For A While
Some people don’t stay
like mountains do.
They arrive like weather —
soft, sudden,
changing the air around you.
They sit beside you
on ordinary days
and somehow
make them glow.
Young Writers Project
The Daily Read
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The Beach
As I lie in the warmth,
The sun brushes life with gold.
My soul fills with sounds of laughter, thorns,
but everything feels so cold.
The beautiful water so nice and giving,
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Cookies to Constellations
I miss when everything used to be simple
when everyone got a cookie
and we didn't have to worry
about if there was one less
But I did,
because what if another guest came to the tea party?
Gallery
Challenges
Writing
Deadline
Mixtures
A mixture is created by adding multiple different ingredients together to make one beautiful, unified thing. In prose or poetry, write about a mixture.
Visual Art
Deadline
Country
If you were to create your own country, what would it look like? Draw a map of it. Is it just humans, or are there magical/mythical beings as well?
Visual Art
Deadline
Change
Is the snow starting to melt? Photograph and document the changes you can see in nature, capturing spring’s arrival at its earliest.
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.
Writing
Iran
Without Congressional approval or a clear statement to the American people, an attack on Iran has been launched by the U.S. and Israel. What is your opinion?
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.
News & Events
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Community Presentation: Tomorrow Project Featured
Poems from YWP's Tomorrow Project are featured Feb. 19 in a Vermont Humanities' presentation, "A Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted."
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'Mountains of Strength'
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!"
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Tomorrow Project: January 2026 Award
Congratulations to Goldenrose, the January 2026 award winner in YWP's monthly Tomorrow Project contest!
