Writing for Children's Magazines
An Ezine
 

 
  Market Tidbits for November 2015  

by Evelyn B. Christensen

 

 

 

Call for Submissions

We're needing articles for Writing for Children's Magazines. If you have the time and an idea, I encourage you to develop it and send it my way. I will also consider reprints, if you have the rights; just include where the piece was originally published. Submission guidelines are here. With the new year, I'll probably need to switch the ezine's publication schedule to quarterly, instead of bi-monthly, if I don't have more submissions.


Additions to the Adult Writers' List

Lilybell Magazine is a new digital magazine for girls ages 7-12, who are smart, creative, and curious about the world around them, but are not trying to grow up too fast. This is a paying market. Check here for writer guidelines. I'm excited that the editor-in-chief, Sara Hilton, has provided us additional insights into this publication through an interview for this issue of Writing for Children's Magazines. Check it out here.

Story Monsters Ink is a "subscription-based digest that gives parents and educators the latest news about award-winning and debut books, profiles on both renowned and newly published authors, upcoming book events, author presentations and more." Digital subscriptions are free; the print version is available for a fee. This market for book reviews and articles is non-paying, except for a t-shirt.


Additions to the Young Writers' List

Canvas Teen Literary Journal is published quarterly in print, ebook, web, video, and audio formats. It's written by, and for, young people ages 13-18. Submission guidelines for writing and for art are here. This does not appear to be a paying market.

Story Monsters Ink (see above) is looking for book reviews written by kids and will also consider poems, articles, and stories by kids, if submitted by a teacher. Submission guidelines are here.


Submission Guidelines

• I requested submission guidelines and, on September 10th, received the attached information from the editor of Animal Tales and Girls' World regarding submitting to these two magazines.

Highlights has recently changed the maximum word counts on submissions. Check out the new limits.


Theme Update

Guardian Angel Kids has posted new themes as of October 27th.


Blog Series

If you're wanting to try to get a first non-fiction piece published in a children's magazine, Nancy Sanders (author of the book, Yes! You Can Learn How to Write Children's Books, Get Them Published, and Build a Successful Writing Career) has been doing a helpful blog series entitled "Nonfiction for Children's Magazines," in which she invites you to go through the steps with her to prepare and write a NF piece for a children's magazine. It's sort of like a free mini online writing workshop.


This and That

Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine is currently closed to submissions.

Zamoof, a kids' health magazine, has changed its name to Bazoof so it can be further up on alphabetical magazine lists.

GREYstone does not appear to be taking submissions currently. Their submission guidelines page has disappeared.


Discontinued

Bop--the teen magazine has ceased monthly publication and will only be doing special issues.

Cuckoo Quarterly

The Little Lutheran/The Little Christian

Underneath the Juniper Tree


Updated Links in the Adult List

• CheerLiving submission guidelines
• Click submission guidelines
• Cobblestone submission guidelines
• Dig submission guidelines
• Faces submission guidelines
• Guardian Angel Kids submission guidelines
• Go! contact information
• Ladybug submission guidelines
• Leading Edge submission guidelines
• Muse magazine plus submission guidelines and themes
• New Moon Girls magazine
• SHINE brightly submission guidelines
• Spaceports and Spidersilk magazine
• Sparkle submission guidelines
• Spider magazine


Updated Links in the Young Writers' List

• Apprentice Writer magazine and submission guidelines
• CheerLiving submission guidelines
• Claremont Review submission guidelines
• Discovery Girls submission guidelines
• Guardian Angel Kids submission guidelines
• Leading Edge submission guidelines
• New Moon Girls magazine
• Spaceports and Spidersilk magazine



Reminder

The next issue of Writing for Children's Magazines will be published in January.

If you want to sign up for the Writing for Children's Magazines Yahoo group, you'll receive a notice of when new issues are posted, plus occasionally receive updates between issues (especially if the information is time-sensitive).




Writing for Children's Magazines, November 2015.

 

 



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