Harmony Ink Press is proud to present the winners of the fourth annual Young Author Challenge. This book contains the best of the best in short LGBTQ+ fiction by authors from age fourteen to twenty-one. They represent the future of both our literature and our community, and the future looks as bright as these voices are strong, inventive, and unique. These fifteen stories range from the realistic to the fantastical, and they are populated with characters from all across the rainbow. They explore love, friendship, being different, finding one’s purpose and place, and what it means to grow upâ€"in the modern world or one of pure imagination.Â
First, Second, Third by Elliot Joyce
From the Red Field by Frisk Gillespie
Bubblegum by Malcolm Shearrion
Honor Among Thieves by Giulia Maggio-Tremblay
Applesauce and Oatmeal by Claire Hekkala
It's the Journey by Mattye Johnson
Entrances and Exits by Olivia Anne Gennaro
Lovers in the Great Collapse by Amy Carothers
Ramen and Unrequited Crushes by K.A. Maldonado
Definition by Morgan Goolsby
I Know This Is Bad But I Have a Good Reason by Joey Scully
Hoodies and Glasses by Sengtdavanh Kinnavong
Mortuus Feles by Arbour Ames
The Fall by Kat Blake
The Dating Simulator by Lia Shepherd
