Elementary
A Wander In The Woods
A Wander In The Woods invites your students to fall in love with story writing...
Ideal for 10-18
Fight Or Flight
Middle & High
Unsolved 2025
Get your students writing thrilling fiction with Unsolved - the creative writing contest for 10-18 year-olds
All
Winter Wonderland
Whatever your students' thoughts about wintertime, they can let us know in a poem!
Ideal for 6-13
Wonderverse
Wonderverse is a poetry contest guaranteed to ignite imaginations in any classroom and get your students writing.
Extended Closing Date
Friday 10th January 2025
Ideal for 10-18
The Beautiful Truth
A poetry contest to inspire and engage 10-18 year-olds as they write about what matters to them.
Extended Closing Date
Friday 10th January 2025
How it works...
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Use the amazing FREE resources and engaging themes to inspire children and young adults to get writing.
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2
Send your work to Young Writers - our editors read every poem and story we receive!
3
It’s time to celebrate as children become authors published in a real book!
Welcome to Young Writers
Inspiring Young Writers since 1991
"The students enjoyed the freedom of this project (Peculiar Pets). It got them excited to write."
Amanda Peterson, Christ The King School, NY
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"This is my sixth year using YW to publish my students' writing and they are so easy to work with! My students are always excited to use the provided theme and challenge themselves to be chosen!"
Katie Miller, Blue Eye High School
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