Inscape & Whirligig: Letter to a Friend
Letters are stories written with specific readers in mind. For this collaborative contest, Inscape Literary Magazine and Whirligig Magazine, BYU’s new children’s literature magazine, invite writers of all ages to tell a story in the form of a letter!
Contributors may write to anyone: a childhood friend, someone far away, someone imagined, or someone they have lost. Letters may also be addressed to a past or future self. However it is framed, each submission should tell a story, using the closeness of the letter form to explore relationship, change, and feeling.
This contest invites writers to imagine a reader and speak directly—to say something that matters. By partnering across magazines and age groups, Inscape and Whirligig hope to celebrate storytelling as an act of connection and to make space for voices discovering, in a letter, what they most want to say.
Whirligig is a BYU student led children’s magazine searching for stories, poems, puzzles, nonfiction, and kid entries: Visit Whirligig’s Website.
Dates
January 22nd to February 26th, 2026
Inscape Winner
To Slumping Trees and Slumping People by Katrina Rudd
Whirligig Winner
Midsummer Mouse Mail by Genevieve Robinson (to be published on Whirligig‘s Website)
