This year J.K. Rowling will celebrate her 50th birthday. To help celebrate this achievement, Always J.K. Rowling is hosting their fourth annual “Light Up Jo’s Birthday” fundraiser for Jo’s charity, Lumos. This year, they want the celebration and honoring of Jo’s birthday to be even bigger and better than in years past (she only turns …read more!

Over 18, live in Western Australia, and free on 27th June? Enter Brisbane Times’ competition to win tickets to Supanova – a VIP event in a secret location in Perth, Australia. Members of the Harry Potter cast such as Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) and Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) will be there, along side many others, …read more!

Waterstones is holding a very exciting competition to win one of three signed copies of J.K. Rowling’s upcoming novel Career of Evil. The website states: ‘We have managed to secure a small number of signed copies of Career Of Evil by Robert Galbraith (aka J K Rowling). Anyone who pre-orders a copy of the book on Waterstones.com will …read more!

WB Games is having a contest where fans can compose and submit a musical score to be used for the next Harry Potter for Kinect trailer: WB Games is looking for a musical wizard to create a contemporary, up-beat and aspirational track for their next Harry Potter for Kinect video game trailer. Harry Potter fans …read more!

The winners for Leaky’s March contest have been announced. The challenge was to write the history of a special friendship and envision how one dynamic duo of witch/wizard and their creature companion met. Congratulations to the following winners: First place: Neville/Trevor by zonkoltdSecond place: Percy/Scabbers by HawthornTonksThird place: Hagrid/Fang by Laine Slater As a reminder, …read more!

The challenge for Leaky’s February contest was to design a rubber duck for Arthur Weasley. The winners have now been selected, and we’re sure Mr. Weasley would have been overjoyed with all of your concepts! First Place: perfectpasty – Flying Machine Duck Second Place: ss19 – Multi-Function Duck Third Place: Ducklover – Mr. Weasley Homage …read more!

For our contest this month we’re asking you to think about some of the human-animal friendships found in Harry Potter and to write the story of their origin. Using 500 words or less write a story of how a witch/wizard and their creature companion (mentioned in the books) met. Please email your submissions to [email protected] …read more!

Residents of Ontario who live in the Greater Toronto Area and Southwestern Ontario can enter to win tickets to “Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience” for the show on March 25th. Enter here for a chance to win. “Potted Potter” is a two man show that condenses all the Harry Potter books into a single …read more!

The winners of our January contest, which involved writing the story of another magical “accident” that happened to Harry before he went to Hogwarts, have been chosen! First Place: KATANDCON Second Place: chikitcorpuzvesterbaek Third Place: Maxine Patwardhan Honorable Mention: ViciousVoldemort Honorable Mention: Kneazel Tamer Honorable Mention: QuillMirror121 Honorable Mention: Freds_Ear Congrats to all the winners! …read more!

CultBox is holding a competition open to UK residents where if they follow CultBox on Twitter, they are entered into a contest to win some gear from “The Woman in Black.” It appears you can win a T-shirt, a mug, and a key chain. Go here for official rules and here to follow CultBox. ~*~Special …read more!