How to submit writing for outside publication

Young Writers Project partners with five Vermont and New Hampshire newspapers to publish best student work once weekly throughout the school year, with weeks off corresponding to the schools' vacations. All the work printed in the newspaper, plus selections by our judges that could not fit onto the newspaper pages, is also published on this Web site.

To submit work for potential publication in 2008-09 in one, some or all of the five daily newspapers partnering with YWP (Burlington Free Press, Times Argus, Rutland Herald, The Valley News and the Brattleboro Reformer), you may submit general work done in school or at home or you can send in responses to our weekly writing prompts.

The work can be fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry -- any genre whatsoever. There is no limit on length, but we may have to excerpt longer pieces in the papers. (We'll publish full stories on the Web.) You must be from Vermont or greater Lebanon, N.H., to be eligible for publication in the newspapers.

If you're logged in and want to submit work to the Newspaper Series now, click here.

Here are the steps to submit:

1. Create an account on this site and login. (If you are under 13, you need to get a permissions form and get a parent to sign it and send it back to us.) You must verify your account through email; we send your username and a generated, one-time password that you must use right away and can use only once. When you log in, you must change your password. We verify all information on your sign-up; if it is inaccurate, we will block your account. NO INFORMATION is shared or made public; please be specific and accurate.

2. Once logged in, click CREATE at top or go to "Create content" on the right" and create an ENTRY. Fill out all the boxes, including the prompt (leave keywords blank) and paste the entry into "body."

3. On top of the story, please include the author's name on one line and school and grade on the second, like this:

By Persimmini Jackel
Wishburn Middle School, Grade 8

5. Click "Preview" to review and then "Submit."

Teachers: Please submit separate entries for each student. We realize this may mean a little extra work. If this is a big problem, you can paste all entries into the body IF you have identified AND they are all on the same prompt. You can also submit by e-mail: Click here for contact information.

If you do not have access to a computer, you may send neatly written or typed entries to:

Young Writers Project Entry
Champlain Mill
20 Winooski Falls Way, Suite 4
Winooski, VT 05404

Please include your address and telephone number, or your teacher's number, so we can confirm or contact you should your entry be chosen for publication.

Work must be accurate and your own, unless noted -- in other words, you cannot copy or plagiarize someone else's work. All work must be civil and respectful; you cannot refer to someone specific (by name or in a way they could be identified) in a manner that would be detrimental, slanderous or libelous towards them. For more guidelines, click here.

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As a reminder, the submissions are subject to the terms and conditions of this Web site summarized below or outlined in detail here. Please read before submitting. By submitting this work you are agreeing to those terms and conditions.

Young Writers Project Inc. retains the copyright for all work submitted. We must do this in order for YWP to be able to publish the work in other publications. However, Young Writers Project automatcially grants back to ALL authors or artists submitting work all commercial rights to the works, meaning all authors and artists can use or publish or sell his or her work in any fashion and in any publication or medium in perpetuity.

If the author or artists wants these rights more specifically granted, simply write or e-mail Geoffrey Gevalt, editor of Young Writers Project Inc., 20 Winooski Falls Way, Suite 4, Winooski, VT, 05404.

We feel this arrangement works for everyone: We are able to freely publish student work wherever and whenever we wish and students will be able to do anything they want with their work as well.