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 9

Submitted by ggevalt on October 29, 2007 - 20:32.

UPCOMING DEADLINE
9.The Boy. This 1909 photo is a young cotton mill worker in Burlington. Write a story or a poem about him. Who was he? What was his life like? Research the period and the photographer, Lewis Wickes Hine. DUE: Wednesday, Nov. 7. To submit: register; sign in; click "create content;" create an "entry."

WEEK NINE
This week: Ghost and Magic stories. Student content published on Tuesday in Brattleboro Reformer, Times Argus, Rutland Herald and The Valley News. Tuesday and Thursday in The Burlington Free Press. Click image on left to see or download Rutland Herald page as a pdf.

Click Times Argus or Brattleboro Reformer for their versions.

This week's student writing.

See "VISUALS" for more about the art.

Index of past weeks' pages.

The YWP appears weekly on Tuesdays in the Times Argus, Rutland Herald, Brattleboro Reformer and The Valley News. YWP student material also appears on Tuesdays and Thursdays in The Burlington Free Press.

To get published, send us your best work or respond to our prompts which have been scheduled for the entire year, click here.

The YWP seeks entries from students throughout Vermont and the Lebanon, N.H., area each week. Selections for publication are made by student judges under the guidance of YWP Content Editor, Lee McIsaac. All newspaper selections, plus Web extras, will be published on this Web site every Tuesday. Click on word for guidelines and instructions.

The Newspaper Partners:

The Burlington Free Press, a 48,000 daily circulation newspaper serving northern Vermont, publishes on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Living section, as well as Sundays in the Franklin County section and on Thursdays in the separate weekly editions in Colchester, Williston, Essex and South Burlington.

These papers publish on Tuesdays:

The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, a 10,500 daily circulation newspaper serving the capital area.

The Rutland Herald, a 22,000 daily circulation newspaper serving central Vermont.

The Brattleboro Reformer, a 10,000+ daily circulation newspaper serving south eastern Vermont.

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