KidPub runs many writing contests each year. We try to mix it up a bit...some contests are for poetry, others for essays and stories, some are a combination. 

Contests are open to all KidPub members. If you'd like to join KidPub and enter our contests (as well as have a lot of fun posting your own stories and comments), just visit our membership page to get started.

January 2012: Limericks!

Time for some poetry. For January's contest, write a limerick that ends with the word twine. 

The deadline for January's contest is February 2nd. Click here for complete rules!

Previous contests and winners...

2011

November / December: That's When My Pen Ran Out of Ink...

Winner ($50 Amazon Gift Card): What Was Inside the Envelope by Timber

Runner-Up (Under 12, $25 Amazon Gift Card): The Magic Pen by Wildwolf

Runner-Up (12 and older, $25 Amazon Gift Card): The Iliad Blackout by Nemo87999

Summer (Prompts)

Winner: ($50 Amazon Gift Card) The Friendship Note by Skyla24

Runner-Up (Under 12, $25 Amazon Gift Card): A Time Collapser by Maggie.OB.Five

Runner-Up (12 and older, $25 Amazon Gift Card): Dream (Just a Little Longer) by Snickerdoodle 

April (Book Reviews)

Four winners this month, each with a $25 Amazon Gift Card and th opportunity to become one of KidPub's official book reviewers:

porcupineGal for her review of Twilight

Kathryn (kgs221) for her review of Sweet Treats and Secret Crushes

Chiaki (goprincess135) for Virals

Miss Maple for a review of THe Lord of the Rings

March

Winner: One Small Step for man (Well, Sort Of) by Batman

Runner-Up (Under 12): The Space Dancers by mllama99

Runner-Up (12+): Sort of Like Michelangelo by ClarissaG

February

Winner: The Underground World by HaleyJ

Runner-Up (12+): Groundhog Day by ClarissaG

Runner-Up: (Under 12): How 3 Dangerous Predators Spend Their Winter by nemo8799

January

Winner: Monkey House by ClarissaG

Runner-Up (13+): When the Morning Comes by Kiwara

Runner-Up (under 13): Survival at Dawn by AgencyMagic

2010:

The winners of the February 2010 Writing Contest may be seen here!

Our May contest was to write about what happened when a fairy-tale character fell out of the book you were reading...and couldn't go back for a week! Click here to see the winners!

June's contest involved looking at a famous painting by Georges Latour and writing the story of what was happening in the painting. Here are the winners!

July's writing contest featured the 40th anniversary of the first footsteps on the Moon. Read the winning entries here.