Short Story

Competition: Children's Story Competition
Run By: Chapter One Promotions
Genre: Children's Short Story
Prize: Upto £150
Deadline: 31st October 2011

Enter our Children's Story Competition and win cash prizes with your short stories, send us your original and unpublished writing in no more than 1000 words using one of the five titles below:  

  • The Enchanted Rainforest
  • The Accident
  • Finders Keepers
  • The Family Next Door
  • Mission to the Moon
You can create your own title and story or you can use a story you've written before that matches these titles above.

The best stories, in each of the four age categories, will win these top prizes, plus see their work in print in our Children's Story Book

£150 1st Prize
£75 2nd Prize
£50 3rd Prize

 Plus the school, college or youth club which submits the best overall entries receives a trophy and £200 worth of books.

The winning stories will feature alongside the winning drawings and sketches from the Young Illustrator's Competition in the Children's Story Book.    

   The entry fee is £5 per story and you can enter as many times as you like along with the correct entry fee for each story.  All entries must be in English and can be either hand written or typed. 

Schools, colleges and youth clubs can submit group entries of up to 20 stories for £60

Here are the four age categories:

Category 1

 - 7 to 9 year olds

Category 2

 - 10 to 12 year olds

Category 3

 - 13 to 15 year olds

Category 4

 - 16 to 18 year olds


The last day for stories to be sent in to us is at midnight on

Monday 31 October 2011 

All entries must include your contact details and story title(s) on a separate sheet.  Your name must not appear anywhere on your story. 

Further details here.

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