Congratulations!
These winners are each paired with an agent to provide feedback on their best five Storystorm ideas.
Drumroll, please!
AMY BOWER (Ammi-Joan Paquette)
ANDREE SANTINI (Sean McCarthy)
BETH ELLIOT (Stephen Fraser)
ANNIE YOUNG (Kat...
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Congratulations!
These winners are each paired with an agent to provide feedback on their best five Storystorm ideas.
Drumroll, please!
AMY BOWER (Ammi-Joan Paquette)
ANDREE SANTINI (Sean McCarthy)
BETH ELLIOT (Stephen Fraser)
ANNIE YOUNG (Kat...
Congratulations to all who completed the 30-story-ideas challenge!
These are the literary agents who have agreed to review the best five ideas from those of you who registered for Storystorm 2026 and signed the Storystorm Pledge. ...
If you’ve been participating in Storystorm all month, you’ve been gathering a flurry of ideas!
Luckily you don’t need a blizzard of ideas to “win” the Storystorm challenge. You just need 30 of them!
When you have 30 ideas, you can qualify to win one of the AMAZING Storystorm Grand Prizes—feedback on your best 5 picture book ideas from a kidlit agent! (Li...
That’s right, it’s the last day of Storystorm! Bonus day to get to 30 ideas!
Tomorrow I’ll post the Storystorm Pledge where you can confirm you have at least 30 bright and beautiful new story ideas. Just comment on tomorrow’s thread and say “YES!”
Remember, don’t send your ideas to me. Don’t post them online. This is all on the honor system. If you say you have ...
by Nikki Grimes
Where did you get the idea for your story? That’s probably the most commonly posed question asked of authors. The truth is, no two answers are the same, at least not for me.
Some ideas are seeded by research. Years ago, an editor asked if I would consider writing a picture book about a little known Black historical figur...