Today, Foyle Young Poets Freya Gillard and Jennie Howitt invite you to explore the wonderful world of bogs, including their rich history and ecology, and to get inspired to write your own poems about our awesome and precious peatland ecosystems. | Young Poets Network
A chunky Victorian novel, a popular science book, Romeo and Juliet and a doctor’s leaflet: what do they all have in common? They are the source materials for new poems, for erasure poems – the theme of our latest challenge.| Young Poets Network
What happens when a poem moves across languages, cultures, and histories? We’re teaming up with world-leading journal Modern Poetry in Translation for the fifth time as they celebrate their sixtieth anniversary. Marketing and Communications Assistant (and YPNer!) Chloe Elliott invites you to dive into the MPT archive, and let your discoveries spark new poetic creations.| Young Poets Network
Acclaimed US poet, teacher and editor Peter Kahn explains the new poetic form that Ravi Shankar calls the ‘21st century sonnet’ – and challenges you to write your own.| Young Poets Network
Sure, you’ve conquered sonnets, and you’re a dab hand at haikus. Erasure poems are yesterday’s news and your shovel is already golden, thank you very much. It’s time to tick something else off your poetry glossary and master a new form.| Young Poets Network
Here at Young Poets Network, we love to see poems that innovate and push the boundaries of poetry! So we’re teaming up with the Estorick Collection to challenge you to write poems that break a rule in some way.| Young Poets Network
Roses are red, violets are blue, in today’s Young Poets Network challenge, we’re asking you… to once again think about using poetic form in your writing! Enter the humble couplet.| Young Poets Network
In our second August Challenge of 2024, Foyle Young Poet Noah Gower-Jones is asking you to dive deep into your relationship with the world underwater… | Young Poets Network
We’re teaming up with Rotherham-based green engineering firm AESSEAL to challenge young poets to write poems that explore the habitats we share with non-human earthlings. Poet Caleb Parkin offers some prompts for imagining building a world where we can coexist with birds, bugs, and bears…| Young Poets Network
Lights, camera, poem! We’re teaming up with the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, based at the University of Exeter, to challenge you to get inspired by your favourite films.| Young Poets Network
Every year, we ask Foyle Young Poets to challenge you to write poems in new ways: in the first challenge of 2024, Cameron Calonzo is asking you to look into the future and write about what you can (fore)see.| Young Poets Network
The challenge: write a poem of up to 24 lines that makes use of rhyme, metre, and/or stanza breaks.| Young Poets Network
Let’s cook up some poems together! We’re teaming up with the Garden Museum to get you inspired to write poems about growing and cooking food.| Young Poets Network
Shhh… can you hear that? We’re teaming up with People Need Nature and poet Polly Atkin to challenge you to think about the role sound plays in our relationship with nature. Send us poems about cooing pigeons, chattering chaffinches, bickering blackbirds…| Young Poets Network
Out with the old, in with the… old? Poets have been using ancient mythology as the basis for their writing for hundreds of years: today, we’re challenging you to re-invent myths, and even make up some of your own!| Young Poets Network
Roses are red, violets are blue, today on Young Poets Network we’ve got a new challenge for you…| Young Poets Network
In a busy world, take a peaceful moment for yourselves. Following poet Seán Hewitt’s writing prompts, submit your poems on peace by 12 September and take part in an international poetry programme that will bring people together from across the world.| Young Poets Network
Have you ever had to do a self-portrait in an art lesson at school? Today, we’re challenging you to write self-portrait poems: you can be as realistic, or as abstract, as you like… | Young Poets Network
Young Poets Network is teaming up with the Portland Japanese Garden for the second time to ask young poets worldwide to write about cultivating peace. This time, Oluwaseun Olayiwola invites you to take some quiet time to reflect. | Young Poets Network