Due this week

5. Haunted. Have you ever been in a house where things go bump in the night? Do you believe that some buildings or places are haunted? Is there one in your town? Tell us a story about it. Make it believable.
Alternate: Lockers. What one thing do you wish no one to know about in your locker? Or what is the most important thing in your locker? Deadline: Friday Oct. 17.

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.

Women Writing....

Submitted by ggevalt on June 20, 2008 - 13:32.

Howdy,

Wanted to let you know that we are beginning to bring adult mentors onto the site. These are folks who are professional writers or teachers or regular old adults who can write their way out of a paper bag. They will not be monitoring or censoring you. They will be offering their ideas on your writing.

We are doing this -- and we'll continue to have college mentors when college is in session -- because there is so much writing going on and we want to develop this site's methods for feedback. We think receiving -- and giving -- feedback is an important part of writing.

Sarah Bartlett, who runs a Web site and program devoted to helping women and young women writers, is a new mentor who will be on the site, from time to time, commenting on the writing in your blogs. For more about Sarah and her program, go to womenwritingvt.com

CHEERS,
gg

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