Addition to the Adult Writers' List • Balloons Literary Journal is a new-this-year, online journal. Their homepage describes BLJ as "a children & young adults' literary magazine - where creativity, imagination, weirdness, adventures, & poetry play." It's published twice a year. Their submission guidelines (here) say they are looking for poetry, fiction, artwork, photography,...that would interest school-age readers from around 12 years and up. This is a non-paying market. Sample issues can be accessed online. Additions to the Young Writers' List • Kid Writers Magazine is a new bi-monthly publication of kids' writing. In addition, to help young authors improve their writing, it includes writing tips, inspiration, writing prompts, and interviews with top authors. This is both a print magazine and an e-magazine. Submission guidelines are here. This is a paying market if your work is accepted for the magazine. If it's not accepted for the magazine, they will still consider it for publication on their website. • Balloons Literary Journal welcomes work from young writers. See details above. Theme Lists Updates • Boys' Quest, Fun For Kidz, and Hopscotch • Starsongs A Call for Submissions from Cricket Magazines Cicada, Cricket, and Spider magazines have put out requests for some specific kinds of submissions. See their requests here. This and That • Alfie Dog Fiction is closed to submissions until September 30th. • Suddenly Lost in Words is currently closed to submissions. Updated Links in the Adult List • Discovery Girls editorial contact information • Friend submission guidelines • Justine Magazine--previous submission guide link broken; unable to find a new one. • Little Lutheran--current status unknown; links not working. • Starsong submission guidelines. • Teen Times Updated Links in the Young Writers' List • Starsong submission guidelines and themes. Reminder The next issue of Writing for Children's Magazines will be published in November. If you want to sign up for the Writing for Children's Magazines Yahoo group, you'll receive a notice of when new issues are posted, plus occasionally receive updates between issues (especially if the information is time-sensitive). Writing for Children's Magazines, September 2015.