Opinion

“What groups are you a part of? Who is your tribe?” someone once asked me. 

If kindness requires true intelligence, and intelligence is necessary for progress, striving for kindness would make progress inevitable.

When I first saw the news that Charlie Kirk had been shot I was scrolling through YouTube so I paid it no heed. Then I heard people in the hallways talking about what had happened.

YWP to me is a safe place for young writers to share their opinion where they are not pushed down, instead they are lifted up high. 

Young Writers Project has helped me discover myself and learn more about what it means to be a person.

Is this really what it means to be American? 

To say: Only certain people can be who they are. 

To start wars. 

To cause pain. 

To put others beneath you. 

Prompt for 2025-26 challenges:

Character connections: In poetry or prose, write about a connection - whether positive, negative, or neutral - between two characters or yourself and a character.

I have always been fascinated by space and all it encompasses. I don't know exactly why, maybe because of the unknown and wanting to understand it, thus making it known.

Hope is what guided us through our constant cycle of creation and destruction, of love and hate, and of our hearts and our minds.

A mini opinionated rant/essay of the new, popular phrase of Gen Z: "I love whatever is wrong with you." 

Let’s face it, we’re all victims of doom scrolling. But at the end of the day, anyone can post, and the capitalization of political media is an everyday reality.

July 1, 2025 - Why do we read and write?