Challenges

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

Weekly

  • Visual Art

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    Shimmer

    Imagine you are peering over the side of a boat, trying to make out something beneath the water… Is it a school of fish? Trash? Treasure? Render what you see, as skewed by the shimmer of the surface.

  • Writing

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    Garden

    Write about someone spending a solitary afternoon gardening in their backyard. Does the act of weeding, planting, picking, or reaping represent something symbolically or hold significance for them personally?

  • Writing

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    Children's

    Write a short story or rhyme meant to entertain small children, or perhaps even teach them a lesson. Turn it into a picture book by adding basic illustrations of pivotal moments, if you are artistically inclined.

Opinion & Commentary

  • Writing

    National Protest

    Across the nation, people are mobilizing against the Trump-Musk agenda. Did you attend one of the April 5 rallies? Share your experience! 

    Hands Off!

  • 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

    Resistance

    Resistance is bubbling up in the first weeks of the Trump administration. What are you seeing and thinking?

Great Artists

  • 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. 

     

  • Visual Art

    Ted Walsh

    Recipe for a striking painting? Limited color palette, a spare style, and the gorgeous play of light and shadow.

Great Writers

  • Writing

    Pablo Neruda

    This Chilean poet, diplomat, senator began publishing under a pen name because his father discouraged him from writing poetry. Neruda went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • 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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