$1.99
A little something you didn’t even know you needed. A little spooky. A little strange. Wonderfully unexpected. Utterly delightful.
Risky Reads is a digital zine, delivered via email, that is a collection of original stories, poems, and creative experiments from the youth writers of Wildly Free Youth Squad. Step inside their imaginations, enjoy some delightfully eerie reading, and discover what happens when young voices are given room to create.
Every purchase is a gift. A collection of intriguing youth writing for you AND an opportunity to make a direct impact on the Wildly Free Youth Squad community.
All proceeds from Risky Reads go back into supporting Youth Squad, helping provide creative resources, special projects, and future opportunities for youth writers.
What happens when you give a group of youth writers an entire month to explore the strange, mysterious, eerie, and wonderfully weird?
You get Risky Reads, a publication imagined, written, and named by the youth writers of Wildly Free Youth Squad.
Inside these pages, you’ll encounter unexpected twists, unsettling moments, curious characters, and creative experiments that might make you laugh, shiver, or look over your shoulder.
Every story, poem, and piece began with a youth writer willing to follow an idea into the unknown. Throughout October, the writers of Wildly Free Youth Squad explored suspense, played with perspective, challenged their imaginations, and discovered just how much their words could do.
And now, they’re inviting you along for the ride.
A Little Reading. A Lot of Possibility.
For just $1.99, you’re treating yourself to a digital collection of wonderfully imaginative writing, delivered straight to your inbox. And you’re giving these youth writers something equally meaningful: the experience of seeing their original work published, shared, and valued by readers beyond their own community.
But the impact doesn’t stop with the final page.
All proceeds from Risky Reads go back into supporting Wildly Free Youth Squad, helping provide creative resources, collaborative projects, special experiences, and future opportunities for youth writers.
Their words have value. Their voices deserve to be heard. And together, we get to see what their creativity can make possible.
Thank you for reading, celebrating, and helping these youth writers find their wings.
The Author’s Pathway Writing Circle is not simply a writing program. It is a 1-2 year journey of choosing your story, your voice, and your work with intention.
Every author in the circle steps forward through three shared commitments. These commitments create the rhythm that carries each manuscript from idea to completion.
The Wildly Free 3K Commitment: A commitment to consistent progress
The goal is not urgency. The goal is steady forward movement.
You are not expected to write perfectly. You are expected to keep writing. This commitment transforms intention into pages.
The Community Commitment: A commitment to writing alongside others
The circle exists so that momentum does not disappear when the work becomes difficult. We move forward together.
The Story Commitment: A commitment to courage and authorship
Your manuscript is not only something you produce. It is something you become ready to live with, to carry, to embody.
At the end of this Author’s Pathway: Writing Circle, you will not only have written a manuscript. You will have lived inside the process of becoming an author.
