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At the YoungArts Campus in Miami, FL for National YoungArts Week 2020.Learn more: youngarts.orgSubscribe to our email news: youngarts.org/enewsFollow us on F

https://youngarts.org/discipline/writing/
Apply for the YoungArts National Arts Competition, for writers ages 15-18. Creative nonfiction, novels, plays, scripts, poetry, short stories, and more. ... play or script, poetry, short story and spoken word. Get 2025 Updates Competition Eligibility. To be eligible, you must be able to answer "Yes" to these statements: ... this would be my

https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty-four/kaya-dierks-prose/
Kaya Dierks is a high school junior and aspiring novelist from San Francisco, California. She is a two-time YoungArts Finalist in writing and three-time YoungArts winner, a three-time Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Gold Medalist, and the recipient of an American Voices Medal. Her work has been recognized by Columbia College Chicago and The New York Times, and her writing appears in

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Reading "My Goddam Pink House"Learn more: youngarts.orgSubscribe to our email news: youngarts.org/enewsFollow us on Facebook: facebook.com/YoungArtsFoundatio

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/learning/the-winners-of-our-3rd-annual-personal-narrative-essay-contest-for-students.html
Published Jan. 20, 2022 Updated Jan. 25, 2022. For a third year, we invited students from 11 to 19 to tell us short, powerful stories about a meaningful life experience for our Personal Narrative

https://www.rethinkela.com/2014/05/40-excellent-short-stories-for-middle-school/
Mother and Daughter. " Mother and Daughter " by Gary Soto is a heartfelt short story that explores the complex dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship. Yollie, an intelligent and spirited teen, and her mother, Mrs. Moreno, a hardworking and devoted single parent, face life's challenges with resilience and humor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/learning/our-2020-21-writing-curriculum-for-middle-and-high-school.html
Our 2020-21 Writing Curriculum for Middle and High School. A flexible, seven-unit program based on the real-world writing found in newspapers, from editorials and reviews to personal narratives

https://www.publishyouth.com/post/kaya-dierks-youngarts-playwright-writer-dialogue-advice-celebrating-your-voice
This month publishYOUth spoke with Kaya Dierks, an acclaimed youth writer and playwright from California! As a two-time YoungArts Finalist and five-time Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National Gold Medalist, Kaya has incredible advice for crafting and sharing your stories. She was also a Writing Mentor & Intern with Writopia Lab, and a member of the esteemed 2020 Adroit Mentorship Cohort.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/teens-ya/_/N-29Z8q8Z19r4
QUICK ADD. Two Sides to Every Murder (Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Edition) by Danielle Valentine. QUICK ADD. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson. QUICK ADD. The Inheritance Games (Inheritance Games Series #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1004826113/the-writers-room-young-adult-fiction-and-social-media
For this installment of "The Writers' Room," we talk to three YA authors on the state of the genre and the communities that fuel it. Leigh Bardugo, E. Lockhart, and Adam Silvera join us for the

https://writers.com/short-story-submissions
Strange Horizons is a pioneer in speculative fiction and sci-fi. They are open for submissions on Mondays and Tuesday of each week (except in December), and they pay at a rate of 10¢ per accepted word. For many sci-fi writers, publication in Strange Horizons is a laudable achievement! 12. The Sun Magazine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_adult_literature
Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. Stories that focus on the challenges of youth may be further categorized as social or coming-of-age novels.. The earliest known use of term young adult occurred in 1942.

https://girlswritenow.org/resource/writing-contests/
NARRATIVE MAGAZINE A prize of $2,500 and publication in Narrative is given annually for a short story, a short short story, an essay, a memoir, or an excerpt from a longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction. A second-place prize of $1,000 is also awarded. The editors will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit up to 15,000

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/index
Choose a Story Starters theme: ADVENTURE. FANTASY. SCI-FI. SCRAMBLER. Scholastic's Story Starters kids' writing activity generates creative writing prompts, from general fiction to adventure, fantasy, and science fiction.

https://blog.reedsy.com/short-stories/
Over 1 million authors trust the professionals on Reedsy, come meet them. Reedsy Prompts is home to the largest short stories collection. Check out 25000+ stories by up & coming writers across the world. Choose the genre of your interest and start reading now from the largest online collection of handpicked short stories for free!

https://stackedbooks.org/free-ya-short-stories-online/
The Vermont College of Fine Arts has a strong children's literature MFA program, so that they have a journal of great free YA short stories online isn't a surprise. Some by YA authors you might know include " Do Not Go Gently " by Mindy McGinnis, " Honey and Cold Stars " by Amy Rose Capetta, " Love at First Book: A Story In Verse

https://medium.com/@pluzoo1/21-best-places-to-read-and-write-short-stories-online-984d8c12b848
Literally. It works as a publishing platform for 80 million and more users and of course, with a larger variety of stories to discover in all types. There's no place to get bored with Wattpad

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/13/1149016016/in-new-kid-a-black-seventh-grader-navigates-a-new-school
Jordan Banks, the protagonist of New Kid, is a seventh grade student who loves to draw and hopes to one day become a cartoonist. But the graphic novel following Jordan's arrival at a predominantly

https://www.slj.com/story/28-ya-nonfiction-titles-young-adult-teen-summer-reading-2021
The text focuses on German driver Rudi Caracciola, who drove for the Nazi-sponsored team, and "the outcast" French driver René Dreyfus, who was excluded from the German teams because he was Jewish. Also integral to the story is Lucy Schell, an American heiress who hired Dreyfus to drive her team's French Delahaye 145.

https://bookriot.com/find-free-short-stories/
Midnight Breakfast is a free online literary magazine that publishes short stories, essays, and nonfiction. They publish stories and ideas from diverse voices and are looking to "spark conversation" with "good friends over greasy food.". So if this at all intrigues you, check out their very eclectic catalogue of free stories.

https://www.newpages.com/young-writers-guide/young-writers-guide-to-publication/
Where young writers can find print and online literary magazines to read, places to publish their own works, and legitimate contests. Some publish only young writers, some publish all ages for young readers. For specific submission guidelines, visit the publication's website. Ages can include elementary, teen, or early college.

https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, empowering approach to creative writing. The challenge: draft an entire novel in just one month. For 30 wild, exciting, surprising days, you get to lock away your inner editor, let your imagination take over, and just create! Our Young Writers Program supports under-18 writers and K-12 educators as they

https://theyoungwriter.com/workshop-students/
And it is MUCH less expensive than other writing programs. The standard program is only $40/month if you pay annually. And you can go month-to-month for only $47. There's no long-term contract and you can cancel anytime with a few clicks. (You don't have to call us or jump through any hoops to end your membership).