Any news about NC?
*any winners from North Carolina, to clarify.
@jdhfhabcdef someone from my school (nc) got jazz/voice!
@AsexualAnt LOL! YAY! MIDWESTERN GANGGG!!! Thatās awesome! What category did you submit to? 
I did short story 
@Lunarlitgend I did short story as well!! And poetry!
But my stuff is wack on a good day ( Iāve had people describe it as an āacid-tripā or a āfever dreamā ), and Iāve heard Youngarts is incredibly subjective, so weāll see if they liked it, I supposE.
Have any winners from the east coast been notified yet? (specifically Massachusetts)
Out of curiosity, what discipline did everyone apply under?
novel for me! i wanted to apply for visual arts too but i didnāt have enough cohesive pieces, so hopefully i can try next year
@inflorescent !!! Iām in the exact same boat (especially with the visual partāYoungArtsā size requirements are a nightmare). My hopes for finalist have pretty much deflated completely at this point, tho.
Out of curiosity, what genre is your novel? owo
@MPC4002 Novel! No idea whether Iāve been called (see earlier posts), but no email so far. :c
@MPC4002 I submitted a few of my illustrations in the Visual Arts category
Hold out hope! Not all finalists have been called yet!
@Tersina my novel is a fairytale retelling! I placed pretty well in a contest on Wattpad with it (the Open Novella 2019 contest) so I was hoping it would be good enough, but YoungArts seems to be more picky about genres and stuff. what about yours?
āFinalist calls along with confirmations will continue into next week. Then the Honorable Mention and Merit emails will be sent and the final winners list will be posted to our website the week of Thanksgiving. Hope this helps!ā ā posted by Youngarts twitter account 30 min ago!
Any West Coast finalists yet? Also, Creative Nonfiction has been super quiet lately so I donāt know if I should still be hopeful or notā¦ YoungArts actually needs to post the list because this wait is giving me anxiety. At least give me closure that I didnāt win!
I wish they had a system more similar to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Waiting for several weeks for a call/ email is so stressful!
@inflorescent Ooo, that sounds fantastic! From the novel readings posted on YouTube and a handful of articles/research, Iāve concluded that YoungArts does indeed seem to be biased toward lit fic and/or more personal stuff. :c
Mineās a very explicit original YA Fantasy that has gone through several workshops, critiques, and personal reviews but has never been submitted to any competitions. While Iāve been told (by both a published YA author and my peers) numerous times that my writing, world, story, and characters are compelling, I canāt help wavering between hoping itās good enough for Finalist and just hoping to be good enough to win anything.
(Iām also hoping to use this to fill up the āplatformā section of query letters and to validate my creative writing pursuits to my ED, which doesnāt help with my emotional state.)
I applied to poetry but Iām paranoid they sent out all the calls, so Iām hoping for HM/Merit : )
Plot twist: this whole notification system is one huge marketing scheme to drive organic traffic to their social media and website over the course of a couple weeks.
I mean, just looking at this forum aloneā3k+ views in the span of a dayāwould prove that this system does indeed drive a significant amount of traffic in a concentrated period of time.
(Donāt mind me, Iām just trying to ease my nerves.)
I also had at least two typos so Iām really praying that didnāt completely discredit my app
@Tersina Iām sure your writingās great! But I agree that YoungArts seems to lean very heavily toward more realistic types of stories.
If youāre looking for somewhere else to post your novel, have you tried Wattpad? At first, it looks kinda overrun with low-quality stories, but there are a ton of amazing novels (a lot of YA fantasy ones too!) if you dig a bit. Plus, the siteās just way more open toward more diverse genres, and there are tons of competitions (little community-hosted awards, an annual site-wide award, the open novella contest, etc).
Haha do you mean āEDā as in college?