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.

Vacation challenge

Submitted by ggevalt on April 24, 2008 - 16:59.

OK, so someone sent me this link and I honestly was flabbergasted. I'm not sure whether video can inspire you to write, but here goes. Watch this, then write about it; tell us what it made you think about, create a story, write a poem, whatever. Do it in the comment section so we can see everyone's creations. The challenge, of course, is this: Can you keep up with an elephant?

Underestimated Grey artist

Submitted by MaryHarmonium on May 11, 2008 - 10:29.

suprised by such a feat
expect non the less from others
just unable to communicate like us
Has more talent than most of homo sapiens
has the right mind to control and creat with his limbs
keeps others amazed by what he does and how he sees
give props to this big grey wrinkled friend
for someday you might be working for him

SnowStars's picture

hee hee!

Submitted by SnowStars on May 11, 2008 - 11:55.

So true! I especially like the last part!

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Art.

Submitted by NinaKnorr on May 18, 2008 - 21:53.

Creation is an art
In which Soul is mind and body is part
In which what is released comes from the heart

People are at the top
We rule the world and it probably won't stop
Believing that is all we've got

We're all the same
And as soon as we stop playing our human mind game
As soon as we stop obsessing over the fame
We'll realize...
That we're all the same

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