Tessa Presents What Happens Next?

What happens to your AGW
Submissions?

Our online magazine is free. Without your hard work and contribution, there'd be nothing for other girls to read every month. So, thank you for sharing your time and talent with all of us. After all the work you put in, there's still work to do! Here's what happens next, and what you can expect will happen to your article, submission or application for Featured Member.

The Process

1. Our webmaster collects all the submissions
2. Then they are sent to Karen, our club editor
3. Everything is sorted out. There's about 30 different areas girls can write for right now!
4. An adult checks the submissions and tosses anything inappropriate. (We're a "G" rated safesite for "all girls!")
5. Some articles we have to say "try again" to. We don't like to do that, but if we get twenty articles on "skateboarding" in a week, we can only publish one! Other articles we send out "congrats notes."
6. Articles are forwarded to girls and teens who have volunteered to help out
7. Submissions are edited for clarity and content
8. If there's links, we check each one
9. Then our Volunteer Editors send the articles back to us
10. The Girlcrew finds more links, funfacts and pictures if needed
11. The AGW Hosts and Girlcrew of girls 7-17 (with adult volunteer help) meet and look at the submissions that have come back from our volunteer editorial team.
12. Every volunteer has different jobs to do. Some girls look for cool sites, or crafts, or activities, make craft samples, check recipes by cooking them first.
13. If there's more than one answer to an advice question, the Girlcrew picks one to publish
14. If it's a contest entry, the girls judge the contest and choose winners
15. If you sent us a graffiti wall or graphic button, Chris, our Creative Director, will code your entries and create the bumper sticker/button for the Graphics Library
16. If you sent us a Quiz, Survey or Magic Story, they are coded and programmed separately
17. All the articles to be published or not published are gathered up. (We can't publish absolutely everything, but we do our best. There's lots of chances to get an article, poem or story online!)
18. If there's something wrong, or there's no email address, we publish the submission anyway and hope the author will contact us to say -- give me my Gold Key Membership, please!
19. The articles to go online are coded in HTML (hypertext markup language) so your computer can read it (Click on VIEW in Netscape and hit "Page Source" to see what we do behind the scenes on each page. Cool, huh!)
20. Your coded article is reviewed to make sure all the graphics and buttons and links work
21. A safety check is done to make sure all personally identifiable information has been removed (no last names, cities, schools, etc.)
22. Your article is put into the "line-up" to be published
23. There are 5 areas on AGW that update every day
24. There are 25 areas and about 60 pages that are updated every month
25. A free newsletter goes out every month to girls who have signed up for the newsletter. That's when girls find out what has been published that month.
26. Girls and grownups volunteer to do all this work, so mistakes happen. Sorry! We're girlpowered, so it's part of the learning process
27. If there are mistakes or a program doesn't work quite right, Steve, the webmaster fixes it.
28. The Girlcrew and Club Editor meet with the whole club in the Gold Key Circle once a month to ask for ideas for articles, contests and fun things girls and teens can talk about and do.

After You've Been Published

Congratulations! You're now a member of the AGW GirlCrew! We recommend that girls save copies of the articles they publish on AGW. Thousands and thousands of girls the world over will see it, so it's just like being published in Teen, or Girl's Life --except girls wrote these, not adults! When you apply for college scholarships, show your school counselor your work. She might be able to help you get grants and scholarships based on your writing and volunteer work.

If you get an article published and you don't hear from us with instructions on how to get your "thank you" Gold Key Chat club membership, that means our email to you bounced back, or we didn't have your address. Please write

For your FIRST published article, you'll get a membership in the Gold Key Circle for a year and our thanks for sharing your time and talent. Every girl or teen who publishes something on our site becomes a member of the AGW Crew. We have monthly meetings online in the Gold Key Circle which you are welcome to attend. Join the fun! This is your space!

For each additional published article you write, you'll get an entry in our big Birthday Bash Thank-You Raffle for AGW crew members and volunteers in June. (That's AGW's BD month!) You can expect there'll be books, games, videos and lots of cool stuff for girls.

Want to submit something else? Our online magazine is free. Without your hard work and contribution, there'd be nothing for other girls to read every month. So, thank you for sharing your time and talent with all of us. All submissions become the property of A Girl's World Online Clubhouse. Have fun writing! Best wishes, the hosts, staff and crew of A Girl's World -- all volunteers like you!