@noodley where did you see the notification on Facebook? Thank you! And congrats to all the finalists already announced here, that’s awesome!!
Ahhhhh I’m starting to lose hope for Visual Arts- how many VA finalists have been called already? ?
only heard one so far. and no DA.
I dmed youngarts earlier specifically about writing finalists and they gave the typical response that finalists of all disciplines will be notified into next week so no new info there 
just making wild excuses to continue my hoping at this point
@cinnamonwords mood lmao
the fact that whoever runs youngarts’ twitter is currently searching their indirects and replying to them makes me laugh
They say that they still have “a lot of winners to notify” — I think that implies all finalists have been called, right? (bc winners refers to honorable mention/merit right?)
I’m too addicted to this thread I have been checking it every 5 minutes…
um someone on twitter said that youngarts is sending out emails already (not sure if they meant finalist emails?) .and someone said their artist statement might have been trash…idk if that’s actually for arts but i didn’t do anything like that for writing
@MusicLover1817 My friend applied for VA, and the artist statement is for that section (though possibly also for DA or music, I don’t know much about those areas). None needed for writing 
Still checking to see if anyone has heard anything on Jazz Music? Congratulations @liketheword to you and your brother!
@writingbiokid thanks i had a mini heart attack for a second there haha.
@MusicLover1817 Just checked, OP said in replies that they intended to say “calls”, so it’s still good!
@Inlosangeles I just searched on Facebook youngarts
do you think they are done calling people for the day?
did they even call anyone in the first place?
@catcreature293 one on twitter, one on fb, two calls today.
God they are really just dragging us along
chat dead today lol how is everyone —anyone do anything fun? any books movies or musicians I should check out?
Watch Kubo and the Two Strings and also all the animated Star Wars shows
Listen to Shostakovich to relieve your angst (or heighten it, either way it’s something)
I would recommend Danse Macabre by Stephen King (it’s nonfiction). Fascinating stuff!