Deep Thoughts
I am a thinker.
I think about big problems in the world and how to fix them.
Like climate change, evolution, the state of humanity as of now.
I write stuff down, half-finished thoughts scribbled, or typed on the page.
Young Writers Project
The Daily Read
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Somewhere to Live, Someone to Love
There’s a place I want to live
And someone I want to love
I want to live in a place
So full of joy
That it fills me too
So full of people
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sweetness that melts
There’s a quiet beauty
in the things you know won’t last
moments already fading
even while you’re inside them.
Gallery
Spotlight
YWP's Spring Writing and Art Contest Begins!
YWP's Spring Writing and Visual Art Contest is on! In writing or art, explore the sense of freedom, renewal, and celebration as winter turns to spring.
Challenges
Visual Art
Deadline
Flower
Using your preferred medium, create an image of a yellow flower with at least one other element, such as a red ladybug, a green grasshopper, a blue dragonfly, or ...?
Writing
Deadline
Window
Write about the view from your window. What do you see every day? Is it always the same, or is there ever something different?
Writing
Deadline
Lottery
Write a story about someone who has just discovered that they won the lottery. What will they do with their winnings?
Writing
Deadline
Spring 2026 Writing Contest
Throw open the windows, poet Billy Collins urges in "Today," his joyful poem about spring. Let the "warm intermittent breeze" lift you up and carry you off. In poetry or prose, explore the sense of freedom and celebration of spring.
Visual Art
Deadline
Spring 2026 Visual Art Contest
When spring takes over from winter, there is a sense of new beginnings, rebirth, hopefulness. Share your discoveries through photography, painting, or another artistic medium of your choice.
Writing
Kazuo Ishiguro
In winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, this author was honored for his "novels of great emotional force," including "The Remains of the Day" and "Never Let Me Go."
News & Events
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Tomorrow Project Writing Featured March 14
Poetry from YWP's Tomorrow Project is being featured around the state this spring as part of a Vermont Humanities' series. Next stop: Essex Junction, March 14
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The Tomorrow Project — Monthly Awards
Congratulations to The Tomorrow Project's monthly award winners! February's award goes to Creativity641, 14, of Vermont for the poem, "Finding Hope."
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Winter 2026 Art Contest Award Winners
Congratulations to our Winter 2026 Art Contest award winners! Sixty-five pieces were submitted to the contest, and YWP judges were hard-pressed to select just three winners — so they chose five!
