Challenges

YWP’s hub of inspiration: All our challenges are here!

Weekly

  • Visual Art

    Deadline

    Night

    Depict your own interpretation of the night sky. What you show is up to you: the moon, the stars, other planets; lightning bugs, skyline silhouettes, the world bathed in shadow.

  • Writing

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    Proud

    Pause a second to think about what you are most proud of in life, whether a single moment or a prolonged effort. How has the experience shaped you?

  • Writing

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    Stuck

    Write about two or more characters trapped in an elevator, waiting in a dead-still traffic jam, or otherwise temporarily stuck together. Do they find humor or stress in the situation?

Opinion & Commentary

  • Writing

    Deadline

    Summer Memory

    Share a summertime memory in poetry or prose. A favorite place, a funny experience, a realization, insight, inspiration, or something that just says summer to you.

  • Writing

    National Protest

    Across the nation, people are mobilizing against the Trump-Musk agenda. Did you attend one of the April 5 rallies? Share your experience! 

    Hands Off!

  • Writing

    Leadership on the Left

    Resistance to 'crisis:' Sen. Cory Booker spoke out against the Trump administration at a marathon speech of more than 25 hours on the Senate floor. This follows the "Fight Oligarchy" tour of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Great Artists

  • Visual Art

    Jenny Holzer

    This neo-conceptual artist's "Truisms" message in Times Square in 1982 resonates today.

  • Visual Art

    Tomokazu Matsuyama

    Tomokazu Matsuyama combines Eastern and Western art history, pop culture, graffiti, and more to create his magical, mystical paintings and sculptures.

  • Visual Art

    Bunny Harvey

    Walks in rural Vermont helped inspire these dreamy abstract landscape paintings. 

     

Great Writers

  • Writing

    Pablo Neruda

    This Chilean poet, diplomat, senator began publishing under a pen name because his father discouraged him from writing poetry. Neruda went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • Writing

    Toni Morrison

    In Black History Month, we honor Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to be awarded the Nobel laureate in literature, gained worldwide acclaim for her unvarnished exploration of Black identity in America. Have you read her work? 

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