Visual Art
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Silhouettes
Create an image that is made out of dark silhouettes on a light background. Will your silhouettes be people, plants, animals, or something else?
Need inspiration? YWP has a wide range of writing and visual art challenges every week throughout the year. Teens ages 13-19 are encouraged to sign up for a free YWP account to respond directly to the challenges. Writing and art posted on the site – both responses to these challenges and general "Create" posts — will be considered for publication with our Vermont media partners, and in our monthly digital magazine, The Voice, and our annual anthologies. Teachers do not need a YWP account to view the site and use our challenges and resources to inspire young writers and artists.
PDF of 2025-26 Weekly Challenges
Visual Art
Deadline
Create an image that is made out of dark silhouettes on a light background. Will your silhouettes be people, plants, animals, or something else?
Writing
Deadline
If you were half-human and half-robot, what kind of robot would you want to be? Write about this as a short story, or whatever form you prefer.
Writing
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Write a short story about something spooky, or candy-filled, or costume-filled, happening on Halloween.
Visual Art
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Photograph an animal. Try to orient your image so it tells a story.
Writing
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Close your eyes and try to take ten full breaths without your mind straying to other thoughts. Write about this experience and how your mind behaves.
Writing
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Is there someone in your life who you used to be close with? In poetry or prose, write a piece inspired by this person and/or your relationship with them.
Visual Art
Deadline
Create a small comic strip.
Visual Art
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Using your preferred medium, show us what your dream cake looks like and if there is something more to it than what meets the eye.
Writing
Deadline
Imagine you are an octopus––able to change your appearance at will and feel everything around you. What would that be like?
Visual Art
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Using just pencil and paper, draw a sprawling city full of apartment buildings and people.
Writing
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Look at a fruit, any kind of fruit, and write down everything you notice about it. Write a poem about this fruit and see where your observations take you.
Writing
Deadline
Write a poem about what you imagine it would be like to float among the clouds.