Fiction Writing Hub

These resources will prepare your students to enter our Kid Fiction Writing Contest and aide you in your creative writing instruction.

Start Here

Introduce students to fiction writing by sharing the video below featuring renowned author Jayson Reynolds. Then share the interactive Fiction Writing Tool Kit to guide your students through planning each element of their short fiction story from beginning to end (also available as a printable PDF).

Watch a Video How to Write a Story with Jason Reynolds Author Jason Reynolds gives students advice for writing a short story.

Interactive Fiction Writing Toolkit

Use this interactive slide deck to brainstorm and plan your short fiction story.

Printable Fiction Writing Toolkit

Download this printable PDF to brainstorm and plan your short fiction story.

Want to Dive Deeper?

Let your students explore how to create the perfect plot and memorable characters by showing the videos below.

Watch a Video

What Is a Plot?

Learn all about the building blocks of plot.
Watch a Video

What Is a Character?

Learn all about what makes a great character.

Find Inspiration

Share some of our favorite fiction stories with your students to help them find inspiration for their own short stories!

Focus on: Setting My Rows and Piles of Coins Every week, Saruni counts the coins in his box, dreaming about the day he will buy his bicycle.
Focus On: Character Girl Can’t Dance Emma dreams of being famous. What will she give up to make her dream come true?
Focus On: Theme The Mystery of the Cactus Arm What could be whispering outside Oliver’s window? And what is it trying to tell him?
Focus On: Inference

A Recipe for Disaster

 We received 1,340 entries for this year’s Create a Character contest!
Focus On: Author's Craft Veronica's Pack A shy girl discovers how to build strength in numbers
Focus On: Plot The Day the Worms Moved In Nothing terrifies Maddie more than worms. How will she deal with 1,500 of these creepy, slithery creatures in her garage?

Your students are now ready to enter their story to our Kid Fiction Writing Contest! Visit the contest page to find rules, submission guidelines, and an entry form.

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