Are you a writer?
Have you ever wanted to publish your work?
The Trees, RPMS’ own literary journal, will be seeking submissions in January of 2026.
What we are looking for
Fiction (short stories, novel excerpts, flash fiction, etc)
Creative Nonfiction (personal essays, hybrid essays, memoir excerpts, travel writing, opinion pieces, narrative nonfiction)
Poetry (anything from Haiku to prose poems)
Reviews (Seen any good performances lately? Read any great new books? Tell us about it!)
Information about submitting
Please include your name, classroom, and grade
Submissions are open from January 1 - March 12th, 2026.
Please do not submit more than 3 pieces of writing for consideration.
We will only take submitions from 2nd grade and up.
All submissions will be read and reviewed by The Trees editors and considered for publication in Issue #2 which we aim to put out by the end of the school year.
Not all work submitted will be accepted, so please send us your BEST writing!
Do not send any previusly published writing.
We will send acceptance notices by April 25th.
Feel free to email TheTrees@rpms.org with any questions. We can’t wait to read your writing!
Submitting your Writing
There are lots of methods to share your story for us to submit
The first way is to share your story on a google doc.
Instructions for sharing your Google doc with us
Another way is to email us your story
Forward to composing a new email to us
Another way is to fill out our google form, and paste your story into it.