Challenges

YWP’s hub of inspiration: All our challenges are here!

Weekly

  • Visual Art

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    Landscaping

    Plan out your ideal garden, or your ideal, terraformed yard. Include any fun or extravagant details that occur to you, like birdbaths, garden sheds, fruit trees, and raised beds, and feel free to label your flowers and veggies if you have them!

  • Writing

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    Precious

    In poetry or prose, write about losing something small and precious to you, and the ensuing ordeal that becomes your desperate search for it – maybe to find it in the end, or maybe not to.

  • Writing

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    Teen Perspective

    Through poetry, prose, or personal essay, write about the experience of being a teen. What challenges do you face day-to-day, and expect to face in the future? What do you wish to communicate with the world at large, if only it’d listen?

Opinion & Commentary

  • Writing

    Leadership on the Left

    Resistance to 'crisis:' Sen. Cory Booker spoke out against the Trump administration at a marathon speech of more than 25 hours on the Senate floor. This follows the "Fight Oligarchy" tour of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

  • Writing

    Summer Memory

    Share a summertime memory in poetry or prose. A favorite place, a funny experience, a realization, insight, inspiration, or something that just says summer to you.

Great Artists

  • Visual Art

    Jenny Holzer

    This neo-conceptual artist's "Truisms," shown here in a 1982 Times Square exhibit, still resonates today.

  • Visual Art

    Tomokazu Matsuyama

    Tomokazu Matsuyama combines Eastern and Western art history, pop culture, graffiti, and more to create his magical, mystical paintings and sculptures.

  • Visual Art

    Bunny Harvey

    Walks in rural Vermont helped inspire these dreamy abstract landscape paintings. 

     

Great Writers

  • Writing

    James Baldwin

    The words of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin are as relevant to America today as they were during his lifetime.

  • Writing

    Toni Morrison

    In Black History Month, we honor Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to be awarded the Nobel laureate in literature, gained worldwide acclaim for her unvarnished exploration of Black identity in America. Have you read her work? 

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