Tampa Bay Area Writing Project
Nurturing a community of writers, young and old, novice and expert, students and teachers.
Our final winner from the 2nd Annual TBAWP Youth Writers Conference comes from the High School Write-Ahead Poetry Contest where participants were asked to write about the topic of conformity in a poem that played with form. We called it…
Read More Pages by Madeleine James, Winner of High School Write-Ahead Poetry
For our Middle School Short Story contest, we took a little inspiration from Bon Jovi and asked writers to give us a story that included the words "You're halfway there..." Our winning story, is far from living on a prayer.…
Read More One Bad Nightmare by Cameron Brown, Winner of Middle School Write-Ahead Short Story
Below is the winner of our Middle School Poetry Write-Ahead Contest, Nature of the Earth by Lindsay Paulson. This category asked entrants to create a Found Poem. Nature of the Earth by Lindsay Paulson One can see no thing as beautiful…
Read More Nature of the Earth By Lindsay Paulson, Winner of Middle School Write-Ahead Poetry
For our Elementary Short Story Write-Ahead competition we asked our youth writers to "write a short story about the grossest thing you ever witnessed (or heard about) at school. Here’s the trick: don’t just gross me out. You have to…
Read More Yuck! by Muryum Firoz Winner of the Elementary Short Story Write-Ahead Contest
Below is the winner of our Elementary Poetry Write-Ahead Contest, Recess Time by Sarah Henderson. The competition prompt asked students to consider how "slides, swings, and monkey bars, literary devices are a writer’s playground. Write a poem about an actual playground…
Read More Recess Time by Sarah Henderson, Winner of Elementary School Poetry Write-Ahead Contest
The 2019 TBAWP Youth Writers Conference yesterday was a huge and resounding success! Just look at some of our authors and attendees gushing on twitter! There were more, but you get the idea! The day was also a success for…