Challenges

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

Weekly

  • Visual Art

    Deadline

    Thinking

    Make an image that represents how thinking feels using your preferred medium. 

  • Visual Art

    Deadline

    Swirls

    Create an image that is made up entirely of swirls. 

  • Writing

    Deadline

    Butterflies

    In prose or poetry, write a piece about transformation, whether it be about butterflies or about yourself.

Opinion & Commentary

  • Writing

    YWP is ...

    In a sentence or two, what does YWP mean to you? What impact does it have on your life? We'd love to pass your comments along to the good people whose donations keep YWP running! Please tell us so we can tell them! YWP is ...

  • 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

    Jacob Lawrence

    During the civil rights movement in the mid-1950s, this leading Black artist re-examined early American history through radical art.

  • Visual Art

    Jeffrey Gibson

    Native American artist combines an abundance of color with messages of freedom, human rights, and struggle.

  • Visual Art

    Jenny Holzer

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

Great Writers

  • Writing

    Rachel Carson

    This pioneering conservationist is considered one of the finest and most influential writers of the environmental movement.

     

  • 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.

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