Weekly Challenges

Design a futuristic cityscape that incorporates the natural world or sustainable technology.

Write about a character who feels they are cut off from something. How does this deprivation affect the way they go about their life?

You’re sitting by your window, head in hands, thinking about anything but tomorrow’s test. Suddenly, you see something out of the corner of your eye that snaps you out of your reverie.

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 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.