MISSION
Sugar Rascals is an online, bi-annual, teen literary magazine established March 2016.
We want our readers to witness the work of blossoming, talented teenagers. We want our contributors to expose their voices to the world, and to grow above all else. We want to explore parts of ourselves that we are ashamed or afraid of. We want our imaginations and experiences of day-to-day life to change us for the better. We want you to be true to yourself, and perhaps more importantly, accept yourself for the unique, courageous being you are.
The power of words and art does unfathomable things to the human spirit. Show us. Make us feel like we've never before. Give us discovery. Give us your raw, your delicate. Midnight howlings. Heart spilled on to a page. Fistfuls of salt, sugar. Who you are when nobody's looking. Vulnerable, with nothing to hide.
Draw blood. Hold your breath. Take a chance. Submit.
Editor-in-Chief, Poetry Editor
Farah Ghafoor is editor-in-chief at Sugar Rascals and has had poems published in Ninth Letter, alien mouth, and Big Lucks among other places. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets, and has recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Hollins University, the Keats-Shelly Memorial Association, the League of Canadian Poets, and Columbia College Chicago. She believes that she deserves a cat. Find her on Tumblr and @farah_ghafoor.
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Prose Editor
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Angelie Gison is a 16 year old Filipina with an unflappable interest in cryptids and the secrets lurking in the local dark suburbia. Aside from reading, her other interests include: making art, watching life-changing movies and listening to dark, gritty, and atmospheric music. Catch her tweeting @ghostkingdoms or visit her blog at yearoftheghost.wordpress.com.
Book Reviewer
Almas Khan is a fifteen-year-old artist, aspiring author, and avid consumer of dark chocolates. She lives in a small Canadian city where she spends most of her time with her nose in a book, battles the patriarchy, longs for a kitten, and does schoolwork. Find her on Tumblr and @itsalmaskhan.
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Ethan Paulk is a high school student from North Carolina. His is a Silver Key winner in the 2016 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and his work has appeared in The Writers Slate, Sugar Rascals, Saplings, PGR magazine and Druidawn, Volume IV. When not writing he is pursuing his other passions which include guitar, theater, Model United Nations and snuggling with his dog, although not necessarily in that order.
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Sweet Talk Interviewer
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Jodie Michelle is a 16 year old poet with a very big (and very soft) heart. Her work has appeared in White Teeth Mag and Moonsick Magazine, and she serves as a prose reader for Venus Mag. When she's not taking long and badly-scheduled naps or writing, you can find her drinking green tea or gazing lovingly at the moon.
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Blog Editor
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Emma Camp is a high school junior from Birmingham, Alabama whose work has been featured in Canvas, Blue Marble Review, The Interlochen Review, Sugar Rascals, Girlspring, and is forthcoming in Cicada, and PolyphonyHs. Her work has also been awarded two gold medals in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In her small amount of free time, Emma can be found performing Shakespeare and making gratuitous Hamlet puns.
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Blog Contributors
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Rona Wang is eighteen years old and a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has won five national medals from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Her writing can be found in The Best Teen Writing of 2016 and 2014, The Sierra Nevada Review and The Adroit Journal.
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Stephanie Tom is a high school student who lives in New York. She's an editor for her school newspaper, and an assistant editor for her school literary magazine. She has previously won a Gold Key
from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for her poetry, and her work has appeared
or is forthcoming in Dear Damsels, Hypertrophic Literary and elsewhere.
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Alexandra A. Reinecke is a writer and journalist who uses writing as a tool to
encourage empathy and affect positive change.
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Anushka Bidani is currently a 15 year old student, with further plans to pursue
Humanities. She has been an attendee of the Delhi Slam Camp- Summer 2016 and
the Delhi Poetry Slam Retreat (Jaipur, 2016). Her work has been published on the Writer’s Asylum, among others. When not writing, she can be found binge watching anything ranging from How I Met Your Mother to Da Vinci’s Demons. Among poetry, prose, films, paintings, or anything artistic, is where she is the happiest.
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Lillie Busch is a 19-year -old English sophomore student whose poetry has been previously published in Persephone's Daughters and three short stories have been accepted into Germ. Back in 2015, her short story was rewarded an Honourable Mention in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She also plans to launch a body-positive literary magazine in the near future.
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Tony Hackett is an undergraduate at Stanford University studying Anthropology and Political Science. He is a poet, Frisbee-thrower, Succulent-Enthusiast, and proud owner of a Tamagotchi. When he is not found beside a dog-eared stack of magical realism novels, he might be found tending to his vegetable garden, absorbing the world and all of its beautiful imbrications, or (rarely) sleeping. He can be found on Twitter and Tumblr.
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Art Contributor
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Rachael Chen is a sleep-deprived teen with thoughts that wander off the edge of the world. In between breaks from painting and drawing, she likes to play her guitar and read. Her work can be found at http://augustine-rc.deviantart.com/
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Social Media Manager
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Rojina Pradhan is a nineteen-year-old passionate scribophile, freelance writer and blogger. Her poem is published in the online site of Teen Ink. She manages her blog where she expresses her love for literary stuffs. She likes reading novels and reading online journals and literary blogs. She recently joined the team of Sugar Rascals as Social Media Manager. She plans on crafting her writing skills and likes connecting with diverse people. Find her on Twitter and Tumblr here.
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