Contests

Community & Housing-Visual Art

Deadline March 14 2025

Using the medium of your choice, respond to one of these prompts, or explore the topic in your own way.

How do you gather support from your community in a challenging time?
Illustrate the concepts of home, community, and inclusion. Look around your community. What are its special characteristics that make it feel like home?
Is your community working – for everyone? Why do you think some people have access to affordable, safe housing in your community, and others do not? Observe the places that are accessible to people with disabilities and those that are not.

[Art credit: "Dusk" by Nathaniel Steel, YWP Archive]

CONTEST DETAILS:

Open to teens, 13-19, who have a YWP account. (It's free to join!)
Must be original work and not published elsewhere. No AI.
No limit to number of submissions.
Each submission will be considered for the Tomorrow Project's six grand prizes of $250 to be awarded when the project is completed in October 2025.
Additional Fair Housing Month prizes and exhibit: Three $50 cash prizes for writing and three $50 prizes for visual art, sponsored by Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO). Winning entries will be displayed at City Hall in Burlington, VT, during Fair Housing Month, April 2025.
Prize winners and honorable mentions will also be published in The Voice.
Submissions due: March 14

Questions? Contact Susan Reid, YWP Executive Director: Reid@YWP on the site, or by email: sreid@youngwritersproject.org

Submissions