Challenges

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

Weekly

  • Visual Art

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    Cityscape

    Design a futuristic cityscape that incorporates the natural world or sustainable technology.

  • Writing

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    Deprivation

    Write about a character who feels they are cut off from something. How does this deprivation affect the way they go about their life?

  • Writing

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    Reverie

    You’re sitting by your window, head in hands, thinking about anything but tomorrow’s test. Suddenly, you see something out of the corner of your eye that snaps you out of your reverie.

Opinion & Commentary

  • Writing

    Resistance

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

  • Writing

    Protests Begin

    Americans are starting to rally against the Trump administration in a grassroots effort to build a national movement. Read about it. Write about it.

Great Artists

  • 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.

  • Visual Art

    Claude Monet

    How did the Impressionist movement get its name? It started with this painting by Claude Monet and an art critic's insult.

Great Writers

  • 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? 

Online Workshops

Contests

  • Visual Art

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    Climate and Our Earth - Visual Art

    Create art that explores the many impacts of the climate crisis and celebrates the wonders and beauty of Earth. Find inspiration in YWP Alumni Advisor Sam Aikman's series of visual art prompts. 

  • Writing

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    Climate and Our Earth - Writing

    The Earth is in crisis. Dig deep, YWP, and write about it with YWP Alumni Advisor Sam Aikman. Find "both the heavy and the hopeful, the worried and the appreciative, the challenged and the uplifted ... to create!"