2024 PBS Kids Writers Contest Winners

Congratulations to our 2024 PBS Kids Writers Contest winners! Explore their stories below.

2024 WVPB Reader’s Choice Awards

“The Sheriff That Changed” by Mia Hutchison
“Bucky Lost His Antlers” by AuBree Miles
“The Magic Corgi” by Avonlea Cooper
“Pickle Pete” by Lily Ann Stubbs

Fifth Grade


1st place: The Sheriff That Changed by Mia Hutchison
2nd place: From My Backyard to Mars by Harper Russell
3rd place: The Dancer’s Promise by Lillian Swearingen

Fourth Grade


1st place: One in a Million by Ivy Ware
2nd place: The Island’s Prophecy by Lucy Lacocque
3rd place: Pickle Pete by Lilly Ann Stubbs

Third Grade


1st place: Protest for Pluto by Hazel Williams
2nd place: Parents Just Don’t Understand by Elise Silber
3rd place: From Triplets to Twins by Lauren Blake Bledsoe

Second Grade


1st place: The Magic Corgi by Avonlea Cooper
2nd place: Detective Casie and the Find of the Unicorn Fossil by Francesca Briar Shangler
3rd place: Rainbow Ducky by Kensi Thomas

First Grade


1st place: The Boy and the Time Machine by Elias Cooper
2nd place: The Hungry Tree by Rowan Bailey
3rd place: Mittens and Cocoa by Helina Goodwin

Kindergarten


1st place: The Magic by Hazel Hagler
2nd place: What Do You Do? by Ava Redden
3rd place: Ballet is Magical and I Love It by Angeline Vittek