Crashtest Magazine

Crashtest is a biannual online literary magazine that accepts submissions from high school students all around the world. Submissions are OPEN.

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Volume 10, Issue 2 of Crashtest is OUT NOW! Experience 13 new pieces of creative writing from South Korea, the US, China, and India, all accompanied by unique art; a portfolio by teen artist Seoyoon Lee; and a poem by Geffrey Davis. READ NOW FOR FREE https://t.co/kERuwPVfCa

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#WordOfTheWeek: Floccinaucinihilipilification
(FLOX•in•oh•SIN•ee•HILLY•pilly•fi•KAY•shun) (say that five times fast!)- The act of estimating something as unimportant or worthless. This is the longest non-technical word in the English language.

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#PoemOfTheWeek: “Spring” by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

“The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.”

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Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is ACERBIC: sharply or bitingly critical, sarcastic, or ironic in temper, mood, or tone

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Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is OBSEQUIOUS, meaning “marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness.” In fiction (and in life), obsequious brings to mind those characters that fall over themselves in authority. Can you think of examples?

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Today’s #PoemofTheWeek: "Rat Ode, performed by Elizabeth Acevedo. https://t.co/StOFE4WNo8

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(2/) ...our adult authorship this issue. Thank you to all of our editors, assitant editors, and readers. And a most special thank you to Luisa Peñaflor, our Managing Editor and Design Editor (she’s why this issue looks so pretty!) and Sarah Blackman, our Editor. We love you all!

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Volume 10, Issue 2 of Crashtest is OUT NOW! Experience 13 new pieces of creative writing from South Korea, the US, China, and India, all accompanied by unique art; a portfolio by teen artist Seoyoon Lee; and a poem by Geffrey Davis. READ NOW FOR FREE https://t.co/kERuwPVfCa

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Thank you to everyone who submitted to Crashtest this season, and a special thank you to those whose work is featured. Thank you Seoyoon Lee, for providing such excellent photography for our artist’s portfolio this year. Thank you @GeffreyDavis , for providing us with...(1/)

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Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is INIMICAL, meaning “unfriendly, hostile.” Can you name some inimical characters?

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The new dawn blooms as we free it / For there is always light, / if only we're brave enough to see it / If only we're brave enough to be it.” Today’s #PoemOfTheWeek: “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman. https://t.co/3Hyx6uJPqT

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the submission box is lookin sad 😞 if you’re a young writer, consider sending work to the telescope podcast! requirements:
- be 15-25 years old
- email a complete fiction story, 100-4000 words
- be ready (and excited!) to read and discuss your work on a chill podcast 💖

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Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is OBSEQUIOUS, meaning “marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness.” In fiction, obsequious brings to mind those characters that fall over themselves in authority. Can you think of examples?

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"Humans, too,
give off a visible light—science proves this.
But I’m surprised we don’t walk around on fire,
what, with the collective lint of our past.
Are we always excavating?"
#PoemOfTheWeek: "This too shall pass” by Kirsten Shu-Ying Chen, @Heron_Tree. https://t.co/EerWmAwTXF

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Today’s #WonderfulWordWednesday is INVETERATE, meaning “firmly- and long-established.” For example, elves and orcs are inveterate in the fantasy genre thanks in large part to “The Lord of the Rings” and other such famous fantasy. Can you think of other inveterate tropes?

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Last week we had our biannual meeting to decide what we’ll be publishing in the Fall issue! Now onto editing...

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It’s #WonderfulWordWednesday, for which we have DILATORY, meaning “tending or intended to cause delay.” For example, when I’m trying to do work but my dog is being particularly adorable in the hopes of pats, she may not be intentionally dilatory, but that sure is the effect!

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“I looked into his eyes [...]
the irises backed and packed
with tarnished tinfoil
seen through the lenses
of old scratched isinglass.
They shifted a little [...]
like the tipping
of an object toward the light.”
#PoemOfTheWeek https://t.co/R80wA0l6Nl

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With limited access to physical books due to the pandemic, artists @katiegarth and @TracyHonn were inspired to create @QuarPubLibrary, a growing collection of one-sheet artists’ books that can be printed and assembled at home: https://t.co/FkySI8DdCm

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“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.”
Today’s #PoemOfTheWeek is “Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. https://t.co/EQyeMkUTTE