Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

YWP Newspaper Series -- Week 29

Submitted by ggevalt on April 22, 2008 - 10:48.

WEEK 29 -- April 15/22, 2008
New Deadline: Due Friday, May 2: #28. Graduation. Write the graduation speech you’d really like to hear. Choose a celebrity’s viewpoint if you want. OR, write a story about a graduation or a story about what you wish would happen at graduation.
Alternate: The Prom. Tell a story about how you asked or how you plan to ask someone to be your date. Deadline: May 2 Publication: May 27.
ALSO DUE May 2: Last entries for the year: GENERAL WRITING. Send us your best work of the year that you haven't sent in already.

PUBLISHED THIS WEEK: Lyrics & Premonition
Click image on left to see or download the Rutland Herald page as a pdf.
Click here for Brattleboro Reformer page or the Times Argus page.
Index of past weeks' pages.

Student content published on Tuesdays in Brattleboro Reformer, Times Argus, Rutland Herald and The Valley News and Tuesdays and Thursdays in The Burlington Free Press.

The YWP appears weekly on Tuesdays in the Times Argus, Rutland Herald, Brattleboro Reformer and The Valley News. YWP student material also appears on Tuesdays and Thursdays in The Burlington Free Press.

To get published, send us your best work or respond to our prompts which have been scheduled for the entire year, click here.

The YWP seeks entries from students throughout Vermont and the Lebanon, N.H., area each week. Selections for publication are made by student judges under the guidance of YWP Content Editor, Lee McIsaac. All newspaper selections, plus Web extras, will be published on this Web site every Tuesday. Click on word for guidelines and instructions.

The Newspaper Partners:

The Burlington Free Press, a 48,000 daily circulation newspaper serving northern Vermont, publishes on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Living section, as well as Sundays in the Franklin County section and on Thursdays in the separate weekly editions in Colchester, Williston, Essex and South Burlington.

These papers publish on Tuesdays:

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The Brattleboro Reformer, a 10,000+ daily circulation newspaper serving south eastern Vermont.

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