Tails of Hope Short Story Contest (5-12 yrs)

Join Pickering Public Library, Pickering Animal Services and Scholar's of Pickering and Ajax and write a story about your furry friend. If you don't have a furry friend, use your imagination and create an animal related story of your own. Select stories will be professionally published with one copy going to the child, and another becoming part of a permanent collection that will be used at the library and future animal related programming. Interested children should register for the program in advance to learn more about the criteria and deadlines.

3 Age Categories

5-7 yrs

8-10 yrs

11 - 12 yrs

Guidelines for submission: 

• All stories must have a biography of the author.
• Images must have no watermarks.
• Only emailed stories will be accepted. Email stories to: kids@pickeringlibrary.ca
• Please do not submit cellphone pictures of your story for quality purposes.
• Before submitting your story make sure your story has the following:
• Cover (Title/Written by…you!)
• Stories must be no more than 12 pages long (can be pictures, drawings, cartoons…be creative!)
• Write a dedication (to my dog Oakley/for my cat Trixie)
• Artist Bio/Self-portrait (write a line and draw a picture of yourself and your furry friend)
• Each page should be 8.5 x 11