With apologies to Mr Blake / Celia Allen -- Observations on a scientist / Jake Parsons -- The moment-weaver / Samantha Jory-Smart -- Wearing glasses / Victoria Ivashkova -- How to get rid of a unicorn / Pieta Bell -- Goodnight me / Lara Watson -- Aspie / Rebecca Kingswell -- Role models for a teenage girl / Leah Dodd -- Just gone 16 / Josie Berliner -- A series of incomplete sentences / Caroline Shepherd -- Dear two-minute noodles / Jake Parsons -- Twenty snapshots of a twenty-something / Olivia Maxwell -- The lights are extinguished / Reuben Love.
Summary:
74 talented young New Zealanders bring us the very best of the poems, stories, dramas, and flash fictions they've found upstairs.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.