Highlights for Children Fiction Contest winners for 2009:
"Quince Chaos" by Michelle L. Brown
"Emergency on the Mountain" by Kerry R. McGee
"A Little Honey" by Jocelyn Rish
Below is a list of previous Fiction Contest Winners. Each is followed by the issue of Highlights in which the story appeared.
Fiction Contest Winners Published in Highlights, 1980-Present
Dianne Snyder MacMurray, "How to Catch Your Very Own Elephant-In Ten Easy Steps" (5/80)
Juanita Barrett Friedrichs, "Mummies" (2/81)
Elisabeth Nowlin, "The Rude Pinecone" (5/82)
William and Loretta Marshall, "The Case of the Golden Opportunity" (12/82)
Marie Delilah Ward, "Breakup" (4/83)
Marileta Robinson, "How Elephant Found Her Voice" (4/83)
Linda Stankard-Green, "The Secret of the Old Clock" (6/83)
Paul E. Stawski, "Code Red" (3/84)
Penny Volin, "Molly Bear Looks for Pirates" (5/84)
Melanie Vickers, "Get Back Here, Loretta!" (1/85)
D.L. Halterman, "The Wizard's Sneeze" (3/86)
Terri Dennison, "The Christmas Goose" (12/86)
Becky Thomas Lindberg, "The Mud Thing" (12/86)
Margaret Meacham, "It All Started with the Ant" (2/87)
Mike McCann, "Is Seeing Believing?" (J/A 87)
Beth Thompson, "On the Trail of the Four-Footed Fuzzywumpus" (J/A 87)
Peggy King Anderson, "That New Baby" (9/87)
Jeffie Ross Gordon, "The Mail-Slot Mystery" (3/88)
Kathy Balestrini, "Too Many Jennifers" (4/88)
Juliet Garver, "My Father's Son" (12/88)
Janet Rice Finney, "Lorraine's Looking Glasses" (1/89)
Diane Burns, "Happy Skates" (2/89)
Chester Aaron, "Mike's Rosie" (9/89)
G.M. Glass, "Miss Pendergast and the Wolves" (J/A 90)
Leone Castell Anderson, "Why Leroy Smiled" (10/90)
Eileen Spinelli, "Mannerly Moose" (3/91)
Toby Speed, "Emilio Gets His Wish" (J/A 91)
Kristine L. Franklin, "Clam Tide" (9/91)
Diane Burns, "The Dancing Puppets Mystery" (11/91)
Beth Thompson, "Always in Good Taste" (1/92)
Barbara Kirkbride, "I Will Be Your Friend" (9/92)
Steven J. Sweeney, "If the Sparrow Could Fly" (1/93)
Diana R. Jenkins, "Barkley, Dog Detective" (5/93)
Elsa Marston, "The Olive Tree" (10/93)
Lesléa Newman, "Remember That" (12/93)
Stoddard Hayes, "The Case of the Glass Slipper" (5/94)
Margaret Walden Froelich, "The Running Machine" (10/94)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti, "No-Man's-Land" (11/94)
Lisa Rowe Fraustino, "Back to the River" (1/95)
Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, "The Day of the Bamboo Horse" (3/95)
Teresa Bateman, "Aliens" (8/95)
Rita Rud, "The Panther and the Spinning Wheel" (9/95)
Deborah J. Rasmussen, "Batter Up, Bailey!" (4/96)
Pam Miller, "Easy as Pie" (8/96)
Nancy Buss, "Copycat Mouse" (1/97)
Lynea Bowdish, "Searching for Bird Number Ten" (3/97)
Pam Zollman, "Millie's Garden" (7/97)
Julie Tozier, "Building Bridges" (12/97)
Leonard Chang, "At My Parents' Grocery" (9/98)
Christina Ashton, "The Strange Disappearance of Sir John" (1/99)
Jillian Sullivan, "Going Up" (2/99)
Lee Ebler, "Dust Pictures" (5/99)
Tamara Leatham Bailey, "The Wolf Who Didn't Cry 'Boy!'" (9/99)
Marianne Mitchell, "Windows of Gold" (9/99)
Jillian Sullivan, "Across the Estuary" (1/00)
C.S. Perryess, "The Word Is?" (3/00)
Um Yaqoob, "Smile for the Camera" (10/00)
Roz Rosenbluth, "The Unfinished Robot" (4/01)
Wendi J. Silvano, "Talbot's Tub Troubles" (5/01)
Beth Cadena, "Two Pets and a Pizza" (7/01)
Tommy Ann Clements, "Pitching Iron" (5/02)
Lizann Flat, "Payback" (1/03)
Lee Ebler, "Sam Toes" (7/03)
Denny Dart, "Rafiki Means Friend" (9/03)
Terri Payne Butler, "No Food Names!" (9/03)
Jacqueline Adams, "Aly's Discovery" (8/04)
Karen Dowicz Haas, "The Alligator Race" (8/04)
Denny Dart, "A Rat for Dana" (9/04)
Elizabeth Tevlin, "Dear Alycia" (2/05)
Claudia Cangilla McAdam, "Six Seconds of Lightning" (5/05)
Janet Costa Bates, "Go Kerplunk" (9/05)
Marylin Warner, "Only the Dog Knew" (1/06)
Jacqueline Adams, "Stinky Treasure" (4/06)
Janice Tingum, "Grandma's Purse" (12/06)
Angela L. Fox, "Fly on the Windshield" (3/07)
Jennifer Mann, "The Mysterious Egg" (5/08)
Rebecca Kraft Rector, "The Leaky Robot" (4/09)