Community & Housing-Writing

Tomorrow Project Challenges

Barn, ice, hand

Community & Housing-Writing

In the genre 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?
  • Describe 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: "A World of Wonder" by Vivien Sorce, 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 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

  • Living Situations

    My friend's home is beautiful. 

    It's got green walls with flowers all over. The floor is soft and plush. It's warm but only in summer, and it's too cold in winter. But my friend likes it just fine.

  • Whose Home?

    I was born in a city.  Not a real city, just one of those urban approximations which flicker across the map for a minute, briefly important, and then fade.  My city was ‘briefly important’ for its steel.  We were one of th