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.

UPCOMING -- Update

Due Friday, DEC. 5: Future of Vermont Challenge. Get published, win cash, special presentations. We've extended the deadline to accommodate some school folks who have been pressing to make the deadline. Don't put it off! Get your entries in now!

Nov. 22: YWP Anthology Release -- Celebration and Workshops. Sign up. Show up. Have fun. Don't miss it!

Esquire

Gabe The Whirling Thunder's picture

The Beetle

Submitted by Gabe The Whirli... on October 6, 2008 - 11:31.

My feet stood in a shroud of dust,
And my eyes were pensive
In the melancholy sun of an August afternoon.
Nestled in among the pebbles
On the side of the road
A brilliant sapphire,
Dropped from the finger
Of some foreign noble lady,
Lay gleaming amidst the earth and stone.
I flipped it over with a stick
And wondered, as it scurried away,
Whether it would ever know
That I saved its life

Syndicate content

Sponsors

    We are grateful to the Vermont Business Roundtable and its members -- business and educational leaders throughout the state -- for their generous support of this project. These leaders recognize the value of what we do and the importance of writing in life. For more, see: VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE & members
    We also depend on the generosity of individuals. Please DONATE NOW to continue our work. We are a 501(c)3 federal charity and so all donations are tax-deductible.