Bring your best ideas and discover what it’s like writing for a magazine.
You will also learn how to make your work stand out and how to work with an editor, how to revise and develop your writing. We are looking for poems, short stories, prose – any kind of creative writing as long as it is your own and is no longer than 500 words. You can submit up to 3 pieces of your creative writing. You need to either attend a Spark Young Writers group, or live or study in the West Midlands.
If your piece of writing (or pieces) are accepted into the magazine, editor will provide feedback on your piece of writing and may ask you to edit it or request your permission to make small changes. All pieces featured in the magazine will be proofread and any minor changes will be made before publication.
Issue 23 of Spark Young Writers Magazine will be published in October 2021. The deadline to submit your writing is 27th September 2021. This issue of the magazine has no prescribed theme, but as ever is being produced as part of the READ ON project, co-funded by Creative Europe.
How to submit:
If you are a young person aged 8 – 20 living or studying in the West Midlands, you can submit up to 3 pieces each of no more than 500 words in length. The work should be uploaded via the submission form as a Word document, or rich text document.
The Editor will chose from the submissions and not all pieces may be included. Everyone will receive feedback from the editor about their writing. Please note that as this is an online, text based magazine, images are not included in the magazine itself. On the whole, we tend not to accept extracts of pieces.
Please complete the online submission form and upload your writing as a Word Document where prompted in the form.
Please see our Terms and Conditions for more information about the magazine and its content.