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Bennington College has a unique literary legacy, including ten Pulitzer Prize winners, three U.S. poet laureates, four MacArthur Geniuses, countless New York Times bestsellers, and two of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.

In celebration of this legacy, Bennington launched the Young Writers Awards to promote excellence in writing at the high school level. Our goal with this competition is to recognize outstanding writing achievement by high school students.

Each year, students in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades are invited to enter in one of the following categories with the following submission:

1. Poetry: A group of three poems

2. Fiction: A short story (1,500 words or fewer) or one-act play (run no more than 30 minutes of playing time)

3. Nonfiction: A personal or academic essay (1,500 words or fewe

Canvas Teen Literary Journal publishes the work of teen writers and artists 13-18 years old, read and rated by a board of teen editors. Our contributors and editors are from all over the English-speaking world and represent some of the best teen writing out there, in our humble opinion.

Elementia is a literary arts magazine published to represent and uplift young adults. We accept original poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic stories, photography and illustrations. 

Ask any successful author how they got started, and they’ll tell you that when they were young, they loved reading. One of the foundational goals of Ember is to foster the next generation of great writers by providing them with excellent reading material now. We believe that people who learn to love reading at an early age are more likely to seek knowledge in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Those who then learn to love writing often go on to apply creativity and problem solving to those same critical disciplines—underscoring the importance of solid reading and writing skills.

For that reason, our Submission Guidelines are open to authors and poets age 10 and up.

The Declaration for All Life on Earth is the guiding vision of the Goi Peace Foundation. It describes our common responsibility as members of a global community, and sets forth universal principles to realize a sustainable and peaceful world in the 21st century. Our aim is to share the vision of the declaration and to encourage all people to apply its values and principles in their individual lives and in their specialized fields of activity.