Moji’s Taiga: Summertime and the livin’ is lazy. I must nap all afternoon. I need energy to eat and play at three-ten AM.| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, and to celebrate, we’re teaming up with Jane Austen’s House and poet Janine Bradbury to ask you to write a poem inspired by Jane Austen’s humour. This challenge is for writers aged up to 25 based anywhere in the world. The deadline is 23:59 GMT, Sunday 28 […]| Young Poets Network
Having lived through the Vietnam era, Dan Antion and Willow Willers’ novel, Poetic Justice, carved a special place in my heart as I read it.| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
It’s time for a new story challenge. Here are your words… Can you tell a story in 44 words using the following words in it somewhere: TRIATHLON DOLPHIN STYLISH ARISTOCRAT TOFFEE Last we…| Esther Chilton
Welcome to today’s Story Chat Digest 2025 post. We discuss incredible stories as though we were sitting together in a family room, having a fruity snack as we chat. For those new to Story Chat, you…| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
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
Hi friends, Marsha here. I hope you’ve never encountered any problems if you’ve self-published a book. I wish I could say that everything has gone smoothly every time I’ve publish…| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
Welcome to Poetry Day for Story Chat Digest 2025. We will discuss these incredible poems just as we do the short stories. Any type or topic of poem is acceptable as long as it doesn’t contain…| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
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
Welcome to Poetry Day for Story Chat Digest 2025. We will discuss these incredible poems just as we do the short stories. Any type of poem is acceptable as long as it doesn’t contain profanit…| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
This month we received one entry for Art and Puzzle Day. Thank you so much to Robbie Cheadle for her picture of a lion. If you enjoyed this picture and her haiku, you definitely should read her boo…| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
Should you enter the weekly writing contests from Reedsy? Let's look at some of the benefits including the $250 cash prize for winning.| WriterSanctuary
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
Chatting is always at the heart of Story Chat. We have had the privilege of having some of the most in-depth chatters in the world!| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
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The challenge: write a poem of up to 24 lines that makes use of rhyme, metre, and/or stanza breaks.| Young Poets Network
WQ #172: Things Inspire Happy Wednesday! Welcome to #WQ (Wednesday Quotes). Here’s your chance to showcase your photos, poems, thoughts, and stories about beliefs that inspire. This week, for…| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
WQ #171: May 29: People – Families Inspire Happy Wednesday! Welcome to #WQ (Wednesday Quotes). Here’s your chance to showcase your photos, poems, thoughts, and stories about beliefs tha…| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
WQ #170: May 22: Art/Photos, Paintings Inspire Happy Wednesday! Welcome to #WQ (Wednesday Quotes). Here’s your chance to showcase your photos, poems, thoughts, and stories about beliefs that …| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
This is your chance to ask the author questions, discuss writing techniques, and chat with other readers and writers about “Motorboat Madness.”| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
Colleen is in the 29th week of the 24-Season Poetry Challenge. This is the second week of Clear and Bright. Join in the fun. Other Inspiring Challenges for this Post Terri Webster Schrandt chose th…| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
I’m taking a break from WQ this month, but my schedule is on my WQ page. If you do want to send me a link, I’ll happily post it on what ever I post that week. This week the topic is is …| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
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
WQ #165: March 20: Weather/Spring Vernal Equinox Happy Wednesday! Welcome to #WQ (Wednesday Quotes). Here’s your chance to showcase your photos, poems, thoughts, and stories about spring weat…| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
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
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
Join SC Y3 week to showcase your unpublished short story. Open dates on the schedule are your opportunity to join in. :)| Marsha Ingrao - Always Write
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