Chestnuts roasting … sleigh bells ring … are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Well, stop hearing the songs in your head and start writing your own Christmas story! Following up on our popular Halloween-writing contest, the Brown County Democrat is doing it again with a Christmas theme.

We’re having our first-ever Christmas story writing contest. The rules are pretty simple – write a story about something Christmasy and be sure to connect it to Brown County somehow. It could be a touching story from your childhood and a special memory. It could be a complete work of fiction where you go for a ride on Santa’s sleigh. Hey, maybe someone will write that Santa spends his summers in the hills of Brown County.

What you write and where your story goes is up to you.

Join the writers who sent us their Halloween tales and watch the Brown County Democrat as the holidays draw closer and we publish the top entries – as judged by our expert panel of top-notch journalists!