On this week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage, host Kathy Mattea welcomes American Patchwork Quartet, Kyshona, The Brother Brothers, and Stephanie Lambring to the historic Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, WV.
Winners have been notified and have received their awards by mail. Their full stories will be published on our Education page in the coming days and all first-place stories will be featured in WVPB’s Education Newsletter. Please, stay tuned and go here to sign up to get the newsletter!
Kelly Griffith is the Education Director for WVPB. “It’s an honor to highlight the talent of our young writers in West Virginia,” Griffith said. “This contest provides an opportunity to showcase their creativity, imagination and beautiful artwork. We are thrilled to continue our tradition of encouraging children to build literacy skills by supporting our local schools and teachers.”
First-place winners in Grades K-5 will be given the opportunity to record their stories, and one special winner will have his or her story animated by one of our talented television producers!
Here are all of our winners:
The first-place winners in Kindergarten through Fifth Grade in the 2020 PBS Kids Writers Contest presented by WVPB.
Winners in our 2020 PBS Kids Writers Contest presented by WVPB.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Reader’s Choice Awards for this year’s PBS KIDS Writers Contest. Every year, WVPB picks a select number of stories out of all the submissions to win the Reader’s Choice Awards. Those stories are either animated or adapted into live action shorts.
Rebecca Walters, an English teacher at Fairmont Senior High School in Marion County, earned West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s May 2025 Above and Beyond Award, which honors the excellence and creativity of Mountain State teachers.
Shannon Silverman, an astrophysicist at the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences in Charleston, West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above the Mountain State.
[CHARLESTON, WV] – West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s (WVPB) Us & Them Podcast has received two awards in the Radio Television Digital News Association’s (RTDNA) 2025 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.
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