We had such a wonderful response to our new look Young Writers Prize this year, with entries from Dunster to Denmark, and even New Zealand! Thank you all for your submissions. It has been a hard task to whittle so many clever stories and poems down to a short shortlist but we have finally done it – and here it is!
All of these entries are now in the hands of the fabulous novelist Ali Sparkes, who has the VERY tricky job of choosing the winners.
(PS, if your name isn’t on the list, please don’t feel sad – everything entered was really good, so we had to make some tough decisions. Keep writing and try again next year!)
Years 3 and 4
The Golden Mange by Guru Kashyap
The Queen, the Corgis and the Missing Sixpence by Halwyn Purser
The Environment by Evelyn Chia
The Morning Before Christmas by Rosanna Barnett
My Thoughts on Covid by Ellis Hutley
Dawn by Bea Sharpe
Wonderful Winter by Nate Hutley
Lila and her Spaceship by Amelia Jia Yee Kan
Daydream Dave by Maya Leome Turner
Through Others’ Eyes by Mazzy Sleep
Bouncing Back by Vedantika Chakraborty
The Lost Jug by Mira Farris-Thomas
Lost in the Wild by Finley Cox
Robbery on Roseberry Avenue by Noah Clarke
Stop Fidgeting by Anoushka Arun
Dinosaurs Need Tissues Too by Eleanor Suckling
Rainbowvill by Eva Noraine
The Gingerbread Man Horror by Denny Mills
The Adventures of Sophie Wild by Elena Lange
Gealky by Chloe Ebbrell
Years 5 and 6
A Rescue on High Seas by Mihika Bhattacharya
Julia by Alannah Griffiths
Turnip by Himani Wyldbore-Wood
How to Meet Your Idol by Kitty Tyack
Unfolding by Laila Barnett
Fight Against Fear by Aimee Bezer
The Furniture Apocalypse by Martha Orson
Old, Brown Slippers by Lucy Harrison
The Vegetarian Viking by Dylan Port
My Magic Pencil by Max Bowler
The Magical Hula-Hoop by Medina Robson
I Remember it Well by Medeea Maties
Digital Dimension by Michael Coste
The Backwards Jumping Bunny by Emily Liu
A Day in the Life of Bleep by Kieran Ho
Can Birds Have Dreams by Igor Cherniavtsev
As the Stormy Clouds Loomed by Erin Hosier-Wood
Bouncing Back by Caitlyn Chung
Bogis the Swan Thief by Jesse Roberts
What the Moon Dreams by Phoebe Crow