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Featured Posts

Growing Up American When You're Yellow by a.m. sevin

In the middle of a blistering June, I sat sandwiched on a bench with forty other mostly white American middle and high schoolers in the belly of the largest enclosed tropical botanical garden in southern China. ​

Universal Immigration by Paolo Bicchieri

Stranded.
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That’s how many families feel while journeying across the blistering hot and terrifyingly cold Jacumba Desert.​

The Moment of Leaving by Maame Blue

Don’t all the best stories start this way: at the beginning of the end. Just after things get difficult. This story is about leaving therapy, about being the therapist and walking out. It is about stepping away from a belief system you had given your life to for ten years. 

Call for Submissions

Want to write for Watermelanin?
Need an excuse to actually edit those shots from your photoshoot?
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Watermelanin is looking for submissions of artwork and literature.
Your work can live one of two places: the online journal that posts content year round or the annual digital magazine.

Check out the guidelines and send us your work!