New york times youth writing contest. The 14th annual short story challenge is a creative writing competition open to writers around the world. The 11th annual new york times summer reading contest our 10 week contest will be judged by times journalists and winners will be published on the learning network each week. Our contests are also an integral component of our free school year writing curriculum which offers daily writing.
In the 1st round january 17 25 2020 writers are placed randomly in heats and are assigned a genre subject and character assignment. Winners get their work published on the learning network. Our contests are also an integral component of our free.
The children and stepchildren of new york times employees and society for science the public are not eligible to enter this contest. Some may also be featured in a special section of the print new york times. There are 4 rounds of competition this year.
Region online every year new york times organizes student contest where teenagers around the world on various issues and ideas through essays editorials political cartoons photography videos poetry podcasts or culture reviews. This is a fun contest for fictional writing. The challenge is pretty straightforward.
The contest is an essential part of their mission of teaching and learning with the new york times. Choose a topic you care about gather evidence from both new york times and non new york times sources and write a concise editorial 450 words or fewer. The children and stepchildren of new york times employees are not eligible to enter this contest.
Nor are teenagers who live in the same household as those. Some may also be featured in a special section of the print new york times. Categories are broken up by topic and age and the award values go up to 100.