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