Young Adults Writing Prompts

Write a scene where someone is trying to convince their new partner's friends that they are a good match.

What tactics might someone use to convince people they're a good match?

Your protagonist is a free-spirited traveller who has always lived minimalistically. One day they start casual work at an opulent mansion.

Create a narrative from this character's perspective, where they find absurd and laughable features of this luxurious house.

Create a Sci-Fi narrative where two teenagers from feuding families fall in love.

How will you write this Shakespearean trope into a Sci-Fi world? What kind of place do these people live in to have families at war?

'Amelia took a deep breath, and pushed open the door to her 20-year high school reunion.'

Continue the story...

Write a poem centred around the theme of destruction.

Write a short story that exemplifies how good things can come from a tragedy.

Your protagonist has noticed strange symbols tattooed on their friend's skin that seem to move and change...

Write a story or poem which could be titled ‘Diamond in the Rough’.

What themes might this phrase bring to mind?

Write a story about an eccentric scientist who wants to start using their lab partners as test subjects for an experimental and potentially lethal treatment.

Write a descriptive paragraph about something that immediately takes you back to your childhood — such as a song, a sound, or a certain smell.

A woman falls for a charming con artist, and slowly realises she's being dragged into his schemes...

Write a poem that compares the different patterns on butterfly wings to the complexities of human relationships.