Best In Youth Media: Teen Ink Magazine
Posted by meredith on 12-08-2008
Today’s Youth Advisory Board post is from Caroline Marques who’d like to show some love to a worthy teen-centric arts mag and website. I’ll let her take it from here. Remember you can contact our board directly via email at youthadvisoryboard at ypulse.com.
Teen Ink is a national magazine, book series and website dedicated to teen writing and art. Readers and potential contributors may have come across the mag at school or on their own search to get published. There are hundreds of thousands of teenagers who are currently submitting work, reading the magazine, or checking the site.
My interest in Teen Ink was first sparked when I was looking for a place to send reviews or stories. I thought that it was an interesting and necessary idea. One of the reasons I liked it so much was that contributors were encouraged to do whatever they wanted artistically (within reason) in a safe environment. Also, artists and writers are able to get others’ opinions and possibly have their work appear in print! And while adults are involved – articles by teachers and librarians are featured in the magazine as well— in the end, Teen Ink’s voice is the teenagers’.
Other ways teens can get involved is by signing up for writing classes, subscribing to a newsletter or even following them on Twitter. This is the kind of organization aspiring artists and writers need both to help get them published for the first time, as well as to give them an extra boost to get into college. I’d like to help this site get even more members; because it is just what some of us teens need to dare show our talents. Whether your “thing” is poetry, art, sports, reviews, fiction or non-fiction, Teen Ink has it all.
About Caroline Marques (Caro)
Caroline is a high school student in Geneva, Switzerland. While Caroline lists sports, music and travelling as her hobbies, she also very much enjoys writing and reading. After being a teen adviser for NickMag, she thought Ypulse would be the perfect opportunity for a new start. While trying to keep up with the trends (or setting some of her own), dance classes, working on long papers and trying to master three new languages, she rarely has time to write the novel she wishes she could finish, though she is certain one day she will. Writing is never far from her thoughts.
Categorized under: Youth Advisory Board, Youth Media
December 8th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Teen Ink – I thought this would’ve been a teen tattoo magazine… ;)
December 9th, 2008 at 12:38 am
If a teen looking to share their thoughts on the Christian faith, we offer a place to publish poetry, art, testimonies, fiction, etc. by teens as well. It’s called ENCOUNTER magazine!
http://www.encounterface2face.com/magazine.asp
June 10th, 2010 at 11:38 am
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