@Lunarlitgend Aw, sweet! What genre? owo
@Tersina My genre is fantasy and my audience is young adult (no surprise there). Iām in the middle of the editing process right now and have been for a while. My issue is word count and itās something Iāve been working on cutting down.
How about you? 
iām from california and i got the call (not for CNF though) yesterday, if that helps at all
Has any visual artist in NY been notified yet? (if so, congrats!!!)
Honestly I am not even expecting anything lol, a merit will do me justice haha
Iāve been busy with school, but for anyone whoād like to know about my typo - I typed āstrinkingnessā instead of āstrikingnessā slaps forehead
I entered in poetry and wrote one about womanhood and the moon, one about gun violence, and one about loss of innocence. Iām pretty sure I know a lot of you on this thread (and I wave to the three lurking friends who know exactly who I am), but you guys are getting my hopes up with the fact that a typo might not equal a loss. Good luck to everyone who is not yet a confirmed finalist 
also @ashymustard I know a fair amount of college people who have entered and/or won Youngarts, so other than winning US Presidential Scholar of the Arts youād still qualify for everything else.
@Tersina Sure!
wattpad: infiorescent
nanowrimo: efflorescence
Iām trying to stay positive about the work that I did for my visual arts submission, but I feel like my essay was to personal or not good enough. Trying not to loose hope though even though this has been the most stressful week ever lol :neutral:
Congratulations, @winterbourne ! What is your genre?
So it sounds like we have at least SEVEN finalists on this thread:
@pandaberry, @quisquillosa, @bluets in Short Story.
@beautifulchaos in poetry
@jollyballoon in Theatre.
@bassman81 in Music.
ā¦and @winterbourne!
Congratulations to all and letās keep this party going!
@BookLvr thank you! i entered in writing/poetry
When do yāall think calls will start going out today?
The earliest call Iāve heard of so far is around 1 in the afternoon.
(As you can see, my nerves are growing each day-)
1 eastern time?
Do you guys think all finalist calls have gone out? I havenāt seen a finalist in photography yet, and thatās the genre I applied in, along with poetry, but I donāt have much hope for poetry. I wish they would just release the list instead of this nonsense 
@Imshreyads
Iām not sure. It was the friend of someone on this thread. They were notified for Theatre, I believe.
@shysquid I doubt it! This is only day 3, and last night YA replied to a comment on Twitter about how notifications and confirmations will continue into next week!
I havenāt heard of any photography winners yet, though.
Has anyone received anything today? Somehow it seems most notifications are out. It seems that way
did emails for finalists go out at the same time?
I also applied for photography (havenāt heard anything or seen any finalists yet) and poetry. In terms of poetry, Iām starting to lose hope to be honest. Just from this forum and then social media, there are already 5 poetry finalists. One year they had only 2 poetry finalists, so Iām thinking that 5 is probably all there is, but then again who can really be sure. I have no idea if YoungArts is actually continuing the calls into next weekā¦ FINGERS CROSSES FOR PHOTOGRAPHY THOUGH
This is probably a weird and stupid question but do students who go to arts based high schools usually have a higher chance of getting picked?
Has anyone gotten a call today?
I just called them because Iām a nervous wreck. A YoungArts representative said that she was actually in the middle of calling people right now, and it takes so long because it takes a while to get confirmation from all the finalists and to reach them. I asked if they have a āB-listā that they ask if the A-list canāt make it, and she said yes! Try to stay calm and donāt be too nervous, but all hope for finalist is not lost yet!