BLANK
IS
YOURS
This magazine aims to provide an accessible space for young people to create, connect, and reclaim our narratives. A platform to express ourselves through any medium, addressing issues that shape and impact us all individually.
Here, we rewrite, reclaim, and redefine our stories on our own terms.
Above all. This Is Yours.
Zine 01: ThisCityIsYours
CALLING ALL WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND CREATIVES: We’re looking for work that speaks to what it feels like to live, grow, and navigate this city right now. Whether that’s housing and affordability, education, mental health, identity, community, activism, or the ways systems shape our everyday lives.
We want to see your work, both personal reflections and critical perspectives that question, challenge, or reimagine the city we live in.
submission prompt 1
"That's Just How It Is"
Sometimes the most powerful forces shaping our lives are the ones we accept without question. “That’s just how it is” becomes a justification for inequality, silence, and systems that persist simply because they’ve always existed. This prompt invites you to challenge that mindset. What have we normalized that should be questioned? What truths go unspoken because they’re too deeply ingrained? Through any medium, explore the tension between acceptance and resistance. Examine the cost of complacency, the weight of tradition, and the moment when we begin to see that things don’t have to stay the way they are.
submission prompt 2
05/08/2026
submission prompt 3 05/15/2026
Our Story:
In late 2024, two students were barred from writing about the overturning of Roe v. Wade in their school publication after it was deemed too sensitive a topic. Recognizing the gap in opportunities for students to meaningfully engage with authentic, real-world issues in school publications, BlankIsYours was created as a platform where youth can openly explore complex ideas, challenge norms, and express their voices freely without the constraints of school publication policies.
BlankIsYours is a student-led multimedia magazine dedicated to amplifying youth voices and perspectives through diverse forms of creative expression. Featuring poetry, short stories, reviews, and nonfiction, our publication explores the ideas, experiences, and issues shaping young people today.