Category: Children’s

  • Get your creative potion brewing!

    It’s time to start thinking about your 500 word short story for the Writing Wizardry Competition. Here are a few magical tips to get you started… Make a mind map about each of your characters. Describe them with as many adjectives as you can, and maybe even draw them. This way, you can really imagine…

  • Writing Wizardry Competition – The Countdown Begins!

    If you’re aged 9 or below, then it’s time to get your Writing Wizardry hats on! The Fresher Writing Wizardry competition opens on October 23rd, so if you like writing stories and would like to win your height in books, then this is the competition for you. To be in with a chance of winning, all…

  • Meet The Writing Witches – and learn their secret spells for magical stories!

    Meet The Writing Witches – and learn their secret spells for magical stories!

    Our Writing Witches like nothing better than to visit schools and share their story-writing SPELLS with children in years 3, 4 or 5. Armed with a cauldron and a wand or two, the Writing Witches will come to your class and tell you all the secret ingredients you need to write truly magical stories. Expect…

  • Writing Wizardry winner collects Prize

    Writing Wizardry winner collects Prize

    Tia Finch, the winner of Bournemouth University’s Writing Wizardry Prize, was delighted and somewhat amazed when she came face to face with her prize – a stack of wonderful books as tall as her!

  • The Sweetest Fall By Tia Finch

    The Sweetest Fall By Tia Finch

    The Sweetest Fall by Tia Finch, aged 9 One sunny morning, Tia and Roxy went out to pick some flowers for their mum. They skipped hand in hand, happily down to the bottom of the garden, until, suddenly, unexpectedly everything went black. “Ahhhhhhhhhh!” Tia and Roxy screamed as they fell further and further into a…

  • Ali Sparkes announced as judge for Writing Wizardry Competition

    Ali Sparkes announced as judge for Writing Wizardry Competition

    Award-winning children’s author Ali Sparkes set to judge the Fresher Writing Wizardry Competition.