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Challenges
Weekly
Visual Art
Deadline
Comic
Create your own comic strip with a minimum of three panels. Feel free to incorporate fun elements like whimsical characters and onomatopoeia (words that imitate the sound being described) in your speech bubbles.
Writing
Deadline
Leave
End a poem or short story with the line: “And now you know why I can never leave.”
Writing
Deadline
Bench
It’s a beautiful day, and you’re out for a stroll in the park. A bench beckons you to have a seat and watch the world go by. What do you see? What do you think about? Respond in poetry or prose.
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
Emily Dickinson
She is one of the most original and prolific poets of all time, the incomparable Emily Dickinson (1830—1886).
Writing
Naomi Shihab Nye
"Before you know what kindness really is, you must lose things," writes poet Naomi Shihab Nye.
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?
Online Workshops
Writing
Writing Workshop: Free Verse Poetry
Free verse is freeing! You can write any way you like, break lines wherever you decide, and end a poem whenever you want.
Visual Art
Photo Workshop: Camera Settings
A camera is a tool that captures light and transforms it into an image. To achieve this, you need to understand and control three key settings: aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. Join YWP Alumni Advisor Kevin Huang for this online workshop.
Writing
Writing Workshop: Odes
Celebrate a certain place, person, or object that’s important to you by writing an ode. It can follow a format or be free-form and lyrical.
Opinion & Commentary
Writing
Grateful
What or who are you grateful for?
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Writing
Post-Election
Thoughts? Share them here.
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Writing
Work Goes On
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