Weekly Challenges

Use any medium to depict your own version of a rainbow over a bucolic landscape. Don’t be afraid to mismatch the style of the terrain and the style of the rainbow to allow the latter to pop!

Your parents have given you carte blanche to set up a studio space in your attic – a place just for your hobbies and creative endeavors. How do you decorate it, and what do you engage in when you're in the space?

Write a short op-ed or personal essay about social media and its impact on young people’s lives. 

Portray a character conveying a strong emotion, whether through facial expressions, body language, color (ex: red for anger, blue for sadness), etc.

Create a setting that is so personified and compelling in its portrayal of human characteristics that it becomes the main character of a poem or short story. For example, a house with a mind of its own.

Write about an invite-only club meeting in a backyard tree house. What is the glue that holds the group together? What shenanigans do they get up to?

Imagine you are peering over the side of a boat, trying to make out something beneath the water… Is it a school of fish? Trash? Treasure? Render what you see, as skewed by the shimmer of the surface.

Write about someone spending a solitary afternoon gardening in their backyard. Does the act of weeding, planting, picking, or reaping represent something symbolically or hold significance for them personally?

Write a short story or rhyme meant to entertain small children, or perhaps even teach them a lesson. Turn it into a picture book by adding basic illustrations of pivotal moments, if you are artistically inclined.

Depict fire in your own imaginative way: the fire in a fireplace, a bonfire, a forest fire … Show its surreal beauty or its destructive force, or both.

Your character sets out to achieve a nearly impossible goal, which leads to humorous, surprising, and touching results.

Merriam-Webster’s definition of onomatopoeia is “the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss).” Use as many onomatopoeia words as you can in poetry or prose.