For Young Writers

Being short led naturally into being a writer for me. [Paul Fleischman]

Me too. And I wasn't just short. I was klutzy. I was terrible at sports. So I did what I knew I could do. I wrote. It still took me a long time before I realized I was a writer. If you write often, because you feel like writing, you're a writer. It's that simple.

 

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Here's a portrait of me

by a student at Park Avenue School, Aztec NM. Some people draw as naturally as others write.















 

 

 

 

 

 

©2006 Uma Krishnaswami

 

 

 

Young people ought to have lots of opportunities to write about about whatever they want to–whatever moves them or makes them laugh or get angry or want to change the world. I think adults in power need to hear young voices loud and clear whenever they make decisions about education, or health care, and especially when they decide to go to war.

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Children's author Aaron Shepard's web site has a special page for Young Authors

Here's a link to an international K-12 poetry and art contest, River of Words

Skipping Stones is a multicultural magazine that accepts submissions from both adults and children/youth aged 8-16