This year we created the first literary award for teens to be decided by teens! We went through intense rounds of voting to decide the...

It's another round of winners to cheer for! The theme of our all-teen anthology collection for 2023 was "Heroes & Villains!" We saw a...

Give a round of applause to the winners of our Poetry Collection! This year's group was carefully selected by our special guest judge,...

We received a TON of awesome entries for our annual First Chapter Contest! Thank you to everyone who mustered up the courage to send us...

Often in writing, we discuss the importance of the first line, the first page, and the first chapter. In fact, I am constantly...

Teen writers from all over recently joined us for a TABC 2021 preconference event that gave birth to some fantastic on-the-spot writing!...

By KayLynn Flanders For twenty-nine years of my life, I was content to be a reader. Writing is too hard, I’d always say. However, I loved...

by Jessica Day George So, you’ve decided to write a book. This is a great idea! The world always needs more books! But how, HOW do you...

by Patrick Scalisi When you’re working on a story, it can sometimes be fun to step away from the main project and work instead on...

By Jeff Wheeler One of the fun parts of being a writer is the chance to let your imagination run wild as you dream up new places, new...

By Shelly X Leonn No matter how hard I try, I can’t sit still while I’m writing. I wish I could resemble that portrait of Phyllis...

Know Where You’re Going By: Emily Layne Writers are generally categorized into two groups—ready to find out which one you are? Do you…? ·...

By Candice Marley Conner My favorite books to read are ones I fall into completely. I need to be grounded in the story so I can easily...

by Maryanne Melloan Woods My main piece of advice: go deep. Your characters should be multi-layered, fully-developed people that your...

Johnny Worthen I am excited to be a part of this year’s Teen Author Boot Camp. It is a wonderful event, aimed right where it’ll do the...

Jennifer A. Nielsen Hey young writers, let’s chat about how to build a stronger plot. Play along and see where your imagination takes...

Amy Beatty When I was a wee whippersnapper, my father passed on some excellent age-old writing advice: “Never say always, and always...

Kyra Johnson A lot of times the response I get when I tell people I’ve written books is, “oh, I’ve always wanted to be an author!” I...

Emma Boone Being a writer is a wonderful rollercoaster of super highs and terrible lows. It's a lot of fun imagining new worlds and...

By Shelly Brown Good questions are critical to have in your writing, whether it’s fantasy or romance or nonfiction. In fact I recently...