Aporia publishes poetry, fiction, essays and more by school and college students around the world. Your words deserve to be read.
"I have learned to hold silenceRead Full Poem →
the way water holds the shape
of its last container — formless,
yet remembering everything."
"She inherited two things from her father: his compulsion to name everything, and the knowledge that every map is also an erasure. The village she grew up in existed on no government record. Her father had drawn it three times, each version a different argument with memory..."
"Before the city wakes, the rain rehearses / what the streets refuse to say aloud..."
"She spoke four languages and chose none of them to say what mattered most..."
"In the year they decided emotions needed licensing, she kept translating anyway..."
"My mother folds distance the way oceans fold coastlines — always taking something back..."
Aporia was built for the writer who hasn't been published yet, the one who writes in the margins of notebooks and saves drafts that feel too raw to share. We are your first reader. We are also, we hope, your first byline.
Aporia was born from a simple belief: that the best writing in the world is not yet in bookstores. It is in dormitories, in late-night notebooks, in the margins of textbooks. We are here to find it, read it, and put it where it belongs — published.
Our Story →Every submission is read by human editors. No algorithms. No shortcuts.
Submitting to Aporia will never cost you anything. That's a promise.
We celebrate where writing comes from — every campus, every city, every country.
English now. French, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin and more — coming soon.