Why Reading Matters

Writing Rubric

Creative Writing Syllabus

Publishing and Writing Contest Web Sites

All links below are good as of August 18, 2015.  Most links are to print publications, but some sites also accept submissions for an online version of their publication as well. Click around if you like what you see. Find out what kind of writing they like. Do you like to write in that genre, too? Check for any submission deadlines and age or gender requirements to see if you qualify.

Publisher or contest	Publication or contest web address	Submission guidelines web address
The Adroit Journal	http://www.adroit.co.nr	http://www.theadroitjournal.org/general-submissions/
Aerie International	https://aerieinternational.wordpress.com	https://aerieinternational.wordpress.com/submissions-2013/
Amazing Kids Magazine	http://mag.amazing-kids.org	http://mag.amazing-kids.org/get-involved/write-for-us/
The America Library of Poetry	http://www.libraryofpoetry.com/index.html	http://www.libraryofpoetry.com/rules.html
Anthology of Poetry	http://www.anthologyofpoetry.com	http://www.anthologyofpoetry.com/index.php/resources/submit-your-poem-or-short-story.html
The Blue Pencil	http://thebluepencil.net	https://thebluepencil.submittable.com/submit
BRICKrhetoric	http://brickrhetoric.org	http://brickrhetoric.org/submit/
Canvas	http://canvasliteraryjournal.com	http://canvasliteraryjournal.com/submit/
Cicada Magazine	http://www.cicadamag.com	http://www.cicadamag.com/submitwork
The Claremont Review	http://www.theclaremontreview.ca/	http://www.theclaremontreview.ca/#!writing-submissions/c1bm7
Creative Kids	http://www.ckmagazine.org	http://www.ckmagazine.org/submissions/
KIdsWWwrite	http://kalwriters.com/kidswwwrite/index.html	http://kalwriters.com/kidswwwrite/write.html
Launchpad Magazine	http://www.launchpadmag.com	http://www.launchpadmag.com/write/
National High School Poetry Contest	http://www.highschoolpoetrycontest.com/	http://www.highschoolpoetrycontest.com/to_enter
New Moon	http://newmoon.com	http://newmoon.com/how-to-get-published-new-moon-girls/
One Teen Story	http://www.oneteenstory.com/index.php?kill_session=1	https://www.oneteenstory.com/index.php?page=submit
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards	http://www.artandwriting.org	http://www.artandwriting.org/the-awards/how-to-submit
Scribblitt	http://scribblitt.com	http://scribblitt.com/currentcompetition
Skipping Stones	http://www.skippingstones.org/	http://www.skippingstones.org/submissions.htm
Stone Soup	http://www.stonesoup.com	http://www.stonesoup.com/stone-soup-contributor-guideline/
Teen Ink Magazine	http://teenink.com/	http://www.teenink.com/submit
The Telling Room	http://www.tellingroom.org	http://www.tellingroom.org/publishing
WriteIt	http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/	http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/pubhome.asp
The Writers’ Slate	http://writingconference.com/index.html	http://writingconference.com/submission_guidelines.htm
Young Writers Magazine	http://www.youngwritersmagazine.com	http://www.youngwritersmagazine.com/submission-guidelines/

Also go to http://www.newpages.com/npguides/young_authors_guide.htmfor links to at least fifty other publications and contests for high school student writing. (Some of that site’s links are dead, but more are good.) Here’s another good list, though with fewer publications: http://www.tellingroom.org/get-published/places-publish.