Terms of Use.

Who can use NextVox

NextVox is open to students in grades 1–12, anywhere in the world. If you’re under 13, please let a parent or guardian know you’re using the site and ask them to help set up your account. We don’t require their signature, but we want a grown-up in the loop for our youngest contributors.

Your work stays yours

You own everything you submit. By publishing a piece on NextVox, you give us permission to display it on the site and promote it on social media. You keep your copyright. You can ask us to take a piece down at any time; see our Privacy Policy.

Originality & plagiarism

Everything you submit has to be your own original work. That means:

• ✓No copying, tracing, or lightly editing someone else’s writing or art and submitting it as your own
• ✓Do not use generative AI to create or revise your work. Spell- check and grammar tools are fine. AI-written or AI-drawn content is not.
• ✓Fan art and fan fiction are welcome. You must make the writing and drawings yourself.

If a published piece turns out to violate this, we’ll remove it. Repeated or intentional plagiarism may mean losing the ability to submit to NextVox.

What doesn’t belong here

Our editors read every submission before it’s published, and reject anything that’s hateful, sexually explicit, violent, harassing, or otherwise not appropriate for a general audience of students and families. This is a judgment call our editorial team makes, and their decision on what gets published is final.

Accounts

You’re responsible for keeping your account secure. Don’t share your sign-in link or password. We can suspend or remove an account that violates these terms.

No guarantees

NextVox is run by a volunteer, student-led team. We do our best to keep the site up, review submissions promptly, and get things right, but we can’t promise the site will always be available or error-free. To the extent allowed by law, we aren’t liable for issues that arise from using it.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we’ll update the date at the top of this page. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA.