Human Rights – Writing

Tomorrow Project Challenges

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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

  • The Bird That Will Fly

    From the beginning of creation,

    Women have been underneath the growing nation.

    We sat and were forced to watch for decades,

    Underneath what men called “the shade.”


     

    But submission is temporary.

  • Like a snowflake

    Our differences define our Beauty,

    like the intricate details of every snowflake,

    standing out from each other,

    not in a bad way,

    not in a sad way,

    but in a beautiful way,

  • Two Birds and No Stone

    Don’t kill my birds.

    Tommy pays taxes.

    April runs a side hustle selling cursed bath bombs on Etsy.

    They have dreams.

    They have a 401k.

    They just bought a tiny house in a haunted forest

  • Asexuality

    In a community of acceptance,

    there is a lack of understanding

    for the A

    in LGBTQIA. 

    It’s easier to point fingers

    than interlock fingers

    or tap fingers to chins,

    thinking,

  • Maybe Someday

    Ya know

    Sometimes I don’t think

    That things will ever get better

    Sometimes I don’t see

    How they really could

    But I’m not always like that

    Sometimes I think

    “Maybe someday”

    “Maybe it will improve”

  • 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.