Art Contest: Weather Woes
MAY/JUNE 2025
Ever since the buggies came face to face with a cloud with a face, they’ve had rain on the brain. For this month’s contest, everybuggy wants to read your best story about the weather.
Will you write about a severe storm that won’t stop, wild wind that blows your characters off course, thick fog that hides a dark secret, or fun sun that leaves behind a nasty burn? Perhaps you’ll be inspired by a real-life event, such as pilot William Rankin’s harrowing free fall through thunder and lightning in “In the Clouds.” Or maybe the weather will take on mythical proportions, like how in “Tansen’s Gift” a song to bring rain saves a musician’s life.
Your plot may be serious, such as a big game being postponed due to lightning. Or you might choose something silly, like a day when it truly rains cats and dogs. Whether the weather in your story is realistic and relatable or magical and mysterious and whether your characters are on cloud nine or have the rainy-day blues, everybuggy in Cricket Country popped on their ponchos to check the mailbox. Come rain or shine, send your best story—of 350 words or fewer, please—about weather woes.
Here are the only rules:
- Your contest entry must be your very own original work. Ideas and words should not be copied.
- Your entry must be signed by your parent or guardian, stating that it is your own work, that no help was given, and that CRICKET has permission to publish it in the magazine and on our website.
- Be sure to include your name, age, and full address on your entry.
- Only one entry per person, please.
- Your entry must be received by June 25, 2024.
- Email entries to cricket@cricketmedia.com.
- We will publish winning entries an upcoming issue and online.
