Cricket: Best Friends Forever?
CRICKET® magazine seeks to publish the highest quality fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction to engage our audience of enthusiastic young readers. Editors consider unsolicited submissions from writers of every level of experience. Since its founding in 1973, CRICKET has published some of the most respected writers of children’s literature. It is also a wonderful opportunity for promising new writers to showcase their best work.
Theme: Best Friends Forever?
Deadline: June 15, 2020
CRICKET (for ages 9–14) is looking for contemporary and historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy, folk tales, myths and legends, and poetry touching on the theme of friendship. Whether you focus on the happy times, like planning a friend’s surprise birthday party, or sad times, like moving away, a friend in need is a friend indeed. You might write about friends who share daring or hilarious adventures; friends who work on a project together; friends who are opposites and squabble or compete with each other; new and unexpected friendships at summer camp or school; and friends who come through for each other in difficult times. You might also explore friendships that suffer from a misunderstanding and need repair; someone who is mistaken or disappointed in a friendship; and BFFs that don’t, after all, last forever.