Children's Sites

New subscription site where children's work can be posted, aimed primarily at schools. It offers monthly competitions and is 'designed to raise the profile of literature written for children, by children'.

Sophie and Emma's own site for children, this is the perfect place for any child writer who wants to share their work with other kids. Poems, stories, reviews and competitions, plus a list of groovy schools. www.groovychildwriter.co.uk

This site has just won the World Young Reader Prize from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers and it's very well deserved. It is written by children and for children, and features everything from reviews to author interviews, extracts and quizzes. In the past it has: teamed up with Amnesty International to look at literature that explores identity, from race to religion; investigated the best LGBT books for young adults; and taught users how to draw everything from a pooping dinosaur to a jampire. It's also a lot of fun and inspires children with a love of books and reading.

New American site which offers information about 10,000 publishers, focusing particularly on what to submit where. You need to register to get full use from the site, but it's free and does contain a huge amount of useful information for children's writers www.jacketflap.com