Elijah Cory, a senior at Champlain Valley Union High School and a summer
intern at Young Writers Project, says he wrote this pantoum (a form of
poetry with repeating lines) while thinking about “the fleeting and
conflicting natures of youth and beauty.”
Rebecca Valley is a longtime Young Writers Project writer.
“This piece,” she says, “was written to the soundtrack of a pack of
coyotes howling in the woods behind my uncle’s home in the middle of the
night."
David Mercier of South Burlington says he wrote this piece while
listening to String Quartet No. 4 – Mov. 5/5 (Béla Bartók). David is a
sophomore at South Burlington High School.
Alexandra Booth, of South Londonderry and an incoming senior at Keystone School, says she has always enjoyed writing. She says it’s “something that I intend on doing for the rest of my life."
Katy Turner, a summer intern at Young Writers Project and a sophomore at SUNY Purchase, explains why Vermont’s climate is just right for her and how it inspires her to write.
Margaret Slate, a sophomore at Peoples Academy in Morrisville, says, "Writing comes so naturally and flows easily when I’m feeling strongly about something.”
Sossina Gutema, a junior at Essex High School, says, “Writing, for me, is the candid expression of the emotions which sometimes I don’t even know I have."