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Best Kids Writing Prompts

Join our ongoing contests and win up to $1,500. Flex those creative muscles with these writing prompts.

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This week's contest:
Win $250

Tension, Twists, and Turns with WOW!

97 contest entries /
43 stories

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Closes at 23:59 - Feb 27 EST

Write a story where a character has to take on heavy responsibilities (perhaps beyond their age).

– 48 stories

Set your story in a kids’ playground, or at a roundabout.

– 44 stories

Write a story about an object that has been around for centuries or passed down generations.

– 46 stories

Write about a character who’s expected to follow in someone’s footsteps.

– 38 stories

Write about a character, human or robot, who no longer wishes to obey instructions.

– 53 stories

Start your story with the flickering of a light.

– 94 stories

Write about a character who is trying to convince others to play a game.

– 19 stories

Write about a relationship that has been greatly impacted by a movie.

– 26 stories

Start or end your story with someone realizing that life isn’t like the movies, for better or worse.

– 35 stories

Set your story in a nameless world.

– 27 stories

Write a story that switches between first person and third person point of view.

– 98 stories

Write a fairy tale about an outsider trying to fit in.

– 171 stories

Write about a mischievous pixie or trickster god.

– 204 stories

Write a fairy tale about someone who can communicate with woodland creatures.

– 165 stories

Write a story that takes place across ten seconds.

– 254 stories

Write a story that takes place across ten days.

– 100 stories

Write about someone trying to recreate a grandparent’s signature baked good from memory.

– 160 stories

Write about two people who know they’ve made a mistake, and one of them wants to tell the truth but the other wants to lie about it.

– 120 stories

Write about someone who falls back into childish behaviors whenever they’re around their family.

– 65 stories

Write about someone taking a child trick-or-treating for the very first time.

– 87 stories

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