-Would I be able to publish at a young age?
Do yourself a favor and look up Amelia Atwater Rhodes. She’s not just a gimmicky young author, but genuinely good. She had her first publishing contract at fourteen.

As for some publishers in Australia, I’m afraid you’ll have to hunker down to the book store and liberate yourself a copy of the Writer’s Market. It’s an invaluable resource that outlines the market fairly clearly for you.

As to an anthology, it is a collection of short stories published in a book format. They’re a great publishing credit, if you can get into a legitimate one.

As to advice or suggestions, keep writing, and keep reading! You’re a cut above the rest just by being able to write proper sentences, and not use chat speak!

Good luck!

I had my first book published when I was 17. It was an authorised translation from French of a music biography. I also wrote for computer magazines then. So it is possible to get books published when you’re young, although it’s probably much harder in fiction than it is in non-fiction.

The main thing is to enjoy what you write and do it for yourself. I think young people are encouraged to seek approval for everything they do externally (through exams, fashion etc). If you write something you like, it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t get published. It could be a valuable step on the way to being published later. Many adults are content to write for the fun of writing without any plans to have it published, and they might be the happiest writers of all.