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.

Kaitlin Olsen

Sonnet

Submitted by kolsen on March 27, 2008 - 10:21.

The mother screams when the baby comes out.
The nurse quickly takes it to weigh it.
The new dad gives a shout.
The nurse brings the babe back while it has a fit.

The mother smiles at her new baby.
The father holds it and a tear drips down.
The granddad takes I and names it Cady.
The grandma looks down adoring her clown.

The newborn baby is really famished.

MY ROOM

Submitted by kolsen on March 27, 2008 - 10:19.

My Room

By Kaitlin Olsen
Lyme School, Grade 7

The clothes on my floor
Blanket the ground like lush green grass
On the forest floor
My dresser leans up against my green walls
Like a rock just lying there in the middle of the forest
My closet full of clutter
Like leaves and twigs lazily lying on the cold dirt
My bed is a well full of nourishment
With a blanket of snow

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