12/06/2025
Christmas Story & Photo Contest
Do you hear what I hear ... Sleigh bells ring, are you listening ... Chestnuts roasting … yup, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.
And your friends at your hometown newspaper are getting into the spirit of the season and are excited to announce our first-ever Christmas writing and photography contests.
The concept is simple. Similar to what we did at Halloween, we are opening up our email inboxes to draw in some wonderful Christmas stories – YOUR stories. Do you have a holiday tale that came from your past? Perhaps one that is completely fictional? Whatever it is, if the writing muse strikes, why not share it with us?
We’ll award the winning entry a first-place certificate, and we’ll publish it in the paper (and you can then say you are a published author).
Ditto with the photo contest. Send us your best photos, and we’ll give the winner a certificate suitable for framing and publish the winning entry.
In both cases, give us a Christmas or holiday theme. Then we’ll let our talented panel of judges go to work.
Here’s how it works.
-Write your Christmas-themed story (or take your photo) and send it to us.
-Don’t exceed 1,000 words – and only send us one photo.
-Connect your story/image to the Falls Co. area somehow.
-The writing/image must be your own and original. You must own the rights to it and sign a release stating as such, as well as give us permission to publish it.
-Get it to us by noon, Friday, Dec. 12.
Pretty simple.
One winner will be selected and that stories will be published, along with the author’s name and photo, by Christmas. If the judges select any stories as honorable mentions, those will be published on our website.
How do you enter?
Simply upload at https://forms.gle/T2RtrshRLK7Dp8MJ9 or e-mail your story/photo to [email protected] or drop it off at our beautiful downtown office.
