What’s Your Story?

WTVP's PBS KIDS GO! WRITERS CONTEST is off and running! Your original stories and drawings are eligible for great local and national prizes, including laptop computers, digital cameras and MP3 players. So shake up those imaginations, dust off those crayons, and start discovering how fun it is to create your very own story.

Formerly known as the READING RAINBOW Young Writers and Illustrators Contest, the competition is open to kids in kindergarten through third grade. Entries can be fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose... anything goes as long as it is your own original story and illustrations. Entries must be accompanied by an official entry form (signed by parent or teacher) and adhere to the Contest Rules (including word count and page formatting).

Entries are due to WTVP by Friday, March 26.

Stories will be judged at individual grade levels by a panel of judges that includes teachers, librarians and various professionals. Local first, second and third place winners in each grade level will be announced in April. All local winners will have their works published on wtvp.org and be treated to a party and prizes in the WTVP Studio. All entrants will receive a special Certificate of Achievement.

First place stories will advance to the national level for judging by a panel of experts. National winners will be announced this summer. National first-place winners at each grade level will receive a laptop computer, second-place winners will receive a digital camera, and third-place winners will receive an MP3 player. And all national winners will have their stories published on the PBS Kids website.

Don't delay... get those stories started right away! Need inspiration? Check out last year¹s winning stories right here. And watch PBSKIDS GO! weekday afternoons starting at 3 on WTVP.