NEHS for Secondary Schools

Who is a character from literature you think about long after you've finished the book?

What if the key to unlocking your creativity was less outlining and more playing — are you ready to jump in?

Jump Into the Ball Pit: Emily Rapp Black on the Creative Power of Play This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. One summer in Brooklyn I made an outline for my first book. I was told I must do this, or my ideas would be unorganized, m…

If your life had a literary genre, what would it be right now?

Which book from this week's best-reviewed list is going straight to the top of your TBR?

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month Featuring Elizabeth Strout, Herta Müller, Douglas Stuart, Siri Hustvedt, and more

What if a poetry collection needed an audience to fully exist — would you show up?

Language Play(s): Ensemble, Chorus, and the Redistributed Lyric When Parag invited me to the American Poetry Museum in Washington D.C. to read, he had imagined a site-specific activation of The Daughter Industry (Nightboat Books, 2026) rather than a traditional…

What's a book you were forced to read that you ended up secretly loving?

Madeline Keohane
Morgan Road Middle School

“Hildie was in shock and had to lie down after reading the ending of her new favorite book, Five Feet Apart, by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, and Tobias Iaconis.”

From a forthcoming q***r Palestinian anthology — can a single poem hold an entire world inside it?

“Parallel Lives,” a Poem by Eman Abdelhadi On one screen, bulbous bones push to escape skin translucent like the situation. There is no formula. I blink my eyes over those little ashen faces. Always, always those little ashen faces. Helples…

NEHS is proud to begin its Pride Month festivities by recognizing the winners of the 2026 Lambda Ampersand Award for LGBTQIA+ Writing.

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Do you think AI can ever write something that genuinely moves you — or is that strictly human territory?