Funny Ha Ha: The High School Humor Challenge

Studio 360
B.J. Novak

Calling all budding humorists: we want you to make us laugh! Studio 360 and the Scholastic Art &Writing Awards are looking for humor writing by students who are about to start high school, in high school, orspringgraduates. Your writing can take any form — text, video, or audio. The writer and actor BJ Novak(The Office, One More Thing) will pick a winner on the show.

Here’s your assignment your piece must begin and end with these sentences:

FIRST LINE: The sun rose and everything fell.
LAST LINE: Alex stared at the door handle and slowly turned the knob.

What happens in between those two lines is up to you!

Click on the image below to enter your humor piece as
text, video, or audio.

Enter your writing as textEnter your writing as videoEnter your poem as audio

UPDATE 8/27: Our winneris Emma Callahan; the runner-up is Dylan Kapstrom.
A big thank you to everyone who shared their work with us!

Our high schoolhumorchallenge is co-presented with theAlliance for Young Artists & Writers’ Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. You can find out more about the Awardshere.

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