If you're a young person in foster care and you like the idea of writing stories that will help your peers, Represent may be the place for you.

Represent writers get published online and in a print magazine that's distributed nationally. The magazine gives young people in care a place to speak out about their experiences and tell their stories. The writers also learn how to be reporters. They conduct interviews and write news stories about things that are important to youth in care.   

Youth Communication's Summer Writing Workshop

We are no longer accepting applications for summer 2013. Check back in spring 2014 to apply next summer.

Summer workshop participants attend an intensive six-week program, and may write for either of Youth Communication’s two award-winning magazines: YCteen, by and for New York City high school students, or Represent, by and for young people in foster care.

School-Year Program

If you are interested in writing for Represent during the school year, you live in the New York City area, and you're between the ages of 14 and 21, please click here for more information and to apply.

If you live outside the New York City area, please click here to find out how our long-distance writing process works and to apply.

Questions? Contact Virginia Vitzthum at vvitzthum@youthcomm.org or 212-279-0708 ext. 112.