Human Rights – Writing

Tomorrow Project Challenges

Whale Tails, Williston, VT

Human Rights – 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.
 

["Silhouettes" by Lia Chien, YWP Archive]


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 first phase of the project is completed in October 2025.
  • Prize winners and honorable mentions will also be published in The Voice.

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

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Submissions

  • dear madame president

    i hope that you rest easy as the world

    tumbles down into fire

    for you did everything you could

    & we didn't do enough. it was never

    your fate to carry the failures of

    common sense & education, but now

  • I can't do math

    at all, 

    1, 2, 3, 4, 

    all go in and out the other side, 

    it's always been this way, 

    kindergarten and getting in trouble because I could not solve,

    2 minus 5. 

  • Someday

    The clasp on her helmet made a satisfying clicking sound as Shay clipped it under her chin, preparing for her largest mountain biking race yet. A double marathon relay.
  • For Every Time

    Every time a women makes 87 cents

    A man makes a dollar

    For every time a woman gets spoken down on

    A man is the speaker

    For every time a woman gets called weak

    A man is weaker

  • Dull Roar

    I'm so mad I can hardly write poetry anymore, 

    every word rushes out and tumbles down, 

    knocking the inside of my skull, 

    a dull roar that follows me to school and home again. 

  • Battle Cries

    One girl’s lanky frame against the dark turf field,

    lit up by fluorescent lights 

    She saunters toward the building 

    holding another girl’s hand