Links!

Youth Writing Sites…

• Amazing Kids http://www.amazing-kids.org/
• (send them your fiction, non-fiction, and art)

  

• Amazing Kid Stories http://www.freewebs.com/amazingkidstories/index.htm
• (contests, interviews and free writing program)

 

• Girls Write Now http://www.girlswritenow.org/gwn/
• (mentor program matching high school girls with a working writer)

 

• Capitol City Young Writers http://www.capitolcityyoungwriters.com/
• (Meet authors, editors, literary agents in person! Apply to be an editor or writer for the Young Writers’ Literary Journal; plus mentorship opportunities and Quarterly Newseltter – fee to be a member)

• High School Journalism.org http://www.highschooljournalism.org/
• (journalism by high school students)

 

• John Hopkins Link to Academic Competitions http://cty.jhu.edu/
• (talent search for grades 5-6)

 

• Kids Space http://www.kids-space.org/index_main.html
• (share creative works/school projects; create stories from drawings in the gallery)

 

• Kids Turn Central http://www.kidsturncentral.com/links/writinglinks.htm
• (creative, mystery, essay & journal writing tips; grammar tips; dictionary/thesaurus links)

 

• KidWorld http://www.bconnex.net/~kidworld/CORN.html
• (jokes, contests and world-wide pen pals)

• Poetic License http://www.itvs.org/poeticlicense/index.html
• (poetry by youth, message boards)

 

• Real Kids http://www.realkids.com/home4.htm
• (meet kid authors; ask questions of a real author; join critique group)

•  Smart Writers http://www.smartwriters.com/content/blogcategory/87/57/
• (tons of great links to young writers’ sites for tips, contests and fun!)

 

• Stone Soup http://www.stonesoup.com/writing-by-children/
• (listen to young authors read their own stories on-line!; submit your own)

 

• Wacky Web Tales http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
• (like “Mad Libs” on-line: fill in the blanks and it creates a story for you!)

 

• Winning Writers Site for Students http://www.winningwriters.com/resources/ur_web_detail.php?subcategory_code=STUD
• (resources and contests for student writers)

 

• Word Dance http://www.worddance.com/
• (tips for writing haiku poems)

 

• Writing Conference http://www.writingconference.com/
• (services for children & young adults who love to read and write)

 

•  WritingKid  http://www.fundsforwriters.com/writingkid.htm 
• (Free newsletter for elementary thru college writers with great contests!)

 

• Writing With Writers http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm
• (great tips on different kinds of writing from real authors)

 

• Young Writer Magazine http://www.young-writer.co.uk/
• (full of tips, ideas and prizes)

 

• MysteryNet’s Kids Mysteries http://kids.mysterynet.com/
• (Read and write mysteries and scary stories)

 Any cool sites you’d like us to see? Post them here!