Online Writing Resources for Children

Book Rap
A Book Rap is a book discussion conducted via electronic mail.  Individuals or groups of students from across the country or around the world can discuss the scheduled books.
CBC4Kids Writer's Corner 
CBC4Kids showcases the best of student writing - stories, poems, and reviews.  Send CBC4Kids your writing, either in e-mail or by regular mail, and they will post your writing in the Writer's Corner.  New entries are added every week.
Children’s Express Worldwide – News by Kids for Everybody!
CE invites kids 8-18 to submit stories for possible use on the CE Web site.  Panels of CE members, also age 8-18, review submissions and select several for use online.
Children’s Haiku Garden
This garden is for the submission of haiku verses with illustrations from Japanese children and other children from the USA or other countries. 
CRAYON – CreAte Your Own Newspaper
CRAYON is a tool for managing news sources on the Internet and the World Wide Web. CRAYON uses a simple analogy that everyone can understand - a newspaper to organize periodical information.  The result is a news page customized for you with the daily information that you are most interested in.
CyberKids – Creative Works
CyberKids especially likes stories, articles and poems that are funny.  Art and written submissions can be on any topic that is appropriate for ages 7 to 12.  Stories, which include an original illustration or photo, are more likely to be published than stories without pictures.  Originality is very important.  In addition to art and writing, CyberKids publishes games, puzzles, brainteasers, jokes, and multimedia creations by kids.
For Young Writers
For Young Writers is a “sub-site” for children of Inkspot.com, an online writing community.  Visit the Critique section, where writers 18 and under (including you!) are invited to send in their work for critique from other readers and writers.
Hillside's “Choose Your Own Adventure”
Children read the online story “Buzz Rod and the Light”.  For the rest of the story, click on the Random SpaceTime Warp button. Children will get a different ending each time they click!  See if you can collect all the story endings!
KidNews
Do you have any news from your family, neighborhood, class, or school?  KidNews wants to hear from you and what is happening over the globe from Alaska all the way around to Tokyo and everywhere in between!  Let everyone know what's happening in your corner of the world...submit your news to the KidNews Magic Writer by filling out the online form. 
KidPub
KidPub is a corner of the World Wide Web where children are encouraged to publish their stories and news about their schools and towns.   The best way to submit a story is to use the Online Story Form. This form has boxes for you to fill in with your name, your story, and information about yourself. Stories submitted this way usually appear in three days or less on KidPub.  If you can't use the form, you may also mail your story to:  Submissions@KidPub.org. 
The Kid’s Corner
The Kid’s Corner provides an opportunity for early childhood through High School students to publish original work such as:  Stories, Poems, Travel Tips, Photos, Drawings, Hot Links, Games, Puzzles, Cartoons, Riddles, Jokes, Computer Programs, Music, Questions, and Biographies.  Material submitted to should have a fishing, conservation, ecology or outdoor theme.
Kids on the Net
Kids on the Net is a trAce Online Writing Community web site celebrating writing by children at home and at school all over the world.  Kids can read, respond to, and submit writing.
The KIDS (Kids Identifying and Discovering Sites) Report
The KIDS Report is a biweekly publication produced by K-12 students as a resource to other K-12 students and teachers.  It is an ongoing, cooperative effort of classrooms from around the United States. Teachers assist and provide support; however, students select and annotate all resources included in every issue of the Report.
Kids’ Space
Kids’ Space is an online writing community for children.  In the “Storybook” area, kids can submit stories individually or teachers can submit stories from their classes.
KidzPage – Poetry and Verse for Kid’s of All Ages!
A poetry publishing (and reading!) site for kids – either by individual or class in the “Homegrown Verse” area.
Poetry Pals - The K-12 Student Poetry Publishing Project
An Internet project and resource site to encourage literacy, technology skills, and global awareness.  This award-winning project was initiated during the 1997 SCCOE Internet Institute.  Any K-12 class may participate.
Positively Poetry
Positively Poetry is a homepage created by a fifteen year old girl who is interested in reading and writing poetry.  Currently, she is only displaying past submissions, and is not accepting new material at this time.
Wacky Web Tales
Using various “fill in the blank” parts of speech, students can create their own online “Wacky Web Tale”. 
WRITE Net 
An unbelievably valuable resource for writers and teachers interested in teaching imaginative writing!  Register to join their popular e-mail listserv, where writers and teachers advise each other on methods for teaching writing to students in grades K-12.  All WriteNet listserv messages are automatically routed to your e-mail account.  Enjoy the exclusive interview series, learn how  real-life artists-in-residence teach imaginative writing, and more!
Y-?ress
A “Children’s News Network”, Y-?ress is located at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.  Kids work in groups integrated across lines of age, race, and socioeconomic backgrounds.  The bureau weekly produces a column that appears every Sunday in The Indianapolis Star.
ZUZU
An online publishing community, ZuZu is made great by the contribution of young artists, photographers and writers just like YOU!