Respond to any of these writing and visual art challenges by Oct. 31, 2025 to be considered for The Tomorrow Project's cash awards and publication.
Visual Art
Are you going to a No Kings protest in your area on Saturday, Oct. 18? If you are, take photos and share them with YWP!
Writing
The Constitution’s meaning is not the Supreme Court’s alone to define. It belongs to “we the people,” and we can make it work for us. Read more about this argument and share your opinion.
Writing
"Don't lose hope." That was the final message to the world from Jane Goodall, renowned ethologist and activist known for her ground-breaking studies of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and a lifetime of global conservation work.
Writing
Consider how rights are diminishing for LGBTQ+ people, women, Native Americans, people of color, people with disabilities, and other historically marginalized groups. Write about the impact this has on you, your friends & family, your community.
Visual Art
How do you celebrate human rights through art? How do you protest their erosion in America today? In photography, painting, sketching, digital art, or another medium of your choice, send a powerful message through your art.
Writing
If all collective knowledge was destroyed, except for one brief but informative sentence, what would you like the world to know?
Writing
Poetry steps in where uncertainty and chaos take root. Poetry lifts us up and moves us forward with determination. Explore these poems of hope and resilience. If you are inspired, share your own.
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
Consider the communities in your life and write about them with the help of prompts and examples!
Visual Art
How would you illustrate the America you know, or remember, or wish for? It could be your ideal vision or something small but representative of your everyday life. Using the artistic medium of your choice, capture your America.
Writing
What is to become of the American health care system with vaccine-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in charge and top leaders of the CDC resigning? Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is among those calling for Kennedy's resignation. What do you think?
Writing
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." July 4, 1776