Teen Writers: 10 Sites Where You Can Post Stories & Get Feedback

If you're a teenager looking for a broader audience for your writing, here's a list of sites that allow you to post stories, poetry, and other content, and receive comments and critique. Explore them and find the ones that suit you best.

FictionPress separates content into 21 different genres for stories (and 15 for poetry) and according to its front page, hosts over 1,200,000 works. In the style of its sister site Fanfiction.net, members can write reviews, subscribe to other members, make lists of their favorite stories on the site, and become beta readers.

Worthy Of Publishing lets members upload covers for the stories they submit, which could help attract readers. The site uses a five-star rating system and members may comment on a story (overall) or on individual chapters. Online resources for writers and self-published books are also promoted.

inkpop allows users to vote for the top five projects which will be read monthly by the Editorial Board consisting of HarperCollins editors. Members can submit and add tags to their work, read and review stories, enter contests, and post in the message boards. Be sure to take a look at the Submission Guidelines before getting started.

Myspace meets Quizilla with Mibba, a site on which young writers can create detailed profile pages and submit original stories, poetry, fanfiction, journal entries, and forum posts. Nonfiction is welcome too in the form of opinion, how-to, and news articles, and product reviews. Other features include a chatroom and Mibba Radio.

Booksie hosts stories, poetry, articles, essays, song lyrics, and more. Some newer features include virtual gifts you can send to other members, and an eBook generator which converts members' work into a PDF file. If you've published a story on a different site, you can link to it.

In addition to hosting stories and reviews, WritersCafe.org offers writing courses, contests, groups, and message boards, as well as a search function to find literary agents, publishers, and magazines in your area. The Writers homepage highlights new members, top reviewers, and writers to watch.

Members of The Young Writers Society can participate in interactive stories and post their own work on the forum-style site. The forum has over 13,000 members and boards for separate fiction genres, photography and art, and NaNoWriMo; members will also find searchable databases of resources for writers.

As you can probably guess from the name, Elfwood accepts fantasy and science fiction stories (as well as artwork) and has tutorials, forums, and a community of more than 98,000 members. If you enjoy this niche, you may look forward to browsing the thousands of works already posted.

You could earn a bit of money for your writing through StoryMash, which pays writers for each chapter they publish by sharing more than 50% of ad revenue. Members may also enter contests for prize money, collaborate in projects, and post in the forums.

Blog communities like LiveJournal can also be good places to post your stories- usually when you're just looking for readers to entertain rather than in-depth critique.