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Summer Reading Contest, Week 9: What Got Your Attention in The Times This Week?
To participate, submit your response here by Aug. 8 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced by Aug. 19.
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Teach Writing With The New York Times: Our 2025-26 Curriculum
Our eight writing units are based on real-world features like reviews, opinion essays, narratives, podcasts, photo essays and more.
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‘I Was a Small, Sticky God of Summer’: The Week 6 Winner of Our Summer Reading Contest
Joel Raj, 17, writes about a messy peach dessert by Yotam Ottolenghi that called him back to the “chin-dribbling freedom” of his childhood.
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Our 2025-26 Student Contest Calendar
Eight challenges that invite teenagers to engage, experiment, reflect and create — via writing, photography, audio, video and more.
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Friendship: Teen Writing and Art That Celebrates Connection
Photos, videos, essays, stories and podcasts made by young people that explore the nuances of what it means to have and to be a friend.
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A school year’s worth of short, accessible image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of writing.
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We invited teenagers to create an original five-minute podcast about almost anything. Listen to some of the winning podcasts selected from over 1,600 submissions.
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Students are invited to tell us what they’re reading in The Times and why, this year in writing OR via a 90-second video. Contest dates: June 6 to Aug. 15, 2025.
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ContestsSummer Reading Contest, Week 8: What Got Your Attention in The Times This Week?
To participate, submit your response here by Aug. 1 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced by Aug. 12.
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This word has appeared in 17 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Ayesha Afghan, 16, writes that President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is “a direct threat to the lives of children.”
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