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We encourage children throughout our viewing area to write and illustrate their own stories! Children from kindergarten through 3rd grade are invited to write and illustrate their own stories to submit into the PBS Kids Writers Contest. Stories will be judged, and the winners are awarded a trophy and prizes.
2020 Writers Contest Results
2021 Smoky Hills PBS KIDS Writers Contest
It's time to get writing! The 2021 PBS KIDS Writers Contest has begun! We will be accepting stories from young authors until March 5th, 2021
Send In Your Stories To:
Smoky Hills PBS
PO Box 9
Bunker Hill, KS 67626
** All entries must include an ENTRY FORM, the ORIGINAL story, and a self-addressed envelope if you would like the original story returned after judging has taken place.
Story Writing Resources
Get Ready To Write
This worksheet is intended to help children start to form ideas for potential stories. This activity gets them to freely develop story ideas through text and illustration. Serving as a precursor to the Brainstorming sheet, this is a place for the child to draw or write topic ideas for their story.
Brainstorming
Even short stories are complex and require children to work on a number of elements: characters, plot/story structure, climax/resolution, and setting. The worksheet below is intended to help children expand upon their story idea(s) to develop a strong story.
Revision
This worksheet is intended to help children develop self-criticism skills so that they can refine and improve their stories.
Illustrating
This worksheet is intended to help children practice making thoughtful, engaging illustrations for their stories. On the worksheet are some examples of words that you can write into the boxes or you can also have children pick words or phrases from their own stories and have them draw corresponding images.
2020 WINNERS
