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.

User account

To create an account on this site you must be 13 years or over and you must be a student, teacher or mentor in Vermont or New Hampshire.

Please fill out all the information below; everything with a red asterisk you must complete. We do NOT share any of it and need the information if we have questions on any of your submissions.

Once you sign up, you will get an email with a one-time password. This verification process was made necessary because so many users incorrectly wrote their email addresses. When you get that password, please sign in right away and change your password.

IF YOU DO NOT GET AN EMAIL, that means, probably, that you did not complete your email address properly. Try again. Once you are in, have fun, but keep in mind that all writing and comments must be respectful, non-threatening and civil. Your work must be your own, unless you attribute it.

If you have ANY problems, don't hesitate to email me or give me a call at 802.860-0570.

If you are younger than 13, click here for parental or teacher consent form.

Geoff Gevalt (gg) ywp director

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Your preferred username; punctuation is not allowed except for periods, hyphens, and underscores.
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Provide a password for the new account in both fields.
Personal information
Please give us your full name. It will not be made public but is needed for verification purposes.
We'd appreciate your street address in case YWP needs to contact you about an edit or selection.
Your home town.
The zip code for your home.
YWP may need to contact you; this will not be shared.
Please tell us what school you attend or at which you teach.
Check the box if you are a student.
If you are a student, please tell us your teacher's name.
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Terms and Conditions of Use
Contributor Assignment of Rights Agreement – Young Writers Project

Welcome to the Young Writers Project!

We are pleased you are contributing work to the Young Writers Project as a writer, visual artist, photographer, musician, filmmaker or dramatist.

Since we are now an independent, non-profit organization, we must establish clear legal ownership to ensure we have the rights to publish the works being submitted and to authorize publication of the works in other publications in any format. Our aim, after all, is to have as many people as possible see the work submitted to the Young Writers Project.

While the legal language might be off-putting, it is important for you to read this entire agreement and understand that by the act of submitting you are agreeing to its terms which, in essence, grant to the Young Writers Project Inc. all rights to the material submitted.

HOWEVER, while Young Writers Project Inc. retains the rights to the work being submittted, authors of the work can obtain the rights to republish or reuse their works by simply writing to us and obtaining written permission from Young Writers Project Inc. Editor, Geoffrey Gevalt, by clicking here, or by writing him at Geoffrey Gevalt, Young Writers Project Inc, 69 Swift St., Suite 300, South Burlington, Vt., 05461154 Hinsdale Road, Hinesburg, Vt., 05461. Response will be prompt.

By submitting this work to Young Writers Project Inc. you are hereby granting your consent and agreement to the following:

The Young Writers Project irrevocably owns all rights, title and interest to the work submitted to the Young Writers Project in perpetuity and throughout the world;

These rights include, but are not limited to: the right to publish or license others to publish the work in full, in part, in summarized, altered, or excerpted versions, and with updates, at any time in hard copy, on the Internet, via television broadcast, in hard-copy or electronic reprints, in hard-copy or electronic bulletins or anthologies, or in a computer-accessed databases, information retrieval systems or other archives, including on CD or DVD, or in or using any other media existing now or to be devised hereafter, all with no payment to the author;

The Young Writers may edit the work to conform with its size, format, style, or other requirements. You also agree to cooperate with the Young Writers Project in verifying the work, responding to questions about the work and in responding to any complaints, claims or litigation that may arise regarding the work;

You are not an employee of the Young Writers Project.

Further, you warrant that, to the best of your knowledge:

That to the best of your knowledge the author/creator of the work being submitted is the sole creator of the work, that the work is original, free of plagiarism and not previously published elsewhere in whole or in part;

The rights to the work have not previously assigned, transferred, encumbered or conveyed such rights; and

Reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the work does not defame, libel, slander, violate rights of privacy or infringe the copyright, proprietary rights or any other rights of any third party.

If you have any questions about this agreement, do not hesitate to contact Geoffrey Gevalt, editor of Young Writers Project, Inc.

Privacy policy: As you are being requested to supply personal information either when submitting work or when registering to write, understand that all personal information collected from you directly is kept private and will not be shared with anyone. YWP reserves the right to contact you to a) verify that what you have sent is yours, b) to notify you when work has been selected for publication or in connection with any award that might be given for your work and c) to contact you, from time to time, to update you regarding the Young Writers Project. You may, at any time, notify Geoffrey Gevalt either by phone (860-0570) or by e-mail to request that you not receive updates. Please also understand that you must be 13 years old or over and from Vermont or New Hampshire to register for this site. If you are under 13, you can e-mail Geoffrey Gevalt to obtain a parental consent form.

Click here if you have read and agree to terms and are ready to submit.

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