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Inside a School Where Creative Writing Helps Teens Cope With Trauma

Students in a class taught by Emily Torres have significant trauma, mental health challenges, or both.

рџ“љ Emerging writers take center stage

The winners of the 2026 Barnes & Noble Children's & YA Book Awards

Power Of The Pen

​There is a profound, almost sacred space that exists between a wandering thought and a blank page. For many of us, writing begins as a simple school exercise—a string of rhyming w...

Hundreds of Teen Poems, One Surprise Finding

Statistics about depression, mental health, and screen time cause concern for young people along with older people’s judgment that “today’s generation doesn’t read or doesn’t care....

Become a Literacy Volunteer with the Writers’ Exchange

Looking for a volunteer opportunity this summer? The Writers' Exchange is a community that supports under-resourced kids and youth to build their confidence and get excited about r...

TEENS AT WORK: Literacy mentors help young Salem readers thrive

Read the first of Salem Reporter’s series looking at local teens working summer jobs. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the report. The post TEENS AT WORK: Lit...

The Knicks, Memes, Family Secrets and Clavicular: The Winners of Week One of Our Summer Reading Contest

For our kickoff week we’re honoring two videos and two short essays from 634 teen submissions.

a younger poet’s response

"Younger Poet's Reply"...

The Rebound: What a Week in Maine Taught Me About Writing in Company

By Allison K Williams Last week I taught a weeklong workshop for Maine Media in Rockport, Maine. Fog rolled off the harbor every morning and burned away by ten, and every morning,...

Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian

Our wildlife series Young Country Diary is looking for articles written by children, about their summer encounters with natureOnce again, the Young Country Diary series is open for...

Writing a Novel Helped My Career Make Sense

This year Jay Wamsted fulfilled a dream shared by many teachers – he finished and published a YA novel. "My career isn’t all that unique," he says. "The lessons I’ve learned, the s...

I'll Just Write One

At ten, Reva Agrawal made an impatient bargain with her mother: if she couldn't have a new book every week, she would simply write one herself. Five years later, that stubborn logi...

What Teens Told Us About Reading Whatever They Wanted in The Times

We challenged teens to choose any three recent New York Times pieces they wanted, then tell us what they got from them. The results are a delight.

The Artsy Kid: Finding Fierceness Beneath the Surface, a guest post by Katherine Wolff

All fiction is a kind of laboratory, a place where readers can inhabit a new personality inside the pages and where they can pursue adventures big and small.

Writers

Writers have problems. Writers win prizes. Writers play ping-pong, think other writers are their friends. Writers write baseball novels. Writers write war novels. Writers write abo...

On Gen Z Movies and Walking to the World Cup: The Winners of Week 3 of Our Summer Reading Contest

Ella Cheng talks about how Hollywood can engage her generation, while Camilla Guerrieri takes a walk in her neighborhood and shares her thoughts along the way.

‘A Bench Is Not a Barrier’: A Winning Student Open Letter

We are honoring the winners of our Student Open Letter Contest by publishing their entries. This one is by Violet S. Tran, age 15.

Summer Reading Contest, Week 2: What Got Your Attention in The Times This Week?

To participate, submit your response here by June 19 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced by July 1.

Summer Reading Contest, Week 3: What Got Your Attention in The Times This Week?

To participate, submit your response here by June 26 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced by July 8.

Summer Reading Contest, Week 1: What Got Your Attention in The Times This Week?

To participate, submit your response here by June 12 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced by June 24.

Award-winning writers to lead free creative writing courses in Waterford

Summer Reading Contest, Week 5: What Got Your Attention in The Times This Week?

To participate, submit your response here by July 10 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced by July 22.