Young Mensan Magazine
Young Mensan Magazine is a free quarterly magazine designed to help Young Mensans connect and share their interests. Please encourage your YMs to contribute to the magazine!
The magazine also publishes puzzles; poems; book, movie and game reviews; and essays about favorite subjects and activities. The most recent issue and the online archive are open to the public.
Read The Latest Issue View The Online Archive
In addition to stories, recipes, poetry, essays, and other items submitted by Young Mensans, each issue contains the following features:
RandoM
Have you ever had the experience of finding some random, strange fact and you just wanted to share it with someone? Well, here’s your opportunity! Young Mensans love random facts, and we want to read yours. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Ask an M
Do you have a question you’d like answered? We’ve got other YMs standing by, ready to share their advice with you. Would you like another perspective on something that’s troubling you with school, homework, siblings, other family, friends, teachers or anything else? Send them to us! If you see advice printed that you’d like to add to, we’ll take that, too!
HuMor
Young Mensans love jokes, and we love to share them.
Book Reviews
Reviews for the books read by Young Mensans who participate in the Book Parade program are published in YM².
Featured M
Young Mensans are doing all sorts of interesting things. If you are (or know) a Young Mensan with an interesting story to tell, we’d love to hear about it.
Submit your work to YM²
Contributors must be members of American Mensa and should be under 18 years of age. They can submit any writing they’ve done, jokes they’ve made up or tricky pieces of trivia they’ve found. If you’re a current Young Mensan, send your content to YM². Include the full name and age of the submitter, and preferably their membership number as well.
Other criteria of note:
- All submissions must be from current members of American Mensa under the age of 18.
- All submitted work must be the original work of the member. We do not accept work that has been published elsewhere.
- Prose pieces (stories or essays) should not exceed 700 words in length. Poetry should not exceed fifteen lines.
- Images are welcome. They must be at least 72 DPI (300 DPI preferred) and should not have fuzzy, blurry, have poor lighting or other quality issues. They must be free of copyright and should be the property of the submitter. If the image includes a photo of someone under the age of 18, a photo release is required.
- While we make every effort to include material submitted, publication is not guaranteed. We reserve the right to edit content for length, grammar, style, or other criteria.