Today’s Teen Tuesday market is YARN, Young Adult Review Network.
YARN is a four-year-old literary journal that publishes original short fiction, poetry, and essays for young adult readers. It’s a nonpaying market open to teens and adults, and they run at least one contest a year with gift card prizes. For example, they just held a Fall Treats Contest.
YARN is a four-year-old literary journal that publishes original short fiction, poetry, and essays for young adult readers. It’s a nonpaying market open to teens and adults, and they run at least one contest a year with gift card prizes. For example, they just held a Fall Treats Contest.
Their writing guidelines are available online.
What’s the best way to get published in YARN? Editor Kerri Majors advises: “Submit the best story on your hard drive, the story that's been workshopped and revised and polished and proofread (twice!). Also: Got an essay? Check out the narrative, creative essays we've already published and ask yourself if you have a real-life story you'd like to tell. We don't get nearly enough nonfiction submissions, so it's a much faster way to get noticed.”
| If you need a writing prompt to get you started, Kerri has one about everyone's favorite day of the week:  | WRITING PROMPT: Rebecca Black, Katy Perry, The Cure—they’ve all sung songs about Friday. And we love to sing along. Now it’s your turn to pay homage to this special day of the week. Write an essay about something that really happened to you on a Friday, or make up a story about an outrageous Friday, or pen your own poem-song about the day. Whatever you do, make sure that Friday as a day of the week, a theme, or even an epic, permeates your piece from start to finish. |
For more writing advice, check out Kerri’s book for teen writers: This Is Not a Writing Manual: Notes For the Young Writer in the Real World. "The book is a memoir of my own writing life, in which I tell stories about the lessons I learned in high school and college that stood me in good stead for many years to come. When I sat down to write it, I asked myself, ‘What do I wish I'd known about the writing life when I was fifteen and working on short stories in my spare time?’ Then I wrote the book to answer that question,” Kerri says. “I'll condense a bit here, though: The writing life is long and rewarding in many ways *other* than publication. If you want to be a writer, ignore the seductive but ultimately misleading stories of overnight success (writers like Stephanie Meyer), and instead take the long view. Focus on improving your craft over time, indulging your love of words, and finding a paying job that nurtures your creative side.”
Thank you, Kerri! Here are the YARN submission guidelines: yareview.net/how-to-submit. Good luck, writers!
Kerri Majors is the editor of YARN, and author of This is Not a Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World (Writer's Digest Books, July 2013).
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