Vermont Writes Day: Tuesday, Feb. 7 INFO

YWP is encouraging schools (and organizations and businesses) to stop what they're doing and write for 7 minutes on 2.7.11. Prompts and info, click here.

Submit photos and visual art

YWP encourages students to add photos and/or images to their posts to enhance their writing. To see just how much images can add to your posts, check out these examples. Also, we are always looking for photos or scanned art for possible publication in the Newspaper Series or our annual Anthology. If you are submitting work for possible publication, please make sure that it is in jpeg format at a resolution of 300 dpi (or higher) and 8" by 10" size. There are three ways to submit photos or scanned art work: 1. By clicking "Create a Newspaper Entry" and then clicking the green plus icon

below the "Body" box. Be sure to fill out all the other information on the Newspaper Entry submission form. 2. By email. If you have multiple entries, you may want to send them in separate emails. To submit art work by email click here. You must also include in your email ARTIST information: name, grade, school of the artist; CONTACT information: phone number and mailing address; and ART information: what is the piece? what inspired it? etc. Personal information -- phone and addresses -- will not be made public. 3. Mail a CD or DVD to:

Click here to read these in full. Essentially YWP retains the copyright but you (the artist) retain the commercial rights -- you are free to do or to sell or to publish your material as you see fit in perpetuity. Please read before submitting. By submitting this work you are agreeing to those terms and conditions. This copyright arrangement is a requirement of Young Writers Project Inc. in order to be able to publish your work in other publications and that, after all, is the principal aim of this project. To affirm that you retain all commercial rights -- permission to use or publish your work in any fashion and in any publication or medium in perpetuity -- simply write or email Geoffrey Gevalt, Editor, Young Writers Project Inc., 20 Winooski Falls Way, Suite #4, Winooski, VT, 05404. We feel that this copyright arrangement will work for everyone: We'll be able to freely publish student work and students will be able to do anything they want with their work.
Ready to submit? CLICK HERE.