Polyphony Lit.
Polyphony Lit is one of several online literary platforms that publish the work of high school students exclusively. Polyphony gives awards and also offers a unique editorial internship to a small number of talented writers each year. It’s a great way to publish work you’ve done in school, or work you’ve done out of school that needs a bigger audience.
“Polyphony Lit is the global online literary platform for high school students. We invite high school students worldwide to submit creative writing, join our editorial staff, write blog posts, take workshops, and grow into leadership roles. Because developing young writers is central to our mission, our editors provide feedback on every submission.
We offer three awards for excellence in writing through the Claudia Ann Seaman Awards for Young Writers, one each in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and the student editors publish an online magazine featuring their favorite pieces from each genre.
Since our founding in 2004, we have received submissions from high school students in 71 countries and all 50 US states. Our student editors have given feedback to every submission, over 19,000 and counting.”
How do I get started? Click here.
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.