YWP News

Thank you to everyone who stepped up to support our Annual Appeal! Your donations helped us reach our goal to receive a $10,000 matching grant from our generous anonymous donor!

Alex Bregy, a junior at Bennington College, is joining YWP as our winter intern with an online series of writing workshops under the banner, Wondrous Writers. See his first workshop in the series on Story Elements – Back to the Basics! 

Applications are open for the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont residential summer programs. Vermont students in grades 9-11 are invited to apply at GIV.org.

Congratulations to our four winners of the Pop Up Color Contest who found the light in dark December!

Donate to YWP and double your gift! A generous, anonymous donor is offering a $10,000 matching grant. All new and increased donations qualify for the match. 

Congratulations to our Autumn '24 Writing and Art Contest winners! The contest sparked a remarkable 190 responses to the challenge to "convey the ephemeral beauty of fall in the literary genre or visual art medium of your choice." 

Post-election, the YWP community responds in writing, art, and support for each other. 

Congratulations to our 75 published writers and artists! 

Congratulations to YWP's Evvi Tower-Pierce, 17, of East Burke, VT, whose illustration "Womane, Mother" was selected to illustrate a poem by Vermont Youth Poet Laureate Harmony Devoe on a commemorative broadside print.

Sam Aikman, a longtime member of the YWP community, is leading a series of online writing workshops this summer!

Prose Poetry Workshop

EKPHRASTIC POETRY

ODES

Free verse

Kaede Sawyer Fellows – Sawyer Fell on YWP – is YWP's newest Alumni Advisor!