This page will have quarterly writing contests for children, giving them a chance to be published on our site.  All submissions become property of PVHF and will acknowledge the child’s first name and last initial and age if posted on this site. If you do not want your child’s name posted with their submission, please advise me of such by placing a large A. (anonymous) at the bottom of the submission.  Be sure to provide me with the contact information required so any prizes or certificates may be delivered to your child.

Rules:

Age 4-6 Short poem of no more than 12 lines, if you wish to submit a drawing with this submission, please mail to our address found in Contact Us link.

Age 7-9 Short poem of no more than 16 lines, or a short story no more than one page (double spaced). If you wish to submit a drawing with this submission, please mail to our address found in Contact Us link.

Age 10-13 Poem between 16 and 32 lines, or a short story no more than 2 pages, double spaced.

Age 13-15 Poem between 16 and 40 lines, or a short story no more than 2 pages, double spaced.

Age 14-18 Poem up to one page in length, or a short story no more than 3 pages, single spaced or 6 pages double spaced.

Please be sure that this is your original work.  We cannot be held responsible for submissions that are plagiarized.  

Contact information we require includes your name, age* (see below), address, phone number, or email address.  Please ask your parents permission before sending your submission in. We cannot be held responsible for submissions sent in without parental approval. Please only send one submission per child.

Submissions can be mailed or emailed. See contact us link for our addresses.  Submissions mailed by ground mail will be accepted if mailed no later than June 15th at midnight.

* For children with learning disabilities submissions may be posted in age category that child’s abilities lie within.  On entry place child’s age beside his or her name, followed by your child’s developmental age in brackets.

This indicates that his real age is 12 and developmentally he reads and writes at the age 5 level. His work will be judged based on his developmental age level, not his actual age level.