Family (Kinser) Grateful for a Happy Ending as Daughter Finds Way Out of Woods
***FRIDAY Dark UPDATE***
Sad for the delay in posting finalists, everyone! So many keen entries – information technology's really difficult to narrow the field and it's taking us longer than expected. I will practice my all-time to post them no later on than Mon afternoon, sooner if I can. Thank yous all so much for your patience, and have a great weekend!
Witch's wart and wing of bat! It'due south fourth dimension for. . .
The 11th Annual Halloweensie Writing Competition!!!
~ for children's writers ~
THE Contest: write a 100 word Halloween story appropriate for children (children hither defined as 12 and under) (title non included in word count) using the words glow-in-the-dark , goosebumps , and goodies .
- Your story can be poetry or prose, scary, funny, sweet, or anything in between, but information technology will only count for the contest if it includes those 3 words and is 100 words. Get information technology? Halloweensie – because it'due south not very long and information technology'due south for little people 😊
- Y'all can go under the word count merely non over!
- Title is not included in the discussion count.
- Also, beingness super clear for this year, glow-in-the-dark counts as 1 give-and-take (even though information technology looks similar four 😊)
- Yous may use the words in any course i.eastward. glowed-in-the-night, goosebumpley, goody ("Oh, goody!", goody-two-shoes etc.), whathaveyou 😊
- You are welcome to enter more than one entry – merely remember you'll be competing against yourself 😊
- No illustration notes please!
And yep, I know 100 words is short, but that'south part of the fun and the challenge! We got just shy of 300 fantastic entries last year, so I know you tin can do information technology!
Postal service: your story in the comment section below between right now this very second and Sunday October 31st at Midnight – the witching hour! Please include your title, discussion count, and byline with your entry so that if your posting handle is MomNeedsAVacation I'll still exist able to tell who wrote your entry 😊
- For those of you who would as well like to post on your blogs, please feel free to practise so! You are welcome to include the link to your blog with your entry in the comment department below so that people can come up visit your blog, only all entries must be posted in the comment section of This Post betwixt now and Lord's day October 31st at Midnight.
- If you lot have difficulty posting your entry to the comments, which unfortunately sometimes happens, you may email your entry to me and I'll postal service information technology for you! Contact button higher up or [susanna[at]susannahill[dot]com Please place your entry in the body of the email including your title and byline at the top – NO ATTACHMENTS! They volition not exist opened.
- I know how hard you all work on your entries, and how broken-hearted yous are to get them posted, simply delight try to exist a little patient if your entry doesn't show upwards immediately. Many comments have to be manually canonical, and information technology sometimes takes me a little while to post entries that come up in past e-mail. I promise I will go to everything equally shortly as I tin can. I effort never to get out my desk during contests, merely sometimes information technology's unavoidable 😊
- Side Note: WordPress will not properly format entries written in the shape of a pumpkin (or annihilation else!) or with fancy or colored fonts or unusual spacing. No matter how great it looks in whatever programme you compose it in, be forewarned that when you post information technology in the comment section it is going to be basic and I am not able to change that for you, I'm afraid.
THE JUDGING: in a grueling marathon over the days following the contest close, my devoted assistants and I will read and re-read and narrow down the entries to a finalist field of about 12 which volition be posted hither for you to vote on I hope past Friday November 5th (though if the judging takes longer than expected it might be a niggling later – we volition do our all-time!) The winner will be announced Monday November 8th (good lord willin' and the creek don't ascension 😊)
Judging criteria volition be as follows:
- 1. Kid-appeal! – These stories are intended for a immature audience (ages 12 and under), then we're looking for stories that children will savour and relate to.
- 2. Halloweeniness – the rules country a Halloween story, so it must be crystal articulate that the story is about Halloween, non just some random spooky nighttime.
- 3. Use of all 3 required words and whether you came it at 100 words or less.
- 4. Quality of story – entries must tell a story, including a main character of some kind and a true story arc even if it'south tiny 😊 Entries must not be merely descriptions or mood pieces.
- five. Quality of Writing: check your spelling, grammer, punctuation etc. If you're going to rhyme, give united states your all-time 😊 Apply and flow of language, correctness of mechanics, excellence of rhyme and meter if y'all use it, PROOFREADING!
- 6. Originality and creativity – because that is frequently what sets one story above another.
- vii. How well y'all followed the Submission Guidelines – agents and editors expect professionalism. This is a chance to practice making certain you read and follow specified guidelines. If you don't follow agent and editor submission guidelines, they won't even read your submission.
THE PRIZES: Then amazing! What wonderful, generous people nosotros have in our kidlit community! Just look til y'all see what you can win!
⭐️ Picture Book Manuscript Critique past Dawn Young, writer of THE NIGHT BAAFORE CHRISTMAS (WorthyKids, 2019), COUNTING ELEPHANTS (Running Press Kids, 2020), THE NIGHT BAAFORE EASTER (WorthyKids, 2021), THE NIGHT BAAFORE THE Showtime Day OF SCHOOL (WorthyKids, 2021), and the brand new ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS (WorthyKids, October 19, 2021)!
⭐️ Film Book Manuscript Critique (nonrhyming) by Janie Reinart, writer of WHEN WATER MAKES MUD: A STORY OF REFUGEE CHILDREN (Blue Whale Press, 2021)
⭐️ Picture Book Manuscript Critique (biography) by Lindsey McDivitt, author of NATURE'S FRIEND: THE GWEN FROSTIC STORY (Sleeping Bear Printing, 2018), TRUTH AND HONOR: THE PRESIDENT FORD STORY (Sleeping Bear Press, 2020), and A Plan FOR THE PEOPLE: NELSON MANDELA'South Hope FOR HIS NATION (Eerdman's Books For Young Readers, 2021)
⭐️ Picture Book Manuscript Critique (rhyming or any) or Beginning 10 Pages of a longer MS (winner's selection) past Kenda Henthorn, author of the forthcoming BAA, BAA TAP SHEEP (Sleeping Bear Press, April 15, 2022)
Kenda works in the aviation industry now and so it's no surprise that her writing inspirations and aspirations are sky-loftier, too. She resides in Oklahoma and when the winds aren't sweepin' down the plains, Kenda enjoys interim, flying, kayaking and riding horses or her motorcycle. (Vroom-vroom!)She has served equally a Regional Coordinator for the Oklahoma SCBWI and a Best in Rhyme Award committee member and judge.
⭐️ Motion picture Book Manuscript Critique (rhyming or lyrical) by Randi Sonenshine, author of THE NEST THAT WREN BUILT (Candlewick March 2020) and the forthcoming THE LODGE THAT BEAVER BUILT (Candlewick Fall 2022)
⭐️ Film Book Manuscript Critique by Danielle Dufayet, author of YOU ARE YOUR STRONG (Magination Press, March 2019) and FANTASTIC You lot (Magination Printing, September 2019)
⭐️ Storyboard Notebook – a great way to draft your moving picture books! PLUS a deck of What's The Story Cards to inspire the drafts! PLUS the Making Movie Book Magic Cocky Study Form to assist you craft your typhoon!
⭐️ Personalized signed copy of ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS past Dawn Immature PLUS your selection of one of the writing craft books listed below!
⭐️ Personalized signed copy of BRANCHES OF Hope: The nine/11 Survivor Tree past Ann Magee PLUS your choice of ane of the writing craft books listed below!
⭐️ Personalized signed copy of MIMIC MAKERS: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature past Kristen Nordstrom PLUS your pick of i of the writing craft books listed below!
⭐️ Personalized signed re-create of A Program FOR THE PEOPLE: Nelson Mandela'southward Hope for His Nation by Lindsey McDivitt PLUS your selection of i of the writing craft books listed below!
⭐️ Personalized signed re-create of THE NEST THAT WREN Congenital by Randi Sonenshine PLUS your choice of ane of the writing arts and crafts books listed below!
⭐️ Personalized signed copy of 13 WAYS TO EAT A FLY by Sue Heavenrich PLUS your pick of 1 of the writing arts and crafts books listed below!
⭐️ Winners of the half-dozen signed picture books above may besides receive their option of any one of the following writing craft books to go along with their picture volume:
Please join me in thanking these very generous authors and other writing professionals for contributing their books and writing expertise every bit prizes by visiting their websites and blogs, because their books and services for altogether, holiday or other gift purchases, rating and/or reviewing their books on GoodReads, Amazon, B&N, or anywhere else if you like them, recommending them for school and library visits, and supporting them in any other fashion you tin dream upwards! 😊
Happy Writing! Happy Reading! And Happy Halloween!
Now, allow the Halloweensie brainstorm!
The two 94 entries listed beneath are linked to where they announced in the comments so you tin can click on the titles and get right to them! (Assuming WordPress cooperates . . . fingers crossed!) Anyone who feels kind tin start at the bottom of the listing and so those entries go some comments too! 🎃 😊
- Isolated For Halloween – S. J. Little
- A Halloween Time Machine – Sara Kruger
- Conditions'south Trick, Witch's Treat – Abby Due north. Wooldridge
- Halloween Is LIT! – Anne Lipton
- Kit'south Costume – Kari Ann Gonzalez
- Mean Halloween – Heather Ferranti Kinser
- A Witchy Switch – Katie Schwartz
- The Porchlight – Chris Garcia-Halenar
- Bruce Goose – Jessica Hinrichs
- Undersea Halloween – Vashti Verbowski
- Sugariness Swap – Daniella Kaufman-Schloss
- The Halloween Witch – Trista Herring Baughman
- The Lonely Pumpkin Head – Elle Jaufret
- Hallows' Eve – East. A. Peterson
- Whose True cat Is THAT? – Beth Stillborn
- This Pumpkin's Not For Picking – Laura Howard
- The Jimjam – Carrie Karnes-Fannin
- Play a trick on Likes Treats, But Then Does Dive – Melissa Valente
- The Haunted Firm High Up On The Colina – Sue Lancaster
- Tricked The Treats – Katie Fischer
- A Helpful Ghost – Emily Durant
- The Wraith On My Wrist or Ghostie Lost In City Mist – Emerge Yorke-Viney
- Three Little Geese Do Halloween – Linda Williams Swanson
- A Glowing Solution – Nicole Loos Miller
- Warning: May Contain Sugar – Amy Leskowski
- How Hannah Saved Halloween – Colleen Tater
- Double Significant Halloween Knight – Debbie Meneses
- Untitled – Shariffa
- The Scavenger's
FeastBall – Sarah Hetu-Radny - 'Tis The Season, Processed Eaters – Hannah Roy LaGrone
- Greta'south Glow-In-The-Dark Goosebumps – Susan Eastward. Schipper
- Bobbing For Apples – Lyn Jekowsky
- The Perfect Pumpkin – Barbara Kimmel
- No More than Sugar! – Sarah K. Rose
- Fairy-Burn – Vanessa Konoval
- Creepy Cook-Off – Sarah Meade
- Macy & Lucy'southward Halloween – Sarah Meade
- Ghostly Linens – Stephanie Maksymiw
- Happy HOWL-oween – Lindsey Hobson
- 3 Glowing Bats – Sherry Roberts
- Halloween Family Hole-and-corner – Jennifer Mary Grolemund
- A Sick Day – Jany Campana
- The Pied Pumpkin Of Halloween – Marta Cutler
- Creatures From The Couch – Julie Hansen
- Alligator The Ghost – Marta Cutler
- Goose-Zilla – Linda Staszak
- Welcome To The Skeleton Trip the light fantastic toe – Sue Heavenrich
- Teal Halloween – Kathleen Lowry
- The Gloves – Stephanie Rondeau
- Ghoulie Rulies – Brenda Whitehead
- Tricky Treaters – P. J. Purtee
- Garth'southward Game Changer – Darcee A. Freier
- Nabbed! – Abby Voss
- The Wart-Covered Tree – Danielle Arndt
- The Last Fall Firefly – Meagan T. Gentry
- Who Cares If It's Cold? – Allison Strick
- Glenda'southward Goosebumps – Susan Burd
- The Candy Thief – Meagan T. Gentry
- Halloween Hero – Rose Cappelli
- The Halloween Ball – Marta Cutler
- Scary-Get-Round – Catherine Catcho
- The Scariest Monster – Marty McCormick Bellis
- Fright Night – Marty Findley
- Halloween Eve – Barbara Renner
- Wilbur Werewolf – Deb Buschman
- Teeny Owl'due south Spooky Halloween – Janet Parkinson Bryce
- No Room For Monsters – Jill Stuck
- Ghost Firm – HC Morris
- Boogie Man's Bright Thought – Jenn Shetsen Wierda
- Swamp Animate being Falls For Sweets – Jilanne Hoffman
- Have You lot Seen My Monster – Alan Elliott
- Halloween Hang-Ups – Russell Wolff
- Mark Lights The Way – Karyn Curtis
- Halloween Pie – Jill Stuck
- The Costume – C. E. King
- I'm Coming To Get You – Pat Holloway
- The Frightmare – Linda Staszak
- Frankie & Gigi: Trick Or Feet – Kira Barrett
- Home For Halloween – Melissa Miles
- Not The Costume I Wanted – Michelle S. Kennedy
- Goosey Glender'southward Autumn Feast – Bartybear
- Halloween Scavenger Hunt – Denise Seidman
- Stink Fairy'due south Hallo-evil-smelling-ween – Stacey Miller
- Hallowmas – Danielle S. Hammelef
- Goosebumps For Mother Goose – Lynne Marie
- How Do You Tickle A Ghost? – Kizzi Hutcheson
- Dragon Magic – Melissa Rotert
- Gretyl Hobbled Into Halloween History – Royal Baysinger
- Shiver And Sugar! – Abby Voss
- Monster Feast – Abby Voss
- Are Y'all Ready To Pull a fast one on-Or-Care for? – Corine Timmer
- Christmas In Oct – Vanessa Konoval
- Spooky ABCs – Alan Elliott
- Dragon And Pirate's Halloween – Alan Elliott
- Tiny's Halloween Flight – Carolyn C. Snelling
- Rainbow Span – Corine Timmer
- Great-Aunt Broomhilda – Josh Cohen
- Cirque Fantome – Kizzi Hutcheson
- A Knock On The Door – Pamela Swanson
- Play a trick on-Or-Treat Nightmare – Cindy Sommer
- Worth The Climb – Armineh Manookian
- Cheers, Trick-Or-Treaters! For Protecting Your Mother – Sharon McCarthy
- Beware, Out There – Julie Lerczak
- The Haunted Bath – Jill Lambert
- Plan Bee – Jenny Morales
- "BOO!"One thousand Spooky Halloween – Laura N. Cloudless
- The Witch'due south Mistake – Jennifer Kaap
- Itsy B. Spider – Molly Ippolito
- Also Many Goodies – Rachel Krackeler
- Ghostmetics – Rozana Rajkumari
- Santa's Halloween – Jen MacGregor
- My Scariest Halloween Night – Les Degnan
- Winnie Trick-Or-Treats – Dorothy Kohrherr
- Camping Surprise – Meredith Flory
- Halloween Hunt – Mary Ann Featherston
- The Glow-In-The-Night Bowl – Kathy Scott
- The Haunted House – Carmen Castillo Gilbert
- Once Upon A Halloween – Colourbeam
- A Witchy Potion – Susan Summers
- A Giant Surprise – Susan Summers
- Hollow-Eeek! – Karen Keesling
- Once Upon A Halloween – Nadia Ali
- Halloween Battle: (Vampire) Squid vs. (Goblin) Shark – Laura Bower
- Happy, Happy Halloween – Claire Freeland
- Mr. O'Leary's House – Nina Nolan
- Phantom Festival – Lynn Moore
- The Surprise Halloween Friend – Cindy Greene
- Goosebumps – Amy Flynn
- Ninja Goose And The Halloween How-do-you-do-Yah! – Deborah Foster
- Tricky Treat – Patricia Nozell
- A Halloween Snack – Debra Daugherty
- Escaping Planet Taradiddle – Colleen Daugherty
- Kickoff Halloween Treat – Natalie Cohn
- My Last Play tricks-Or-Treat – Reed Hilton-Eddy
- Glowing Ghost – Lauri C. Meyers
- hALLYween SPELL – Paul Roncone
- Halloween Honey – Marla Yablon
- Cockroach's Glowing Trouble – Lori Himmel
- Scaredy-Cat Pat And The Haunted Firm – Sara Dean
- Allow The Real Halloween Brainstorm! – Lori Evans
- Ixchel's Belizean Halloween – Blanca Manzanilla
- Emy Is Always Correct – Katharyn R. Benessa
- Tricky Care for – Ann Grilli
- Jack'due south Pumpkin Plan – Diana Murrell
- Lights In The Dark – Ivanka Dimitrova
- Fraidy True cat No More – Jennifer Ruby
- Galactic Fox-Or-Treat – Tiffany Hanson
- My Ghost Bubble Friend – Sheila R. Schmotzer
- R-R-R-Rattled – Gennie Gorback
- Glow-In-The-Dark Goodies – Leslie Collins
- Moonlit Love – Liz Kehrli
- Un-Spooky Halloween – Krista Legge
- Stella Shines – Laura Barens
- Tabby The Problem Maker – Dawn Renee Immature
- The Nameless Ghoul – Imelda Taylor
- How The Jack-O-Lantern Found His Real Smile – Sheri Palmer
- Halloween Hunt – Connie Newbauer
- Spidey Sparkles – Angelique Lamour
- Never Trick A Witch – Tiffany Hanson
- Halloween Monster – Tiffany Hanson
- The Halloween Sleepover – Kelsey Due east. Gross
- Goose Bumped – Jen Subra
- The Rock – Trista Herring Baughman
- Halloween Pumpkin – Shariffa
- A Catchy Tattoo – Gregory E. Bray
- Brave, Adalaide – Katie Walsh
- March Of The Skeletons – Jill Richards Proctor
- Footling Nighttime Terrors – Obbverse
- The Mansion On Maple – Glenda Roberson
- The Graveyard Picnic – Gabrielle Cardwell
- Halloween Heebie-Jeebies – Karen Pickrell
- A Few Of The Scariest Things: A Parody To The Tune Of My Favorite Things – Ingrid Boydston
- The Witch Of Jekyll Island – Shampa Enayet
- FEELINGUNSEENONHALLOWEEN – Nicola Beach
- Hank'south Halloween Costume? (A Riddle In A Story) – Ken Major
- All Hallow's Eve – Stacey Miller
- Molly's Ghost – Hobbo
- The Witch'south House – Emma Wood
- My Word – Information technology's Halloween! – Jamie Donahoe
- Switched On And Off – Diana Webb
- A Dark With Gran – Diana Webb
- Boys Will Be Boys – Matt Snyder
- Flicker Of A True cat'due south Tail – Jacqui Boulter
- Pumpkin Train – Kathy Raggio
- The Alien – M. Waknitz
- Jellyfish George'due south Halloween – Scott Kinder
- Skeleton's Halloween – M. Waknitz
- Twyla Z. Witch – Lori Dubbin
- Witch's Brew – Chiliad. Sibilia
- It'due south Halloween – Elizabeth Muster
- Capture The Goodies On Halloween – Ames Jegen (historic period eleven)
- (Not) A Very Scary Story – Linda Staszak
- Halloween Helpers – Ellen Seal
- Halloween Alarm – Stephanie Henson
- Leaping Lizards! – Sharon Match
- Graveyard Bully – Jean James
- The Greatest Night Of The Twelvemonth – Krista Harrington
- Halloween Hide And Seek – Melissa Wrex
- Trick Or Treat Nighttime – Emily Keifer
- Oscar'southward Irresistible Brew – Lucretia Schafroth
- All Hallow'southward Eve At The Roller Rink – Bonnie Kelso
- My Halloween Crew – Alana DeVito
- Postal service Halloween Goals – Amy Reitz
- The Card Game – Cathy Lee
- Quiet Dark – Thelia Hutchinson
- Fob-Or-Treat, Night Animals!: A Halloween Story – Mary Catherine Amadu
- A Halloween Tail – Janice Kay
- An Inch – Susan Leigh Needham
- Underwater Halloween – Judy Sobanski
- The Lonely Scarecrow – Sarah Atherton
- The Lilliputian Witch – Deborah Chase
- Waking The Dead – Nancy Derey Riley
- A Non-Then-Sugariness Halloween – Erika Romero
- It'due south Halloween In Toothytown – Kristen Littlefield
- Until Information technology's Safe – Brittany Saulnier
- First Halloween – Karen deWilde
- You Are What You Eat – Alexa Tuttle
- Once Upon A Halloween – Carrie O'Leary
- Goodie Ghost's Halloween Screams – KJ Albright
- A Bunny Tin can Dream – Becky Walker
- Ogre'southward Halloween – Barbara DiMarco
- Monster Lipstick – Kathi Morrison-Taylor
- Ghoulies Grand Soiree – MaryAnn Cortez
- Haunting Gnomes – Lindsay Moretti
- Goosebumped Ghoul And Scattered Skeleton – Sarah Kohls Roberts
- Non This Time – Sandhya Acharya
- How To Sneak A Halloween Care for – Alicia Meyers
- I Wish. . . – Amy Duchene
- Bram'due south Hunt – Michaela Almeida
- Terrific Toothpaste! – Heather Gallagher
- The Afterwards Party – Samantha Sinclair
- The Terminal Hr – Ashlee MacCallum
- Halloween Gala – Tonnye Williams Fletcher
- Halloween Bites – Melissa-Jane Nguyen
- Double, Double Toilet Trouble – Stephanie Amargi
- Henley's Haunted House – Jeannette Suhr
- Disguise Surprise – Nancy Derey Riley
- Plenty – David McMullin
- Witches Aren't Supposed To Be Afraid Of The Dark – Ally Piper
- Frankenpixie – Paul Kurtz
- Scaredy-Monster – Paul Kurtz
- Halloween's The Worst! – Donna Kurtz
- Bunny'south Bored! – Donna Kurtz
- The Goblin Market – Aly Kenna
- Wilfred The Sorcerer – Nicola Thackrey
- Halloweenie – Jana Mattern
- The Final Business firm On Halloween – Bru Benson
- Ghostly, Ghastly, Goosebumps – Janet F. Smart
- Astronaut Aidan – Kaye Wright
- The Halloween Dare – Erin Cleary
- Dracula'south First Halloween – Eleanor Cullen
- Pumpkin Dawn – TSW Sharman
- A Southern Halloween – Trista Herring Baughman
- The Candy Monster – Judy Cooper
- The Halloween Potty – Andrew Hacket
- It Absolutely Will Be A Fine Night – Susan Krevat
- Halloween Goodies – Una Belle Townsend
- It's Nighttime In Here – Sue Ko
- Eyelashes – Sue Ko
- Fall – Sue Ko
- Too Dark – Rae Harkness
- Boo – Mary Ann Napolitano
- Much As well Goody – Sarah Hawklyn
- Candy Surprise – Julianna Kurtz
- Halloween Surprise – Judy Egan
- Trick-Or-Care for At 20 Below – Matthew Lasley
- Gotcha! – Pat Finnegan
- The House Next Door – Aundra Tomlins
- No Grownups! – Penny McNally
- The Halloween Party – Claire Schlinkert
- Can Nosotros Please Skip The Costumes? – JC Kelly
- How Would She Know? – Meredith Adams
- The Day After Halloween – Oasis Blough
- Brujita'southward Treat – Desi Vee
- Spooky Investigates – Jessica Murray
- The Best Medicine – Becky Falkum
- You Ain't Nothin' But A Hot Dog – Joyce Schriebman
- Witches Holiday – Nadia Nakib
- Halloween Hocus Potion – Shelley Kinder
- Goats And Goblins – Briana Joy McCormick
- Next Halloween – JC Kelly
- Pirate'due south Halloween – Marjorie David
- Airheaded Goose – Sarah Marhevsky
- All's Fair In Spook And Scare – Patricia J. Weaver
- Smartie Care for – Steena Hernandez
- Haunted Hunt – Dea Brayden and Linsday Brayden Ellis
- The Glow-In-The-Dark Goodies – Christopher Singleton, Sr
- Witches Woods – Bevin Rolfs Spencer
- Invite A Witch To Your Halloween Party?! – Holly Vagley
- Pumpkin's Halloween – Holly Vagley
- Halloween Moon – Martha Holguin
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