 Deadline is March 13 If you have story under 1000 words written and ready to submit, consider this contest sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. To enter, you must be 18 or under. There is no entry fee. The first-place winner will be get bragging rights and publication in an upcoming issue of their magazine, Imagine. The deadline is this Friday, March 13, at 5 pm EST. For more information and complete guidelines, visit the Creative Minds Fiction Contest website. Good luck!
If you live near Drew University in Madison, NJ, or will be visiting the area this summer, check out the teen writing summer intensives from The Writers Circle. They offer three week-long sessions during July and August dedicated to teen writers. I'm pleased to be a guest speaker during the second week, leading a revision workshop. For more information, including registration and a complete schedule, visit The Writers Circle website.
Here's a roundup of interesting links and blog posts I came across this week. 
Olivia Rivers has an excellent blog post, "Learning From Other Writers," at Teens Can Write, Too. Her ideas about learning from the novels you read can benefit writers of all ages. 
Teen Arts Festival to be held in Summit, NJ
The Teen Arts Festival is a free 2-day event held at Summit High School (125 Kent Place Boulevard in Summit, NJ) on April 17 and April 18. Students in grades 6-12 from the participating schools in Berkeley Heights, Mountainside, New Providence, and Summit, NJ are eligible to enter. March 13th is the deadline for Creative Writing and Videos. March 27 is the deadline for Visual and Performing Arts. Check the website for more information and entry guidelines. (Thanks to Kathy Temean for bringing this to my attention.)  For nonfiction writers, Lisa Rowan has compiled nuggets of wisdom from the #AdviceForYoungJournalists hashtag in her recent article, Writing Advice: What You Can Learn From #AdviceForYoungJournalists.  To help plan your writing, try this Pacemaker program. It allows you to enter goal-related information like start and end days, your approach (steady, more intense at beginning or end, etc.) and customized workloads on specific dates. It can be used for a variety of writing projects. Happy Writing!
Teen writers: If you ever wanted to write a letter to your parents telling them something you wished that they realized about your life, then this nonfiction essay contest from YCteen is for you!  When: By March 27, 2015 Who: 14 - 19 year olds What: Nonfiction essays up to 800 words Win: 1st prize $150, 2nd $75, 3rd $50 Rules: Complete guidelines are available at the YCteen website. Good luck!
The National Federation of Press Women sponsors an annual communications contest for high school students. Categories include: Editorial, Opinion, News Story, Feature Story, Sports Story, Columns or Blogs, Feature Photo, Sports Photo, Cartooning, Review, Graphics/Photo Illustration, Single-Page Layout, Double-Truck Layout, Environment, Radio Prepared Report, Radio or Television Interview or Talk Show, Video News Story, Video Feature Story, Video Sports Story, Yearbook Layout, Yearbook Photo, and Yearbook Copywriting. 
The contest rules are too long to post here, so please visit the NFPW contest website for more information. The entry fee is $10 and the national first place winners receive $100. The deadline for entry is February 28, 2015. Good luck! Next Tuesday: another contest for teen writers
During 2014, I profiled several websites for teen writers and journals that publish teen writing. To start off 2015, here are some updates:  Teens Can Write, Too has recently partnered with the teen writing conference, Ch1Con, and they've added several teenage guest writers. More information is available at the TCWT website. Thanks to John Hansen for the update. You can read my original interview with John at Teen Tuesday: Avoid Condescending Advice.  Macklemore visits Pongo Ann Teplick let me know that Pongo "is in a new stage of growth with many wonderful things happening." You can visit the Pongo website for more information. You can also check my previous post at Teen Tuesday: The Time is Now for Pongo Teen Poetry.  One Teen Story news: Patrick Ryan, Editor-in-Chief says, "Our contest judge this year was Tara Altebrando -- author of The Battle of Darcy Lane and The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life -- and our winner is 16-year-old Lily Dodd, who's written an awesome confessional story called 'Eulogy for Pretzel' (which we'll be publishing in May). We'll also be publishing more teen authors in the near future, so stay tuned!" Patrick provides writing advice at Teen Tuesday: Write Like a Rabbit, Revise Like a Turtle.  YARN (Young Adult Review Network) news: 2015 brings a new Spring edition and their first ever Summer edition. YARN is also celebrating its 5th anniversary this year. To read an interview with Kerri Majors, YARN's Editor, visit Teen Tuesday: Get Published in YARN Literary Journal. Next Tuesday: Upcoming contest for teen writers.
Last year, I profiled several websites for teen writers and journals that publish teen writing. I'm starting 2015 with updates to those interviews. (Last Tuesday featured Canvas Literary Journal in case you missed it.) This week's update is for Cicada Magazine, which is currently hosting a contest with a January 31st deadline. (Details below.)  Cicada Magazine is a paying market that publishes teen writers. You can read a previous Q&A with the Associate Editor at Teen Tuesday: Interview with Anna Neher of Cicada Magazine. Anna had these Cicada updates to share: "January's a crazy exciting time at CicadaHQ. Our annual Best of The Slam is out, featuring top poetry & fiction from our online writing forum for ages 14-23. On right now at The Slam: our Into the Woods fairy tale zine project. Folks looking for fairy tale story ideas can play with our Fairy Tale Plot Machine. It's completely addictive. If you love animals (and who doesn't??), you should submit to our Call for Creative Endeavors: Animals contest. Deadline: January 31. We'll be launching a new Creative Endeavors theme on February 2, so check back! I can tell you a thousand things about how smart, passionate, kind, nerdy, and fun the confederacy of Cicadaphiles is, but I'm going to let a couple of the Slammers do it for me: 'Welcome to ze slam! *squints owlishly* we're all mad here …' --Nick 'We are many, but we are strong, and we enjoy writing down the things that other people are scared to think about.' --kimmie66" Thanks, Anna, for sharing Cicada's news!
Teen writers -- check back next Tuesday for more writing updates.  I usually feature teen writing posts on Tuesdays, but I came across this contest from the Leyla Beban Young Authors Foundation with an upcoming deadline of February 1st. This contest is for students in grades 6-12 and the main requirement is that the story be *exactly* 1000 words. First prize is $1000 and publication in their literary journal, Bluefire. More details are available on the Bluefire website.
If you can't make the deadline or have a story that doesn't meet the 1000-word requirement, consider submitting to the Bluefire blog, which accepts submissions all yearlong. Good luck and happy writing!  Canvas Literary Journal Last January, I featured an interview with Canvas Literary Journal, a market that publishes teens. I checked in with them to see what's new and they are currently running a comedy writing contest with two cash prizes ($20 for first and $10 for second) along with publication in their spring issue. The deadline is February 24. Here's what their literary board has to say about the contest: "From the publication of the Winter issue until the submission cutoff for the Spring issue, Canvas Literary Journal will be running a contest for humorous literature. Any kind of humor (wordplay, satire, just plain absurdity, etc.) and any medium (story, poem, play, etc.) will be accepted. Pieces awarded first place, second place, and any honorable mentions will be published in the Spring 2014 issue of Canvas." Check the Canvas website for more information about entry details and contest prizes. Thank you to Canvas Literary Journal for the update. Good luck and happy writing!
 Thanks to author Jacqueline Jules for including my Pandemic-inspired writing prompts on her Pencil Tips blog. Check them out here.
I am taking a brief blogging break for the Thanksgiving holiday. I hoping to be on the Internet less and writing more. Happy Thanksgiving! |
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