Thread
Do you feel your head unspooling into the universe?
The ends of the string are fraying at the edges,
irreparably stained with the stardust at the ends
of the many worlds you stretch across.
Do you feel your head unspooling into the universe?
The ends of the string are fraying at the edges,
irreparably stained with the stardust at the ends
of the many worlds you stretch across.
Is it wrong
to want to be a princess?
Is it naive or childish?
Because I want to be in a world where at 16
I find my prince charming,
where every year onwards is happily ever after
a symphony of saxophone and jazzy drums plays
for a crowd of men in wide collared shirts and women in boxy dresses
in their hands are drinks
martinis and manhattans
with glistening ice cubes inside their glasses
Visual Art
Deadline
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.
Writing
Deadline
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?
Writing
Deadline
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)
Visual Art
Deadline
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.
Writing
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.
Writing
Who are you, and why are you here?
Poems from YWP's Tomorrow Project are featured Feb. 19 in a Vermont Humanities' presentation, "A Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted."
Thank you to everyone who donated so generously to our Annual Appeal, and for the messages of support and encouragement for the YWP community, such as this one: "We're sending you mountains of strength and abundant appreciation for everything!"
Congratulations to Goldenrose, the January 2026 award winner in YWP's monthly Tomorrow Project contest!