Young Writers Society

I'm thinking of sending some of my things in to Teen Ink, but I ahve some questions about it before I do.

1- I live in Austrlia. Does that matter? Can I still send it in? If my piece is published, will I still get a copy of the magazine?

2- Do you get paid or anything?

3- Has anyone else here sent anything to Teen Ink? If so, what did you think of it? Have you read it ever? What's it like? I really want to get some of my stuff out there, and this could be really good.

Thanks.

I used to get this magazine from a few of my teachers in high school, who got samples of it a couple times a year. I wanted to subscribe to it myself, but to my understanding, it is only distributed in bulk supplies; for classrooms.

If you have a copy of the magazine, I would think it would say whether you have to be a US citizen to submit or not.

As for getting paid, I am pretty sure that you don't. There are contests in the magazine with prizes, but in general, I don't think you get paid.

I believe you'd get more information from their website than here. Try sending them an email. It's no more trouble than posting your questions here.

I remember buying a book by them once...

It was a lot like Chicken Soup for the Soul, only 10 times as depressing...

I never made it through the whole thing.

It's at the library, and I read it once, but found the prose boring, the poetry shallow, and the commentary/book reviews to be hopeless regurgitations of what the reviewer had heard through other sources.

As for payment, I don't think they pay you. But I can check it out again next time I come across it.

Listen to Amelia. It's a hodgepodge of b-rated stories and poems. The submission process is extremly casual; no query letters, no emailing, no snail mail (you copy and paste your story/poem into a text box and fill in your name and email address).

And what's worse, you don't get paid. And if you're not accepted, you're entry is just ignored.

Submit if you want, but I wouldn't recommend it...

-Kylan

I've had four things published in Teen Ink. I'm pretty sure they'd welcome an entry from Australia. And some of the submissions that I've read are excellent, not B-rated at all. So go for it. See what happens.