Welcome to elementia, a magazine edited and designed by teenagers in the Kansas City metro area and published by Johnson County Library. We accept submissions from around the world in addition to local writers and artists. elementia takes on a new theme each year; this year’s submissions were inspired by Legacy.
In a whirlwind of letters and lines, we collected stories that reverberated across place and time and converged into a mosaic of inheritance. By examining pieces that explored and redefined the echoes that people leave behind and how they resonate into the future, we were able to appreciate how different writers interpreted the theme of Legacy. Our published writers and artists expressed their vulnerability by sharing deeply personal works of culture, institutions, family, change and more. We hope you find something you relate to, as well as something that helps you understand your own legacy in a new perspective.
The elementia editors and designers are immensely grateful to the writers and artists whose work brings courage and talent to these pages. This magazine is our love letter to our community, the legacies we hope to leave behind and the ones we have observed.
Teens, elementia now invites you to submit your original pieces of writing and art that explore the theme of Entropy at jocolibrary.org/elementia. The universe tends towards disorder. Do you bend into the chaos, or do you break through it? Where do you fall in a world of neverending change? How will you make sense of the senseless? Share your experiences and bring your entropy to us.