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- Adventures in Writing - A web-zine for young authors. Resources from Janie Lynn Panagopoulos, historian, author, lecturer. Advice and information for parents, teachers, librarians, and students.
www.JLPanagopoulos.com
- Advice to Young Writers - An article by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
www.mzbfm.com/advice.htm
- Children Who Write - Written by children with writing resources included.
www.childrenwhowrite.com
- Childrens Express - A national news agency, where young people aged 8-18 produce articles on issues that are important to them but of interest to everyone.
www.childrens-express.org
- Creative Arts In Action - Writing club and workshops that help your child learn to love to write.
creativeartsinaction.com
- Creative Writing - Children aged 5-11 will find this page very useful in jumpstarting their creativity. A number of ideas which can be used as a stimulus for creative writing lessons.
www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/creative.htm
- Creative Writing for Teens - Find tips, a selection of young authors' works, plus creative writing and homework help. Archive only, currently no host for this topic at About.com.
teenwriting.about.com
- Dawn of Day - Young readers and writers club. Company promotes child authors.
www.dawnofday.com
- Fabulous Fiction - Creative writing, comics, and interactive activities for children. You write the story. Site artists will draw it. Collaborate on writing exercises with children from around the world.
www.fabfiction.com
- Fallout League of Adolescent Writers - Writing from all genres by people between the age of 13 and 21. Info about writing techniques and what makes good writing.
www.angelfire.com/ct/fallout
- Katharsis - The place for young writers on the Net. Writing exercises and articles about writing fiction and non-fiction.
www.katharsis.org
- Kids on the Net - A place where kids can post book reviews and opinion pieces, participate in interactive stories, and write cyberpoetry.
kotn.ntu.ac.uk/gokids.htm
- Kids Online Magazine - A how to for kids who write. Book reports, articles, spell checking and general tips. You can also submit your writing to the magazine.
www.kidsonlinemagazine.com/writingtips.html
- Kidscribe - A bilingual (Spanish/English) site for kid authors. Submit poetry and short stories to be published on the site.
web2.airmail.net/def
- Listen and Write - Provides poetry writing activities and interactive writing tools. Write your own poems and submit them for posting in the site Showcase. There are structured writing activities, audio poems that progress in difficulty and useful writing tips. From BBC Education.
www.bbc.co.uk/education/listenandwrite/home.htm
- Megan's Place - For artists and young writers.
www.atlanticus.com/megansplace
- Millennium Philcon Teen Conference - The conference, which has a science fiction and fantasy focus, will be held on Labor Day Weekend 2001 at the 59th WorldCon in Philadelphia, PA.
www.dpsinfo.com/2001/teens/index.html
- Monte Sol Workshop - Two-week summer writing workshop for high-school students, hosted by St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
www.montesolworkshop.org
- Mystical Dreamers - A website for writers, poets, and artists who want suggestions on their work or just see what other people have done.
www.angelfire.com/realm/mysticaldreamers/index.html
- National Young Writers Festival - A mailing list for the National Young Writers Festival held each year in Newcastle, Australia. Get involved by joining the list, which is also a good networking resource for emerging Australian writers.
groups.yahoo.com/group/nywf
- Oz Kidz in Print - Provides a forum for young Australian writers to produce works of literary quality with major cash awards for the winners.
www.ozkidz.com.au/index.htm
- Potluck Children's Literary Magazine - Publishes poetry, stories, book reviews and artwork from writers/ artists 8 - 16. Creative articles to help young writers expand their writing abilities.
www.potluckmagazine.org
- Practical Advice On Writing And Publishing For Young Writers - From Elizabeth Winthrop, author of more than forty books for children, including The Castle in the Attic and its sequel The Battle for the Castle.
www.absolute-sway.com/winthrop/advice.html
- Rejection Collection - Join your fellow writers and artists to laugh in the face of rejection.
rejectioncollection.com
- Scriptorium Scribbles - Practical advice on writing, publishing and finding new markets.
www.thescriptorium.net/youth.html
- Scripturient Youth - An offline magazine for writers under 21 years old.
www.angelfire.com/ma2/ScripturientYouth
- Suite101: Young Writers - A site for college and high school students interested in creative writing and writing for publication.
www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/young_writers
- Teen Writer Coffee Shop - For any teen who likes to write. Post your work, get help when you've got writers' block, or just hangout, relax and read others' work.
groups.yahoo.com/group/teenwritercoffeeshop
- Teen Writer's Dream - Teens may submit to TWD's print magazine or "poetically correct" anthologies. Site includes message boards and chat rooms.
www.teenwritersdream.com
- Teen Writers - A how to for teen writers. Feature articles and message board at Suite101. Archive of articles by Annie Peroutka.
www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/teen_writers
- Teen Writers - This is for any writing teens to share their writing with other people and talk about what they like.
groups.yahoo.com/group/teenwriters
- Teen Writers Network - Place to see or show-off other teen writers work. A Yahoo Club.
groups.yahoo.com/group/teenwritersnetwork
- TeenLit.com - TeenLit.com is dedicated to publishing teen writing, as well as book reviews by teenagers. Teachers and parents of adolescents will find useful information. Teen and teacher discussions, author home pages, and more
www.teenlit.com
- The e-Writer's Place - Home of the column Writer's of the next generation (for young writers). Useful market, links and articles for writers of all levels.
www.ewritersplace.com/index.html
- The Free Student - Improve your writing and have a voice with a national student newspaper.
www.thefreestudent.com/rsc/training/index.htm
- The Iowa Young Writers' Studio - A summer camp specifically for high school students who want to improve their writing. Intensive classes offered in poetry, fiction, and essay writing.
www.uiowa.edu/~iyws
- The Poised Pen - Resources and reference for young writers and information on writing workshops.
members.tripod.com/the_poised_pen
- The Teenage Writers Club - A community for teens who write and want to share tips and critiques.
groups.yahoo.com/group/theteenagewritersclub
- The Windows Project - Poetry workshops in schools and the community, advice on such workshops and assistance with writing.
www.windowsproject.demon.co.uk
- The Write Stuff - Creative writing club for aspiring authors and poets ages 13-23.
www.geocities.com/writestuffclub/TheWriteStuffClub.html
- The Writing Child - For writers mid-teen and under. Features monthly update zine (free) and monthly print newsletter. Markets, advice, articles.
www.thewritingchild.com
- The Young Authors Club - Club for young authors. The YAC has a monthly newsletter.
yac.mbonline.cc
- The Young Writers Club - "Aims to encourage children of all ages to enjoy writing as a creative pastime by getting them to share their work and help each other improve their writing abilities."
www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/derya/ywc.html
- When Teens Write - Owned and managed by teens. WTW publishes teen poetry, short stories, artwork, and journalism. Free email, live chat, and established mentors.
www.teenwriters.net
- Write With Joy - Tips and links for young writers. Includes information on Dr. Gregory's writer-in-residence school programs.
www.writewithjoy.com
- Writer's of Today - WOT has something for everyone, a free newsletter, weekly quizzes, writing references and more.
www.geocities.com/writersoftoday
- Writers' Inkorporated - Run by teen writers, critiqued by teen writers, written by teen writers. Get your work critiqued and publicized. Newsletter with articles about writing.
www.writersink.org
- WritersBBS - Writing forums in every category, including young adults (teen) poetry, critique, short fiction, script, tips, etc. join for free.
www.writersbbs.com
- Young Authors Network - Just for young writers, post your poems or stories or read other young peoples work.
www.teens-uk.com/YAN
- Young Authors Workshop - Children in grades 4 to 7 are taken through the writing process in a step-by-step fashion, beginning with how to find ideas for stories and continuing through finding online markets for publishing those stories.
www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/index.html
- Young People's Press Online - Hooking up young writers, keeping it real, getting folks published electrizonically and in print.
www.ypp.net
- Young Writer Online - An international magazine for young people's writing fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry. Writing features, tips and competitions.
www.mystworld.com/youngwriter
- Young Writers' Clubhouse - Encouragement for young writers by Deborah Morris, author of the Real Kids, Real Adventures series.
www.realkids.com/club.shtml
- Young Writers: Speculative Fiction Forum - Open forum for young writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Site provides the opportunity for writers to critique each other's work, and announces new markets and contests.
writers-bbs.com/inkspot/threads.cgi?forum=youngsf
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