Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

Newspaper Series -- Week 26

Submitted by ggevalt on March 25, 2008 - 10:14.

WEEK 26 -- March 25
UPCOMING DEADLINES: Fear. What’s yours? How do you deal with it? Alternate: Fishing. Write about your favorite fishing spot, the “one that got away,” or another fishing tale.
Note: Deadline has been extended to March 28 for FARMING and GREEN prompts. Cash and cheese to winners of farming prompt courtesy of Cabot Cheese.
Schedule of 2008 Prompts.

PUBLISHED THIS WEEK: Beginnings and Mud
Click image on left to see or download the Rutland Herald page as a pdf.
Click here for Brattleboro Reformer page or the Times Argus page.
Index of past weeks' pages.

Student content published on Tuesdays in Brattleboro Reformer, Times Argus, Rutland Herald and The Valley News and Tuesdays and Thursdays in The Burlington Free Press.

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