I’ve seen some great puzzles on the Web and I’ve enjoyed being destroyed by them. Here’s a puzzle for you… if you’re clever and want to figure it out. Remember: everything’s a clue and there’s no such thing as a mistake. So, there’s a solution.  You must figure out what it is.  It is something [...]

I’m about to show you why I have so few friends.  It’s because I don’t put up with ‘team mentality.’  Hey kids, come over here and join my poetry team!  Yeah dudes!  Get with it!  Get hip to my dang poetry team, bro!  We could win!  We could take the whole prize, sista!  Yeah, baaaaaaby! [...]

National Public Radio’s web site is hosting a three-minute fiction contest. NPR book critic Alan Cheuse will choose a winning story to be read on-air and the best entries get posted on the site. The rules are simple. You just write something that can be read in under three minutes. My camera is a digital [...]

Candlelight’s favorite children’s author, Artie Knapp, working with the Wilmington News Journal, sponsored a fourth grade student essay writing contest and the winners have been announced! The students were asked to write about Clinton County, Ohio where they live. Their essays were judged by education majors at Wilmington College. This is one of those encouraging [...]

Candlelight’s favorite children’s author, Artie Knapp, working with the Wilmington News Journal, sponsored a fourth grade student essay writing contest and the winners have been announced! The students were asked to write about Clinton County, Ohio where they live. Their essays were judged by education majors at Wilmington College. This is one of those encouraging [...]

Candlelight’s favorite children’s author, Artie Knapp, working with the Wilmington News Journal, sponsored a fourth grade student essay writing contest and the winners have been announced!  The students were asked to write about Clinton County, Ohio where they live.  Their essays were judged by education majors at Wilmington College. This is one of those encouraging [...]

If you want to enter the mystery contest, just finish the mystery we’ve started below by entering your part of the story into a comment. We do not need any personal information about you. You can just enter your name or your online nickname. We don’t need an email address or anything else. The contest [...]

The winner of our April 2009 Mystery Contest is Pippa, age 10! Congratulations to the winner!  Pippa has written an imaginative and interesting continuation of the story that is a pleasant surprise. Riley’s Crypt The trees of the forest bent over sideways in the howling wind. The white disk of the full moon shimmered behind [...]

DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO Sascha Cooper is our Little Poetry Contest winner.  Her poem, A Blank Canvas, is a meditation on the power of creativity in normal surroundings.  We didn’t get many poems for the contest so it only makes sense to pick a single winner.  Perhaps more poets will want to enter the next Little [...]

Write a poem for National Poetry Month!  Just let your mind wander and write a poem of any kind in the comments area for this post. Get your poem done by 12:00 am PST Friday April 24, 2009. Your poem can be any length.  It can rhyme or not.  Just make a poem and let [...]

Don’t forget the Kids Mystery Contest for April.  Write your story entry and if it wins it’ll be posted for all to read right here on the blog.

If you want to enter the mystery contest, just finish the mystery we’ve started below by entering your part of the story into a comment.  We do not need any personal information about you.  You can just enter your name or your online nickname.  We don’t need an email address or anything else.  Of course, [...]