Submission Tips/Creative Minds

Enter a title and the author’s name in the submission form. If you do not have a title, enter a short description of your submission.
Enter a summary of your creation. What did you create? How did you do it? Why did you do it? Include a way for us to contact you at the end of the summary.
If your submission is text-based, either copy and paste it to the body or upload it from your computer.
Upload pictures or scanned images of your artwork using “Add Image from Desktop.”
If you want to link to a web site, do so in the body of the text.
If you have audio, video or another media, please contact us.

Ready to submit to Creative Minds? Click here.

Teachers, please feel free to submit samples of your students’ work. Creative Minds can feature the work of entire classes, groups of students or individual students. Contact us to discuss possibilities.

Submission Tips / Stories

We publish a wide range of stories written in a variety of styles, and we are always eager to hear from you, even to discuss an idea. Our editorial team will work with you to create the best possible publication.
Use your best judgment to come up with an appropriate word length. Note that we run feature stories, news flashes and student opportunities. Sometimes stories consist mostly of text and a few photos; other times they use slideshows, photo-galleries, video or audio. Select the format you feel most comfortable with that best communicates your story.
Enter a title and the author’s name in the submission form. Then either copy and paste your story’s text directly to the form or upload a file from your computer.
Enter a summary of your story. Provide any information we need to know, such as the context of a classroom project or the inspiration for a personal narrative.
Attach images in the space provided. We strongly encourage you to submit photos. If you have audio, video or another media, please contact us.
If you want to link to a web site, do so in the body of the text.
Include a way for us to contact you (e-mail address and/or phone number) at the end of the body of the text.
Still have questions? Not sure if your story fits? Contact us.

Ready to submit a story? Click here.

Your Turn

Stories

Great Kids Up Close is interested in your stories. We welcome students, teachers, principals, parents and caregivers, partners and members of the larger Baltimore community to share stories about our students and schools—about events happening in schools, everyday learning in the classroom, awards won by students and educators, partnerships between schools and community organizations and businesses, students participating in events and competitions, and just about anything and everything else going on in City Schools. To share, please follow our submission tips for stories and then click here to submit. Not sure if your story fits? We still want to hear your idea. Contact us.

Creative Minds

With 83,000-plus great kids, City Schools teems with creative energy and output. Students sing, dance, play instruments and perform; they take photographs, make films, design video games and logos; they write poetry, short stories, personal narratives and blogs; they sculpt, sketch, design web sites and fashions. These activities call upon students to take what they know (or learn) about the world, to put it all together and to create.

Creative Minds, a part of Great Kids Up Close, highlights the creative output of City Schools’ students. It invites students of all ages to submit samples of their creative thinking—and doing. Please follow our submission tips for Creative Minds and then click here to submit. Want to discuss an idea? Contact us.