Chris Solís Green, a DePaul English faculty member, is editor of "DePaul’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing 2023." (DePaul University/Jeff Carrion)DePaul’s Blue Book, an annual anthology featuring the best English and Spanish poetry, stories, essays and journalism from teens across the country, published its
latest edition in October.
“DePaul’s Blue Book is one way we can welcome new, young writers into our community,” says editor Chris Solís Green.
Learn more about why the Blue Book is important for young writers in this video featuring Solís Green and some of the student editors from DePaul’s English, Journalism, and Writing, Rhetoric & Discourse departments, who helped compile this year’s anthology. This year’s edition also received coverage on NBC 5 Chicago.
Submissions for next year’s Blue Book are being accepted through Jan. 31, 2025, on the publication’s website. Read more about the history and mission of Blue Book in this 2023 Newsline story.