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Jim Story Award: Entry Information
JSA Eligibility Requirements
  • Entrant must be a current AGS member
  • Entries must have won 1st or 2nd place in a manipulated gourd category in a State Chapter Show in 2025.
  • If you have a qualifying entry for both the Single and Multiple Manipulated categories you may submit each one for the 2025 contest. *note: you may submit only one entry per category.      
  • Submit a separate form for each entry.
  • Entries are dried manipulated gourds  that have been cleaned,** with no added finish
  • Entries may have multiple manipulation techniques, such as knotted and molded, coiled and molded or etched while green. Use your imagination.
  • Multiple manipulated gourds are manipulated so that they are inseparable.
  • Multiple manipulated entries may also have been grown in different years, such as a green gourd manipulated around a previously grown & dried manipulated gourd. Once both gourds are dried the entry is eligible.
**See Green Cleaning educational document below

What You Need for Your Entry
  • Complete the Jim Story Award Entry Form. Save the form on your computer and add your last name to the file name. Note: submit one form for each entry. Please provide sufficient information to inform the judges of the challenges and techniques you used to create your entry.
  • Provide several high quality photos of the entry. At least one photo is desired from each side, the stem end and blossom end of the gourd. (Optional - one photo of the gourd with you)
    • See the tutorial "How to Photograph Your Gourd for the Jim Story Award" below
  • Photos of the gourd during the growing and manipulating process inform the judges on the time and effort involved. These are optional, but helpful.

How to Submit Your Entry
  • Submit the completed application form (Fill-in-the-blank form above) by sending as an attachment to an email to  [email protected]
  • 6 or more high quality photos to [email protected]
  • Alternatively, you may send these items by USPS mail to AGS Membership, PO Box 2186, Kokomo, IN 46904-2186 
  • Submission Due Date: NOVEMBER 30th
2025 Jim Story Entry Application
2025  Jim Story Award Rules
Click to see Jim Story Judging Criteria
Back to About Jim Story Award
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Bruce Barber & Jane Story at 2013 Gourd Show

Forms, Tutorials and Educational Documents

2025 Jim Story Entry Form
2025 Jim Story Award Rules
Frequently Asked Questions
Jim Story Manipulated Gourd Judging Form


Growing & Harvesting Gourds
Growing a Gourd in a Flat Mold
Gourd Pests
Green Cleaning Gourds
How to Tie a Knot with a Gourd
How to Build a Gourd Arbor
Photographing Your Gourd for the Jim Story Award
Sample/Examples of Completed Jim Story Questionnaires

Books:
The Immortal Molded Gourds of Mr. Zhang Cairi by Betty Finch and Guojun Zhang

Jim Story Award 2nd & 3rd Place Winners

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  • Join
    • Standard Membership-2025
    • Auto Renewal Membership
    • CA+International Membership
  • Magazine
    • Quarterly Contest
    • Back Issues
  • Chapters
  • Calendar
  • Education
  • Gourd Growing Tutorials
    • Manipulated Gourd Tutorials
    • Sellers: Seeds, Gourds
    • Growing
    • Harvesting
  • Crafting Techniques
    • Pyrography
    • Crafting Resources
    • Crafting Tutorials
  • Judging
    • Competition Scoring Forms for Judges & Clerks
    • Training Apprentice & Certified Judges
    • Judges Activity Reporting Forms
    • List of Judge Instructors
  • Artistry Award
  • Jim Story Award
    • JSA-Eligibility/Entry
  • History of Gourds Around the World
  • About
  • Judging