To submit writing for outside publication
Index of YWP Newspaper Series 2007-2008
To submit work for potential publication in partner newspapers, you may submit work in response to our weekly writing prompts or general writing. The work can be fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry, any genre whatsoever. There is no limit on length. You must be from Vermont or greater Lebanon, N.H., to be eligible for publication in the newspapers.
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 in a manner that would be detrimental, slanderous or libelous towards them. For more guidelines, click here.
Here are the steps:
- 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.) Please give us a day to double-check and then activate your account; we know this is inconvenient but it is for all users' safety.
2. Once you receive an email that your account has been activated, login, click CREATE at top or go to "Create content" on the right" and create an entry.
Fill out all the boxes (leave keywords blank).
3. In the body, at the top, put the author's name on one line and school and grade on the second, like this:
By Persimmini Jackel
Wishburn Elementary School, Grade 8
4 Then paste in the student's entry.
5. Click "Preview" to review and then "Submit."
Teachers will need to submit separate entries for each student. We realize this may mean a little extra work. If this is a big problem, you can 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
69 Swift St., Suite 300
S. Burlington, VT 05403
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.
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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.
In essence, Young Writers Project Inc. retains the copyright for all work submitted. This is a requirement for Young Writers Project Inc. to be able to publish the work in other publications and that, after all, is the principle aim of this project. However, any author or artist may retain all commercial rights -- permission to use or publish his or her work in any fashion and in any publication or medium in perpetuity -- by simply writing or e-mailing Geoffrey Gevalt, editor of Young Writers Project Inc., 69 Swift St., Suite 300, South Burlington, VT, 05403. We feel this will work for everyone: We'll be able to freely publish student work and students will be able to do anything they want with their work.
Expectations
By Kelsey Johnson
Hartford High School, Grade 10
Expectations
I brought my report card home from school today.
The grades aren’t too bad, all A’s and B’s.
As I’m walking home on the newly paved road,
I wonder what my parents will say.
Their expectations are too great for me.
I always work really hard for my grades.
I’m usually up until midnight or later
Doing my advanced chemistry homework
But my parents never appreciate my effort.
I tried picking up some more advanced classes this semester
But they still do not appreciate my effort.
My hard work is being destroyed by the words
“You can do better, Johnny always did.”
My teachers expect me to be just like him
At academics, sports, too.
In his freshman year in high school,
He was a quarterback on the varsity football team.
My parents wanted me to play football
To be “just like him.”
I don’t want to play football!
I want to hang out with my friends on the weekends
And go to the mall
And buy cute little mini-skirts.
Not be on the football field with a bunch of
Smelly boys who have never heard of deodorant.
I can’t take it anymore!
The only thing we have in common is that we look the same.
Blonde-hair, blue-eyes.
We are two very different people
With very different dreams.
I want my own identity
Where I am not compared to anyone.
I want to be me!!
I think I just submitted work
I think I just submitted a piece for my student Kelsey Johnson. Would someone confirm that for me? I want to make sure I didn't just post a comment to some scrolling forum or dialogue.
Geof, because I know you're always looking for suggestions, a "Your work has been submitted for review. We'll contact you if your piece will be published" would be a helpful confirmation.
Thanks for all you do.
Matt Peterson
Hartford High School
Almost there...
Matt,
Thanks for submitting this but you are correct, this isn't the right spot.
To SUBMIT a piece, you must log in, click CREATE CONTENT on the right and CREATE ENTRY. For more see PUBLISH>>SUBMIT WORK.
When you do that you do, in fact, receive a confirmation.
You have submitted this as a comment. I will move it to the correct spot under your login.
Given your confusion, I have added an additional link under announcements.
Thanks
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y is this so hard
could someone please make it easier to post peices for the writers project. It is so hard and confusing you have to be a freakin wizard to figure out how to do this. someone help me!!!
thanks
-matt
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How to submit work
Matt,
Sorry it's hard to understand. A few of you are having trouble and for that I apologize.
We have two parts to this project...
Hope this helps. We have been gradually evolving our submission system and, frankly, this is an interim state. Next year, after we do another reiteration of the site over the summer, we'll do it in one way.
I appreciate your question and observation that it's a bit complicated. Part of the reason it is a bit complicated, though, is that we offer a lot in return. We hope that's valuable.
Peace
Geoff Gevalt
YWP Editor
thanks, thank you for
thanks,
thank you for clearing that up for me. Thats alot easier.
-Matt
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(winking smiley guy)
Confirmation
I never received email confirmation for the creation of my teacher account
Annalisa Parent
Rice High School
feelings
Rejected
It was my first musical tryout. I was so excited, after all my years of practice maybe it would all pay off. My heart was beating fast now; I could hear it like a drum was banging inside my head. It was now time to sing which the main part of the tryout. Maybe I would make it… I sang, but the words of the song came out like I was in a sealed plastic bubble. Muffled like it was someone else singing. I couldn’t do it. But I wasn’t about to give up. I knew I could do it. We would find out who made it tomorrow. I just knew it, I blew it.
Winnie the stew (poem)
piglet likes his stew
whinnie does to
in summer when the sky is blue
they run without a clue
mabey someday they'll start anew
and stop making that stew
cause in the night time blue
dreams come true
mabey yours will too
Fall
Falling into peaceful silence,
Storm clouds in the air.
Colors from imagination,
A dreamer's sweet pine lair.
The colors stretch from head to toe,
All around they drift,
And in the breeze you can tell,
Fall spirits they do lift.
The wind rustles through my hair,
I catch it and hold it close.
I whisper a message to it sweetly,
"It's fall I love the most.
I'm not leaving
I have seen the sky,
The sun is held at bay,
And yet you still remain here,
So I too must stay.
I have heard the words you say,
You whisper them to me,
But yet I can not leave until,
Your safety I can see.
I have seen the future,
On a bay of sand.
I will wade into the water,
Reaching for your hand.
So I will hope that picture stays,
Inside my dreams at night.
For till that day I will not let,
You out of my sight.
can't wait!!!
I can't wait to start writing, this will be tons of fun!
thanks,
alexandra smith
Sibling Competition
My brother and I do things together,
And when we play we try to win.
We play video games, sports and more,
And always become competitive.
Most of our fights are caused by this
Because we’re both sore losers.
We turn everything into a competition,
Just for the sake of competing.
And even though it’s hard to admit,
Sometimes I do feel,
I’d rather play and lose to my brother
Than have no one to play with at all.
Sibling Competion
i completely understand what you are saying with this. I have two sisters of my own and i am always finding new things to compete with them over. I live for the competition and the satisfaction of knowing that i beat them.
Im a Confused Young Man
Hello my name is Chester and this is what happened. My friends were all going to Deion’s house to hang out for a little while; I wanted to go to my girlfriend’s house to hang out with her for a little while. So after about a half hour I needed a ride to football practice from my friends because I was still a few weeks away from getting my license. So when I called Deion to get a ride he was all worked up because I didn’t come hang out with them I went to my girlfriends, and because of that they refused to give me a ride. He was being a jerk for no reason and now because he is being unreasonable I have no ride to football. This was the day I realized I would rather hang out with my girlfriend than my friends who have been there for a long time. So this was the best argument I ever got in.
your name is similar to mine
your name is similar to mine really, I've never heard anyone's name who is Chester cool name! Chester is my nickname
Blogs
If you post a blog entry, does it mean it will possibly be published in the Free Press? I want to post some pieces, but I don't want them in the paper. I just want feedback on them. Does anybody know the answer to this?
No, only when you choose to
No, only when you choose to do so...
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The crimson tears of slaughter flow eternally through the sands of time... ~Self Quoted
cotton candy
jordan barlow
luck is kinda like cotton candy so soft tender melts in to your mouth just like a swirl of something you think will happen and that you believe in thats what cotton candy means to me so swirly something that taste so good and sugary thats what cotton candy means to me.