Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine is an online platform dedicated to using writing as catharsis, breaking the barrier around mental health, and providing an open platform for middle school to college age writers to express themselves.

Founded in 2020, our project started off with three goals: 1) to foster and destigmatize conversations about mental health and identity, 2) to encourage finding mindfulness through writing, and 3) to create an open platform for young people to publish writing without the barriers of submission fees and long response times, as a young writers' stepping stone to larger publications. 

With the pandemic, political and economic turmoil, police brutality, and other large-scale issues arising, mental health conditions have become especially prevalent. 

We hope to use writing as a tool to heal and make sense of the complicated situations we've found ourselves in.


Finding magazines that accept work from writers under eighteen can be challenging. These publications explicitly welcome submissions from young writers.

Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine

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