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  • Poetry

    By Futaba

    I want to

    I'm a poet,

    I'm a writer,

    I'm a sister.

     

    I'm outrageous,

    I'm silly, 

    I'm weird.

     

    I'm also not special

    I'm not better

    or the best

     

    But I want to be.

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  • Poetry

    By star

    Pyrite

    *lines in italics are from Jane Eyre

     

    Are you apprehensive of the new sphere you are about to enter?

    Because I fear

    For the warm skin

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  • Poetry

    By Muse_Of_Orpheus

    Longing

    It always seems that 
    In the unruly depths of each Alabama winter 
    I long for summer 
    For campfires and S'mores 
    And laughing louder than the cicadas 

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  • Painting of three trout.

    Visual Art

    Deadline

    Fish

    Create a painting or photograph of one fish or a school of fish. You can focus on one type of fish or a mixture. Realistic or fanciful. Think about detail, color, and shape in this appreciation of fish.

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  • Image of a castle peeking through the trees.

    Writing

    Deadline

    Fairytale

    Create your own fairytale. Whose perspective is it told from? What magical creatures might be in your story? What is the climax? How does it end? 

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  • Image of a girl listening to music through her headphones.

    Writing

    Deadline

    Music

    Write about your favorite song or piece. How does it make you feel? What do you see in your head when you listen to it? What exactly makes that song or piece your favorite? (Challenge created by nimbostratus, YWP)

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  • Visual Art

    Deadline

    Winter 2026 Art Contest

    With your artist's eye, observe, interpret, and create. Choose a subject — an everyday object, a person, a landscape — and give yourself time and space to study it. Use the medium of your choice to convey the subject the way you uniquely see it.

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  • Rosa Parks

    Writing

    Rosa Parks

    Consider the gains made in civil rights by heroes such as Rosa Parks who refused to accept Jim Crow segregation and bravely acted on her belief that "all people should be free, regardless of their color." Share your thoughts about civil rights today.

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