The 11-year-old Clyde School pupil was one of two Otago children whose stories were chosen from more than 7000 entries to be published in a book, launched recently.
The Boy with Four Very Unusual Fingers, written by Jago Shea-Armstrong (6), of Broad Bay School, was the other successful Otago entry.
The contest was held in association with the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, and the book, titled Leprechaun Ice Cream is made up of work from 50 children around the country.
Last week the young writers were each presented with two copies of the book, one for them and one for their school, and they also received a $50 book voucher and a poster-sized copy of their page in the book.
Kit admitted being "pretty excited" at seeing his first published work.
"It seems like I've been waiting a while since I got the letter [in June] to say it was going in but it's all been pretty exciting."
His work, called My Diary - the Western Front was inspired by Anzac Day stories, and is written as diary entries made by a soldier in combat.
"The hardest part was editing it. I wrote 373 words so I had to take a lot out to make it 300 words or under for the competition."
Finally, he managed to cut his story down to 299 carefully crafted words and was thrilled to hear his efforts had been rewarded.
Kit is a bookworm who says reading and writing are his favourite activities at school.
He was thinking of taking up a writing career in the future - "but only part-time. I don't want to be a full-time writer".
The competition entries were narrowed down to the final50 by children's book authors Kyle Mewburn, Kate de Goldi, Paula Green and David Hill.
Leprechaun Ice Cream is available through PostShop stores.
