Write a Story with The Week Junior
Story Pirates and The Week Junior are teaming up to inspire kids and read their original stories! To celebrate the upcoming 7th season of the Story Pirates Podcast, find a special Story Spark and submit your kids’ stories below!
Story Spark:
Write us a story from your imagination that is inspired by a photo! Use your imagination to make up something fun, silly or weird that COULD be happening in the photo (instead of what is REALLY happening in the photo)! Every issue of The Week Junior has a section called ‘photos of the week’ that has some amazing photos to write stories about.
Try six issues of The Week Junior risk-free here, then submit your child’s story below. Make sure to select the “This story is inspired by a photo in The Week Junior” option under the third question!
Photos of the Week
Kids can’t wait to get their first issue? Here is an example of some of the photos you’d see in The Week Junior. Once you’re ready return to this page and scroll down or submit here.
Creative Writing Guide for Teachers
Teachers, we’ve created a special teacher guide that you can access HERE. We can’t wait to read your students’ stories! Use the form above to submit them.
About The Week Junior
At Story Pirates, we believe that kids are creative geniuses, and our friends at The Week Junior have created the perfect magazine to inspire them! The Week Junior empowers hundreds of thousands of kids across all 50 states to love reading, develop their own points of view, and find their voice. It goes beyond creativity and writing too! There’s something in thier pages to delight and inspire every child—from sports, science, nature, and culture to engaging interactive features like weekly debates, how-to craft projects, recipes, and puzzles.
About Story Pirates
Story Pirates is an award-winning media company that provides hilarious and inspiring entertainment for audiences of all ages. This beloved brand is most recognized for the Story Pirates Podcast, with over 70M downloads, which exemplifies their mission to elevate the ideas, interests, and perspectives of kids. The popular Story Pirates Podcast takes stories submitted by kids and turns them into sketch comedy and songs with help from celebrity guests like Kristen Bell, John Oliver, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Seth Meyers, Bowen Yang, and more. Story Pirates has also produced the Looney Tunes podcast and co-created Game On, a sports podcast for families, with Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media. In addition to podcasts, Story Pirates has released three critically acclaimed middle grade books and five award-winning albums. In partnership with Story Pirates Changemakers, their non-profit arm that brings life-changing arts and literacy tools to under-resourced schools and communities, Story Pirates produces the PBS show Story Pirates Presents: SPTV. For more on Story Pirates, please visit storypirates.com
