Resources for teen writers

Books about writing and publishing

• Literary Market Place: lists publishers, agents, etc.

• Writer’s Market: agent and editor contact information, query letter clinics, and lots more

• Seize the Story by Victoria Hanley: all the basics of fiction writing

• Spilling Ink by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter: a guidebook to writing and revising

• Lots of other books with a call number starting 808 in our nonfiction area

Get published (in print)

• Cicada

• The Claremont Review

• Polyphony H.S. [high school only]

• Teen Voices [girls only]

• TeenInk

Get published (online) and connect with other teen writers

• Figment.com

• Inkpop.com

• Speculative fiction contests by deadline month

Local resources

• Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association

• Connecticut Young Writers Competition, organized by the Connecticut State University system

• Silvermine Arts Center sometimes offers creative writing workshops