Submit to the Salt Lake Young Writers 2025 Anthology!

Original short stories (no fanfiction), short memoirs and other short nonfiction (no academic writing), poetry, visual art, and photography included photos of three dimensional art are accepted. 

Written submissions can be up to 2,500 words and may not contain hate speech. 

All Utah-based youth ages 12-19 in middle school, junior high, and high school are welcome to submit. Submission deadline is October 25th, 2025.

Work must be submitted along with signed Publication Writer Consent Release available here: 2025 CWC Writer Consent Form.

Please email daniel.baird@slcc.edu with any questions.

For more information and to view previous anthologies see the following website: Salt Lake Young Writers Webpage

Community Writing Center: The Last Publication: We have published more than 4000 pages of your creations over the last 24 years. Here is your chance to be published with your community before we shut our doors for good. Give us what you got.  Looking for all types of human artifacts that can be put into print: words, pictures, and other forms of communicating symbols are accepted.  ( Max Word Count: 2500 )
 

NOTE: If you are a member of one or more of the CWC's Community Writing Series groups, you are strongly encouraged to submit a piece or pieces you've been working on with your writing groups.
 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 11:59 p.m. on January 1, 2026

Check out the 2025 edition below for some inspiration! 

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If you have any questions or comments please contact, elisar.soueidi@slcc.edu