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.

On the Terms...

NeonKiwi's picture

On the terms of Dickinson
I'll try to write a poem
And though at times it seems I am
I'm really not alone

The shades of night surround us all
As darkness settles in
The monsters corner me once more
For I have done no sin

Lights flicker in the distance far
Lo, how far can it be?
However hard I seem to look
It echoes distantly

The cries of war, of love, of hate
Follow endlessly
There's no escape from them at all;
They live eternally

The skies bleed red, a color grand
As tears fall from the clouds
In triumph and defeat we stand
Through the screams so loud

Now drop the pen which you hold
The scratches made in ink
Close your eyes a final time;
Just forget to think

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