Young Adult writing prompts

YA lives in first feelings — first betrayal, first power, first knowledge that adults are guessing too. Pick a prompt and write toward the moment your character decides who they are.

1. A new girl at school is the only one who can see the building's old wing, which was demolished forty years ago.
2. Three best friends find out one of them has been deleted from every photo on every phone.
3. A teenager wins a creative writing competition with a story she swears she didn't write.
4. The school's lost property cupboard starts returning things the owners never lost.
5. A boy band's biggest fan realises one of the singers has been replaced.
6. A summer camp counsellor recognises a camper from a recurring dream.
7. The student council president starts receiving threats signed by next year's student council president.
8. A school trip to a museum ends with one student in an exhibit.