The Orwell Youth Prize – for secondary students aged 12-18, entries can be in any form, up to 1000 words.The Solstice Prize for Young Writers – open theme for either poetry – up to 40 lines, or short stories – up to 1000 words, aimed at secondary pupils.There’s a downloadable poster for classrooms here. Entries in three age group categories: Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Key Stages 3&4. The task is to write a ‘terrific scientific poem’. The Poetry of Science Competition – is open to children who go to school in Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire.Full details and resources are available on the competition website and the Celebration Day website. Celebration Day writing competition – entrants are invited to write 250 words (primary) or 500 words (secondary) to tell the story of an inspirational person they know.The Wells Festival of Literature offers young poets aged 16-25 the opportunity to enter poems of up to 35 lines on any subject for the annual Young Poets Competition.Winning entries will feature in the October/November edition of Dementia Together magazine. Alzheimer’s Society poetry competition ‘ welcomes entries about dementia or people affected by the condition‘ and offers those under 18 the opportunity to enter up to three poems of 40 lines or less.Will this become the long-term successor to the legendary Daily Telegraph competition from the 90s and 00s? (Not running in 2023) Open to primary schools, secondary schools, and special schools. First News Education School Newspaper of the Year Competition.The competition features a starter paragraph and invites entrants to write under 1000 words to continue the story. The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is open to young people under the age of 19.Entries of up to 1000 words are invited, there are vouchers for the top three entries and full details are available on the website. War Through Children’s Eyes is open to children aged 7-17 and aims to “ raise awareness of the impact of wars and violent conflicts on the communities caught up in them, and particularly on the most vulnerable members of those communities: their children“.This year’s theme is “ The Stranger” and there are full entry details on the competition web page. Inspired by the curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills, The Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize invites young people in the UK aged 11-14 to enter under 500 words of “ writing that is lively, unusual or otherwise original“.The competition is run in association with AFC Bournemouth. Primary children aged 5-7, 7-9 and 9-11 from Dorset can enter the Bournemouth Writing Festival Schools’ Competition.Lawrence Children’s Prize: Writing Competition 2023 is open to students aged 11 and under and 12-16, who can enter up to 500 words on the theme of “my neighbourhood”. Please note – many previously annual competitions have been affected by lockdown/COVID during 2020-3. BBC 500 words short story competition for children – re-opening in September 2023 with two age group categories, 5-7-year-olds and 7-11-year-olds.Īnnual (and past writing) competitions for children and teens.New writing competitions for children and teens Past and annual competitions are listed on the second half of the page below the horizontal line. ![]() New competitions are listed at the top of the page. We have also compiled a list of recommended creative writing manuals and writing workshop activity guides suitable for use with KS1, KS2, KS3, and KS4 at the bottom of this page. ![]() We are happy to feature competitions with at least one month remaining before the closing date. If you would like your competition featured here, please contact us. We are happy to feature writing challenges open to primary-age children, secondary-age pupils, and young adults in the UK. The contests are checked and updated each month. Please read our list of writing competitions for children. Young writer’s competitions for children and teens aged 5-18
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