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Skipping Stones Youth Honor Award Program

A project of Skipping Stones (see other related projects).

About

The annual Youth Honor Awards recognize between 10 and 20 youth from diverse cultural backgrounds and countries for their creative work—writing, art and photography—focusing on multicultural and international awareness and/or nature and environment.

Fees Notice: This project charges fees (or requires purchases) for all submissions, except for low-income entrants, and they do not offer monetary payment for accepted submissions.
The fee is USD $6 (below average for contests).
Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to ages 7 to 17.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States
Established in 1988

Publication Media & Contest Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication
Awarded 1 x per year
Print Publication Print Publication
Awarded 1 x per year

AI Policy

Human-created work only; no AI use allowed

Collapse section Fiction Temp Closed

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Middle grades, Young adults, All ethnic groups/populations.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: Up to 1,000 words; Up to 5 pieces.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Nature/Environment.
Society/Culture: General, Ethnicity/Race.
Other: May vary.

Winner's Prize:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Methods: Email. Postal.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Multiple entries: Multiple entries are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Middle grades, Young adults, All ethnic groups/populations.

Lengths:

Essay: Up to 1,000 words; Up to 5 pieces.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Nature/Environment.
Society/Culture: General, Ethnicity/Race.
Other: May vary.

Winner's Prize:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Methods: Email. Postal.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Multiple entries: Multiple entries are allowed.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Poetry Temp Closed

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Middle grades, Young adults, All ethnic groups/populations.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Poem: Up to 30 lines; Up to 5 pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Nature/Environment.
Society/Culture: General, Ethnicity/Race.
Other: May vary.

Winner's Prize:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Methods: Email. Postal.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Multiple entries: Multiple entries are allowed.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Visual Art Temp Closed

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Middle grades, Young adults, All ethnic groups/populations.

Lengths:

Artwork: Up to 8 pieces.
Graphic Narrative: No page limits known.

Art Media:

Open to all/most Art Media, including...
Cartoon/Comic strip.
Painting.
Photography.

Art Styles:

Open to all/most Art Styles.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Nature/Environment.
Society/Culture: General, Ethnicity/Race.
Other: May vary.

Winner's Prize:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Methods: Email. Postal.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Multiple entries: Multiple entries are allowed.
Media: Image.

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Skipping Stones Youth Honor Award Program Submission Statistics

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We have not received any submission reports for this listing in the past 12 months.

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Dates

Last Updated: 26 Jul 2026

We check their guidelines for changes every four weeks, and we audit the listing twice a year.

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