International Writing Competition for Young People
INKHEAD are a group of writers in London who run creative writing workshops for young writers. Every year they also run a worldwide
short story competition for young people between the ages of 7 and 16. The thing that sets it apart from other competitions is that everyone receives a critique – winners get a long one, everyone else something much shorter.
The task is to write a story under one of the following titles:-
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Dangerous Diana’s Downfall
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The Spy At No. 10
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Welcome to the Hacienda
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Astronaut Adventure
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Who’s Laughing Now
length: 1000 words maximum
Entry fee: £5 per story – special arrangements for schools, libraries, youth groups.
Age categories:
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Category 1 – 7 to 9 year olds
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Category 2 – 10 to 12 year olds
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Category 3 – 13 to 14 year olds
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Category 4 – 15 to 16 year olds
Prize: One overall winner – £100, plus a full A4 page critique of the story, highlighting its strengths and suggestions to improve it and eight runners-up (2 in each age category) will also receive a full critique and a £25 book token. Winners and Highly Commended stories will be published in Inkhead’s next anthology.
Extras – All entries will be given a FREE short critique of their stories.
Deadline – midnight, April 1st 2015
More details HERE
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Just waiting for the next competition for children aged 10/13
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Excellent, I’ll keep a look out. Thank you. Rhoda.