[Y]oung Writers Project, an independent nonprofit based in Burlington, engages young people to write and use digital media to express themselves with clarity and power, and to gain confidence and skills for school, the workplace and life.
Check out the most recent issue of The Voice, Young Writers Project’s monthly digital magazine. Click here.
Each week, VTDigger features a writing submission – an essay, poem, fiction or nonfiction – accompanied by a photo or illustration from Young Writers Project.
YWP publishes about 1,000 students’ work each year here, in newspapers across Vermont, on Vermont Public Radio and in YWP’s monthly digital magazine, The Voice. Since 2006, it has offered young people a place to write, share their photos, art, audio and video, and to explore and connect online at youngwritersproject.org. For more information, please contact Susan Reid at sreid@youngwritersproject.org.
Claudia Lowry, 13, of Burlington writes about quickly and quietly fleeing a storm, a timely piece given Vermont’s Oct. 29 windstorm.
Quickly Now
By Claudia Lowry
[T]he brittle trees sway in the howling wind
Their long limbs threatening to break
Just as the storm overhead
Quickly now
We pack the rest of our too dry sandwiches
Fold the too itchy blanket
And
Quickly now
We walk back
With too many words left unspoken
