Writing Contest For Teens About Bullying

New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof wants to raise the conversation on bullying by hearing from the REAL experts - teens.

If you're between 14 and 19, you can enter a 500 word-or-less essay "about bullying or how to address it."  The deadline for entries is April 30, 2012.

Winning entries may be published in the New York Times as part of Krisof's column, and on Teen Ink.

You can find the contest details here.

Namaste,
Lee


ps - Thanks to Curtis Kiefer and Robin Fosdick at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library for letting me know about this so I could share it with all of you!

A cool opportunity for young writers: A new ficitonal short story anthology is looking for tales of "Being Queer"

Hey, teen and young adult writers!

Check out this call for submissions from Bold Strokes books for a new anthology, OMGQueer.




They're looking for fictional short stories about "being queer" from 14-24 year olds across the USA.

"Use the power of fiction to tell us about coming out (or not), about dating, about sex, about what "family means to you, etc."

Their deadline for submissions is October 15, so now you have a great goal for your summer writing. Good luck!

Namaste,
Lee

ps - My thanks to fellow writer Emily Jiang for sharing this with me so I could share it with you!