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.

China Project Feedback -- Steven Tatum

Submitted by ggevalt on October 5, 2007 - 22:17.
Podcast: 

This is Steven Tatum, a member of the Vermont Youth Orchestra, talking about what he thought of The China Project, a multi-media journal of the VYO performing tour of China in the summer of 2007. The Young Writers Project editors held workshops and then served as mentors and editors during the trip to help students create a multi-media blog of their journey.

The blog was viewed by some 20,000 people in two and a half weeks. Parents, friends and relatives were constantly online checking on the journey and it became something of a local happening, as they used to say, in Vermont and in music circles around the country. Parents were able to vicariously experience their children's tour while musicians said they learned a lot -- through others' eyes -- about what they were experiencing.

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