BBC has begun accepting submissions for its 500 Words creative writing competition for children across the U.K. The competition, supported by BBC Teach, encourages children of all abilities to dive ...

Pop Up Projects & The Week Junior have joined forces to transform lives through literature. Children For Change has teamed up with one of the UK’s leading current affairs magazines for young people, ...

The U.K. children’s writing competition 500 Words is being relaunched this September, supported by BBC Teach with BBC Breakfast hosting the initiative for 2023. 500 Words is a U.K.-wide competition to ...

The winners of the UK children’s writing competition, 500 Words, have been unveiled on World Book Day in a special episode of The One Show hosted by Alex Jones and Roman Kemp on BBC One and iPlayer.

Wicked Writers: Be the Change 2025 has launched! This is a writing competition devised by the National Literacy Trust and stage musical Wicked (as part of its acclaimed Wicked Active Learning cultural ...

Betty Brandt Passick is a Fairbank, Iowa native and award-winning author, currently residing in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.

An 11-year-old writer has been named the winner of a countywide children’s writing competition. Rokaya, of Dorchester Middle School, was awarded first place in the seventh annual Story House ...

Caden Heiser-Cerrato ’26 spent high school steeped in stories. He founded a creative writing club, hosted flash fiction contests, and wrote pages upon pages of stories and poems. He loved writing — ...

Sussex school children invited to enter Story Trail Writing Competition - deadline to sign up and take part in Story Trail Learner Programme is 13 February.

Educationist and proprietress of Rising Child Academy, Oleanov Wilson, has highlighted the importance of nurturing children’s writing and communication skills from an early age, describing them as ...