Crashtest Magazine

“Crashtest is an biannual online magazine founded and run by the creative writing students at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina, so that students in high schools all over the country will have a place to publish work that tests limits, asks questions, rejects the easy answers, risks obliteration, believes in failure, is suspicious of scripted success.”

How do I get started? Go to the Crashtest website and submit your poetry, stories and creative non-fiction in the form of personal essays, imaginative investigation, experimental interviews and ephemera. If you are submitting poetry, send in 3-6 pieces for consideration at a time.

How do I expand this narrative arc? Check out some of the many other publications and competitions we have found for you.

• If you are writing fiction or poetry, you should be submitting it to one of the many competitions and journals aimed at teens. See our posts about getting writing and poetry published in the prestigious Hanging Loose Press, Teen Sequin , Elan Literary Magazine and more.

• You may also want to consider applying to the prestigious Iowa Young Writers’ Studio for a summer program.

• The New York Times runs many student competitions through the year for all different types of writing. Consider submitting an entry.

HOT TIP: Publication in a major literary magazine is a serious honor for a teenage poet. It will be even more valuable to you if a strong interest in writing and poetry are at the core of your narrative arc.