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Cyberteens

An online community for young people from all over the world who share their thoughts and ideas with each other.

Diaspora Dialogues’ Young Writers Wiki

Explore, create or edit topics that are relevant to young writers ages 25 and under. Check out their Writers Web, which contains resources for writers of all ages.

FARP: Fantasy Art Resource Project

A guide for fantasy artists and writers with many writing tutorials. Topics could be everything from the history of fantasy art to art materials, techniques, photos references, and so on.

inkpop

Connect with other teen writers, read and vote on what others write, talk about novels, poetry or a book you love or write a post for the community. Make the Top Pick list and your writing will be read by a HarperCollins editor.

Insight:  Because Life is Full of Decisions

Articles, advice and and annual writing contest to make you famous. Or not.

Junior Writer’s Guild

This site is dedicated to the ancient art of writing. It is a sanctuary for young writers between 12-20 as well as a gallery for their work. Reviews, suggested readings and submissions.

Lightning Bug

Provides a writing partner to help you write a story from beginning to end. Find a story, develop a story, finish a story.

Merlyn’s Pen

YA fiction by and for young adults.

Mibba

Mibba is a creative site designed for young authors to share their stories and poems and gain feedback from a growing audience.

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program

It is a fun, seat-of-your-pants novel writing event where the challenge is to write an entire novel in just 30 days. That means participants begin writing November 1 and must finish by midnight, November 30. The word-count goal for our adult program is 50,000 words, but our Young Writers Program allows participants who are 17 years old and younger to set reasonable, yet challenging, word-count goals.

One Teen Story

One Teen Story is a new literary magazine that connects teens to great short stories. Subscribe, enter a contest, submit a story.

Pen Strokes

Writing contest for Durham District School Board students in Grades 1 through 12.

Polyphony H.S.

A student-run national literary magazine for high school writers and editors. They strive to build respectful, mutually beneficial, writer-editor relationships that form a community devoted to improving students’ literary skills in the areas of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

Pomegranate Words

Monthly poetry and fiction writing contests, workshops and critiques.

Pongo Teen Writing

For teens who are in jail, on the streets, or in other ways leading difficult lives to express themselves through poetry.

Quizzilla: Imagine it, Create it, Share it

Quizzes, stories, polls, poems, lyrics

re:verse: a zine for young poets

Editorials, poems, reviews and articles. Opportunities for submissions.

Skipping Stones

A non-profit magazine for youth that encourages communication, cooperation, creativity anbd celebration of cultural and environmental  richness. It provides a playful forum for sharing ideas and expereiences among youth from different countries and cultures.

Speak Up Press

Young adults * Loud and Clear. Writing by and for young adults. Benefits youth by giving teens a voice and supporting adolescent literacy. Speak Up Press believes that teen literacy blossoms with the power of authentic voice.

Teen Ink: A Teen Literary Magazine

Magazine, website and books written by teens. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hot topics, forums, opinion, reviews, newsletter, articles, contest.

Teen Voices

Supports and educates teen girls to amplify their voices and create social change through media. Feature articles, reviews, action, girls in action, fiction and poetry.

The Blue Pencil Online

Seeks to publish the best of literary work in English by young writers(12-18) around the world.

The Claremont Review: the international magazine of young adult writers

Most of the work they publish is by Canadians, but they welcome submissions from 13-19 year olds from anywhere in the English speaking world. Also provides resources.

The Four Cornered Universe

A digital literary magazine that is dedicated to publishing high quality fiction, poetry, and essays.

The Young Writer’s Club

A forum for writing by young people.

The Young Writers Society

Community forums, news, articles, reviews and resources including 101 Tips for Writers.

Wet Ink

An arts magazine for and by Canadian Youth. Wet Ink is open and happy to accept all genres of literature, visual art and multimedia from youth aged 13 – 19 in Canada.

What If? Magazine

A print magazine featuring excellent creative work from Canadians 19 years of age and under.

Young Authors Guide

Guide where young authors can find a place to publish their writing.

Young Poets

Poems, articles, markets and contests for young poets.

Young Writers Online

A community of young writers, both new and experienced, dedicated to improving their writing. The Community Forum, for general site, literary, and off-topic discussion. The Writing Forum, for submitting writing and critiquing things posted by other members. Plus the chatroom, contests, exercises, and more!

Youth Voices

A meeting place where students share, distribute and discuss their digital work online.