WELCOME, DEAR FRIENDS!
Thanks to your enthusiastic participation,
we had a wonderfully successful event!
#9th Annual
#50PreciousWords
#672 Amazing Entries
#2776 Encouraging, Positive and Supportive Comments on the Blog Post
#200+ Books Purchased for the Literacy Initiative
#60 Fabulous Prizes
#8 Exhausted Judges
#1 INCREDIBLE KIDLIT COMMUNITY

WELCOME EVERYONE!!! The Contest is Officially Closed. We are leaving comments open so you can tell these amazing 672 writers how much you love their stories. And we hope to have prize winners and Honorable Mentions announced around the 1st day of Spring.

Some of you have been participating since the beginning. But others are here for the first time. So, I’d like to share a bit about the back story of this contest.

In 2012 I had a dream. I wanted to write picture books. One of the most important things I did was to participate in writing challenges like Julie Hedlund’s 12×12 and all of Susanna Hill’s contests. Why was that important? Because it got me writing. It got me revising. It got me submitting. Hmmm….writing/revising/submitting. I believe that if we do those three things enough times, our writing improves and agents and editors get a chance to see our work. And as much as I am thrilled with my own success, nothing makes me happier than to hear about the success of others in our kid-lit community.

When I first got the idea for this contest back in 2016, I thought a few of my friends might take pity on me and submit a story – to my surprise, there were 128 entries.

Hurray! It’s almost time for the #50PreciousWords 2024 International Writing Contest.

Some of you have been participating since the beginning. But others are here for the first time. So, I’d like to share a bit about the back story of this contest.

In 2012 I had a dream. I wanted to write picture books. One of the most important things I did was to participate in writing challenges like Julie Hedlund’s 12×12 and all of Susanna Hill’s contests. Why was that important? Because it got me writing. It got me revising. It got me submitting. Hmmm….writing/revising/submitting. I believe that if we do those three things enough times, our writing improves and agents and editors get a chance to see our work. And as much as I am thrilled with my own success, nothing makes me happier than to hear about the success of others in our kid-lit community.

When I first got the idea for this contest back in 2016, I thought a few of my friends might take pity on me and submit a story – to my surprise, there were 128 entries.