The PBS Kids Writers Contest is an annual art and literature competition for students grades kindergarten to 12 in the United States.
[2] In 1995, the first competition was launched by the creators of Reading Rainbow children television program.
The competition encouraged, challenged and rewarded children to write and illustrate their own picture books.
[8] As the participants of the competition continued to grow into 2007 even without any new episode of Reading Rainbow, the WNED-TV station in Buffalo, New York which was a co-creator of the program took ownership to administrate the national-level judging.
[7] With a strong call for expansion of the competition despite the cancellation of the program, the PBS headquarters arranged to have the winning entries to continue to be accessible online as they had been until December 2009.