The word is out : a collection of writing by New Zealand teenagers / selected by Tessa Duder & James Norcliffe ; edited by Glyn Strange.

"The 14th book in the Re-Draft series sponsored by the School for Young Writers and published by Clerestory Press, Christchurch".

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Kyran Tranter -- The cusp of an idea / Emily McCarthy -- Currency of words / Josie Berliner -- Last words / Celine Kao -- Insight / Libby Steel -- Blind tasting / Samantha Jory-Smart -- How America ruined high school / Cecily Danaher -- To Sir Peter Jackson / Nain Alfante -- Educational reform / Freddie Gormack-Smith -- The handkerchief / Catherine Marshall -- Catharsis / Micaela Meder -- Spelling / Josie Berliner -- girl @ bus stop / Libby steel -- Screenagers / Charlotte Williams -- The Facebook man / Karli Seager -- The really long rhyming poem / Alex Lister -- The closet was never there / Eleanor Pepper -- Detailing / Pratibha Singh -- Fool / Erin Hutchinson -- Kiwiana / Polly Hoskins -- Child of the universe / Leah Dodd -- The train track / Olivia Reynolds -- Chance encounters / Haeata Watson -- Absence / Phoebe Rolfe -- Counter perspectives / Charlotte Williams -- Dictionaries aren't always right / Laura Hetherington -- Girl garden / Tricia Nieuwoudt -- Rain / Erin Hutchinson -- Love me like your home town / Ruby Solly -- Body buoyant / Charlotte Steel -- Physical poetry / Courtney Speedy -- The countries between beaches / Leah Dodd -- Otherwordly / Celine Kao -- Lament of the sea / Tierney Reardon -- The only flower left in the grass / Leah Dodd -- What Katie was / Sophie Coomber -- Imperfections / Simon Brown -- Greenadier / Anna-Marie Barrett -- I should probably buy some lip balm / Grace Cook -- An inventory of oaths / Lara Watson -- Finding the right words to say to you / Libby Steel -- Still / Kaiya Waerea -- Death in life / Cameron Yovich -- In the heart of Tennyson's Café / Ava Straw -- Art and about / Freddie Gormack-Smith -- The chrysalisof a crystal cello / Eleanor Pepper -- Necropolis of the mind / Jake Parsons -- Winter's glare / Bridget White -- Death, chess and a skull / Nathaniel Brown -- The ballistics report / Elliot Hughes -- A trapeze of jaws and claws / Kaitlyn Burke -- The runaways / Tricia Nieuwoudt -- The war on Christmas / Joe Cornes -- A Christmas survey / Tierney Reardon -- Deities and noodles / Harold Coutts -- The refreshing taste of life / Wilson Cowie -- Scribes are useless / Amber Kelso -- Circus / Phoebe Rolfe -- A jar of time / Olivia Maxwell -- Letter on a paper plane / Madison Hamill -- The posmaster / Olivia Maxwell -- Puzzle / Frances Barnett -- Battle scars / Isabel English -- Manuka Age / Charlotte Steel -- Away / Nicole Kleven -- Bretagne / Eleanor Loader -- The colour of the sky / Harriet Sanders -- The triumph of Wisteria / Madison Hamill -- Just a moment's thought / Lydia Whyte -- I want out / Tennille Nisbet -- Surgeon / Duncan Matchett -- A monopoly on life / Lydia Whyte -- Cool kid / Anna-Marie Barrett -- Just a slice / Laura Hetherington -- The olives / Cirque Gammelin -- Mirrors / Gemma McLeod -- John's Bull - the centenary / Jaclyn Chetty -- At the end of the day / Tierney Reardon -- Ilam road / Adelaide Perry -- China / Sophie Coomber -- Yesterday / Emily McCarthy -- From Pomfret / Thomas Guest -- A moment / Olivia Murray -- Tick, tock / Paul Schlumbom -- Station 11 / Hugh Mercer-Beumelburg -- The girl who kept wasps / Phoebe Rolfe -- A meeting / Olivia Maxwell -- Midnight / Bridget White --The fury is coming / Monique Thorp -- GRAPES / Karli Seager -- Ragnarök recrafted / Livné Ore -- Life below the clouds / Christina Grove --The weather today is eucalyptus / Elliott Hughes -- Birth marks / Thomas Guest -- Propensity / Rose McCulloch.