Press & media kit
Everything you need to cover PumpkinCarvingIdeas.com or the annual October carving contest: boilerplate you can paste, facts you can trust, and a human who answers email fast during carving season.
Boilerplate
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PumpkinCarvingIdeas.com is a community gallery of real carved pumpkins. Carvers upload photos of their work, browsers heart their favorites and save ideas to carve, and every October the site runs a carving contest with $500 in cash prizes across six awards. The site is independently owned and operated, submissions are moderated for quality, and AI-generated images in the idea gallery are always labeled as such.
The site name is written as one word with capitals: PumpkinCarvingIdeas.com.
Fast facts
- A community gallery of real carved pumpkins: carvers upload photos, browsers heart favorites and save ideas to carve.
- Free to join and free to enter the contest. Uploading an approved carving during October is the entry.
- The annual contest awards $500 in cash across six categories, including a $200 Grand Prize and a People's Choice award decided entirely by community hearts.
- Entries open October 1 and close October 29, with winners announced October 31 (Halloween) at 6pm Pacific.
- Every submission is human-moderated before it appears, and AI-generated images in the idea gallery are always labeled.
- Independently owned and operated. No venture funding, no ad network wallpaper.
Covering this year's contest? The live details are on the 2026 contest page and the official rules.
Story angles
Three ways in, depending on what you cover:
Local carvers can win real money on Halloween
A ready-made local angle for October: anyone in your area can enter the contest by photographing their porch pumpkin, and winners take home cash on Halloween night. We're happy to tell you if entrants or winners come from your region.
The People's Choice award is decided by hearts alone
One of the six awards has no judges at all: the most-hearted carving of the season wins, no appeals. It makes for a fun horse-race story as the standings shift through October.
A gallery that labels its AI images
The idea gallery mixes real carvings with clearly labeled AI-generated concepts, and the contest is restricted to real, human-carved pumpkins. If you're covering how hobby communities handle AI imagery, we'll talk on the record.
Logo & brand
The mark is free to use in editorial coverage of the site. Please don't stretch it, recolor it, or carve your own face into it.
Vector, scales to any size. Tagline: “A Pumpkin Carving Community”
Colors
- Pumpkin
#E8590C - Ink
#221C17 - Paper
#FBF7F0
Need screenshots or print-resolution carving photos? Email us and we'll send a set with the carvers' permission and credit lines included.
On deadline? So are we.
Email is the fastest way to reach us, and October email gets answered quickest of all. We're glad to provide quotes, contest details, regional entrant info, and images.
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