KidSpirit Honored with an RCC Award of Excellence for Latest Print Volume

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - April 30, 2026 - PRLog -- KidSpirit (https://www.kidspiritonline.com), the only youth-led platform for building community through life's big questions, is proud to announce it has won a 2026 Award of Excellence from the Religion Communicators Council. The Best of KidSpirit, Volume XI, which was honored in the Books category, is a compendium of the most insightful and inspiring writing, poetry, and artwork published by 11- to 17-year-olds last year in KidSpirit's online magazine.

Led by a global network of young editors, KidSpirit is a unique forum for kids of all backgrounds and traditions to explore questions of meaning in an open and inclusive spirit. Since its founding in 2008, hundreds of teenagers from 38 countries and 33 US states have published expository essays, poetry, artwork, and video on a wide range of meaningful topics.

Each year, youth editors around the world select work that most exemplifies KidSpirit's mission. The winning articles, poetry, and artwork, along with other notable pieces, are published in a print volume, The Best of KidSpirit. Volume XI of The Best of KidSpirit includes content from four issues of the online magazine, each exploring a youth-chosen theme: Crisis & Change, AI and the Future of Knowledge, The School Experience, and Music and Art. Writers and artists included in the volume hail from across the United States, as well as Australia, China, Ghana, India, Jordan, Liberia, Pakistan, Paraguay, Spain, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, Uruguay, and the UK.

KidSpirit also includes one column, called PerSpectives, featuring wisdom on each theme from an adult expert in the field. The Best of KidSpirit, Volume XI, contains pieces by Joel Sartore, Dr. Zachary Biondi, Dr. Jane Quinn, and Susan Magsamen.

This recognition is KidSpirit's eighth award from the RCC. In 2012, 2015, 2020, and 2025, Volumes I, III, VI, and X of the Best of KidSpirit were recognized in the Youth Books and Books categories, as were 10 Years of KidSpirit in 2017 and 15 Years of KidSpirit in 2024. KidSpirit's Interfaith Connections column was honored in 2014.

The Wilbur Awards are given annually by the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) to recognize outstanding work in the communication of religious issues, values, and themes in media in the fields of print and online journalism, book publishing, television, and film. The Award of Excellence is for entries deemed to be of excellent quality and unquestionably worthy of recognition. The RCC, founded in 1929, is an association of communications professionals who work for and with a diverse group of faith-based organizations in the areas of communications, public relations, advertising, and development. It is the oldest public relations professional organization in the United States.

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