Links

Looking for a place that provides tips to improve your writing? Want to share your work with others? How about entering a contest? Here are some great sites to plug you in to the writers' community.

 

Bookhooks An innovative and exciting forum to respond to the books you read at home or school. Their website encourages you to submit reviews, as well as stories, poems, drawings, and photography.

 

Creative Writing for Teens About.com has put together an excellent resource for teen writers. Not only will you find all kinds of tools to help you improve your book reviews, but you'll also find a list of blogs and online journals of interest to teens writers. From personal blogs of working writers and editors, to journals about language, news sites about publishing -- check it out!

 

KIdsWWwrite The web-zine for young authors and readers (16 and under) where you can read and write stories and poetry. KIdsWWwrite is a project of the Kalamalka Institute for Working Writers, a program of the Kalamalka Campus of Okanagan University College.

 

Places for Writers A comprehensive resource for Canadian writers and readers of Canadian writers. Within the site you will find daily updates of places to publish poetry and fiction, contests, literary news, book resources, websites for writers, locations of retreats, and resources for funding.

 

Teen Ink Teen Ink is a monthly print magazine, website and book series all written by teens for teens. There are over 16,000 pages of student writing on this site. You can also send your work to them. 

 

Teenreads.com  Teenreads.com is a US-based site that brings teens together to review and talk about books.

 

Word Warriors Press Dedicated to publishing edgy trade paperbacks by authors primarily in their late teens and early twenties, with a focus on those people and those stories not well represented in the mainstream. WWP seeks to empower, educate and entertain those whom society ignores.

 

Wordwrights Canada Student and Chapbook Contests Lists annual Canadian events related to writing contests for all ages, organized chronologically by deadline date. Also includes tips for student essay writers.

 

Youthink Any BC high-school student can send articles, poems, artwork, comic strips, cartoons, and jokes to Youthink magazine. Youthink also provides any student from a participating high school can apply for work experience or apply to become a regular writer.

 

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