Publishing Student Writing

Places to Publish Student Writing
Contributed by Laurie Stowell, Director, San Marcos Writing Project, CSU San Marcos

If your children want to go public with their writing, you'll find a number of possibilities in the following list.  You can also go to various search engines and type a search for “publishing student writing” or something similar for more possibilities.

Online

• English on line: http://english.unitecnology.ac/nz/

Go to the writer’s workshop and post student writing and/or respond to student writing from around the world.

• Scholastic: Kids are authors: www.scholastic.com/kidsareauthors
• International Reading Association–Student writing contests: www.reading.org

Do a site search.

• National Council of English Teachers–Student writing contests: http://www.ncte.org/parents/students/108196.htm
• Publishing students–created by a teacher, has tips and lots of links: http://www.publishingstudents.com
• Web English Teacher: http://webenglishteacher.com/publish.html

Has links to places that publish student, of all ages, writing.

• KidPub–children’s publishing: http://kidpub.org/kidpub/

Kids can post their own writing and read other’s writing.

• Student Publishing–A list of links that publish student writing: http://amphi.com/~pgreenle/EEI/studentpublish.html
• The Write Moves: http://www.unit5.org/cjhsimc/hotlists/writemoves.htm

A site that publishes student writing and links to other places to publish.

• Young Author’s Workshop: http://www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/Publish.html

Has a list of links to places that publish

• KidsCom: http://www.kidscom.com/create/write/write.html

Publishes on line

• Kid Authors: http://www.kidauthors.com
• Kid’s Haven: http://pages.sssnet.com/ohiobar/kids.html
• Creative Writing for Kids: http://www.creativewriting4kids.com
• Splatterbox Press: http://splatterbox.co.uk

Poetry website for children

• Young Poets: http://loriswebs.com/youngpoets

Publishes children’s poetry

Magazines

• Highlights for children
• Stone Soup: http://www.stonesoup.com/main2/printmagazines.html
• Crunch–An online magazine that publishes student writing: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/crunch
• Young Writer–The magazine for children with something to say: http://www.mystworld.com/youngwriter
• Merlyn’s Pen: http://www.merlynspen.org

This is a magazine that publishes pre-teens and teen’s writing.

Teacher Resources from Heineman

• Publishing with Students: A Comprehensive Guide (2002) by Chris Weber, Atkinson School, Oregon