Challenges

YWP’s hub of inspiration: All our challenges are here!

Weekly

  • Visual Art

    Deadline

    Noms

    Create an eye-catching still-life using 3-5 food items from your refrigerator or pantry. Highlight at least one product with loud and/or colorful graphic elements on its packaging.

  • Writing

    Deadline

    Sister

    Three words: Long lost sister. Write about her.

  • Visual Art

    Deadline

    Blackout

    Try your hand at blackout poetry by finding an old, unused book or magazine and scouring it for meaningful words or short phrases that can be pieced together to make up a new poem. Use a black marker to redact the remaining words around them.

Opinion & Commentary

Great Artists

  • Visual Art

    Claude Monet

    How did the Impressionist movement get its name? It started with this painting by Claude Monet and an art critic's insult.

  • Visual Art

    Ed Ruscha

    With a consequential election on the horizon, we focus on a U.S. painter who incorporates the words of our times in his art, words such as "president" and "oof."

  • Visual Art

    Marc Chagall

    "If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."

    - Marc Chagall

Great Writers

  • Writing

    Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to be awarded the Nobel laureate in literature, gained worldwide acclaim for her unvarnished exploration of Black identity in America. Have you read her work? 

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