Guest Contributor, Naomi Jeske, 17 Happy National Poetry Month! I know we do not all consider ourselves poets. We are, of course, all writers. But each of us has a unique relationship to words whether we write fantasy or memoir or realistic fiction. Poetry. We document the past or we predict the future. We are …
Worldwide Plays Festival 2025: Light Up The Dark! Poetry Society of New York First Annual Youth Poetry Contest Deadline: March 1 for writers eighteen and younger who live in New York State Submit three to five pages of poetry for cash prizes. An exciting organization! Rawling Society Contest Deadline: March 1 for writers in middle …
Written by Lena Roy and Peter Quinn-Jacobs LENA: Scholastic season may be over, and sure we’ve all rolled up our sleeves and gotten back to work, but as writers, we also need to celebrate when we can. We celebrate the fact that we submitted at all. It’s lovely to be recognized of course, but more …
Written by Elsa Bermudez, Rita Feinstein, Tasnim Hussain, and Matthew Jellison On Superbowl Sunday, Writopia Lab NYC and DC ran our 8th annual essay conference! Writers from grades 7th-12th participated in both our NYC and DC conference, and some writers even flew in from California and Toronto to participate in our NYC conference! Their excitement …
On Tuesday, November 26th, 2024, we sent our community of young writers, parents, guardians, supporters, and educators a set of prompts and received dozens of lines of poetry in response. From all of that magic, we curated this holiday poem… by you and for you. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. “This Thanksgiving, I Am Not Alone”By …
Welcome to the 2024 Annual Newsletter. First, congratulations to the thousands of Writopia writers, from young and teen writers to instructors and full-time staff, who set out and completed the writing of original pieces this year! A few hundred members of our community also bravely submitted writing to the 2024 Scholastic Awards and to other …
Congratulations to all Writopia writers selected for publication this past school year in this year’s Writopia Publishing Lab’s books. Connecting Across Cultures: A Collection of Writing by Ten Jewish and Muslim American Teens Zoe Becker Dania Bressler Leila Cisse Mahnaz Daud-Basrai Heba Elkouraichi Zara Hai Ilana Horwitz Leonid Metlitsky Millie Nathanson Anniyah Rizvi “Loved Your …
Each July is filled with our longtime deeply meaningful and exciting partnership camps! For a decade now, Writopia has been running a special writing arts camp for dozens of creative and fun-loving children and teens at Homes for the Homeless’ Saratoga Family Inn. Starting seven years ago, we began working with 20-30 wonderful and gifted …
Congratulations! Rebecca Wallace-Segall, Chief Executive Officer, published the Writopia founding and impact story in the Village Voice in 2022 and co-authored an article on partnering for literacy impact in the Afterschool Matters Journal. She is completing her Masters in Urban Education Policy at CUNY Graduate Center this winter. Yael Schick, Co-Associate Executive Director, graduated from the Harvard Graduate …
Our graduating seniors wrote dozens of individualistic, beautifully-crafted college essays at Writopia this year that helped college admissions teams get to know—and feel deeply connected to—them as people. I am excited to share two essays below because of the creative format the writers chose to employ and because of the high level of personal reflection …