Our annual creative writing competition has shown just how much literary talent there is among the young people of Nottinghamshire and this page is for them.
We will be asking best-selling and highly acclaimed authors, publishers, copy editors and promoters to give our young members their hints and tips on how they use imagination, vocabulary, research and grammar to help you improve your writing. So watch this space...
Creative Writing Competition for Children and Young People of Nottinghamshire 2016
Finalists
Group One Name School Story/Poem Title
First Prize Samuel Juby Ernehale Primary, Arnold The Haunted
Second Prize Max Daniels Home Educated Rubber Duckie
Third Prize Kadi Jallow Southwold Primary, Radford The Treasure of Jallow Towers
Finalist Rudeina Abuhager Southwold Primary, Radford Sapphire and the Lost Kingdom
Finalist Evie Colbeck Misson Primary, Bawrty The Last of Its Kind
Finalist Genevieve Daniels Home Educated The Quest of the Quill
Finalist Paige Dear Forest Glade Primary, Sutton in Ashfield Emma and the Mystery of the Evil Queen
Finalist Lily Else Forest Glade Primary, Sutton in Ashfield The Wonders in the Wood
Finalist Elisabeth Fisher Arnold Mill Primary, Arnold Hairdresser Horror
Finalist Josh Holdstock Ernehale Primary, Arnold Multiplying Grannies
Finalist Harrison Kay St Augustines Primary, Worksop Invasion of the Monster Pretzels
Finalist Damian Mansfield Forest Glade Primary, Sutton in Ashfield The Escapist
Finalist Karolina Nowak Southwold Primary, Radford Cat Magic
Finalist Sophie Orange Forest Glade Primary, Sutton in Ashfield The Day Big Ben Broke Down and the Big
Bad Wolf Came to Fairyland
Finalist Alex Padley Forest Glade Primary, Sutton in Ashfield Haunted Time
Finalist Megan Taylor Forest Glade Primary, Sutton in Ashfield Anire's Story
Finalist Matilda Toon Forest Glade Primary, Sutton in Ashfield Mount Everest
Finalist Libby Waterfield Forest Glade Primary, Sutton in Ashfield Above the Risen Clouds
Finalist Macey Willmott St Augustines Primary, Worksop Sugar Land
Group Two
First Prize Ben Holdstock Arnold Hill Academy, Arnold The Mysterious Vanishing Artwork
Second Prize Sophia Kamal Bederski New School International The Planet of our Ancestors
Third Prize Benjamin Carey Arnold Hill Academy, Arnold 3B
Finalist Hannah Greensmith Arnold Hill Academy, Arnold The Box
Group Three
First Prize Tabitha Daniels Home Educated Solitaire
Second Prize Trinity Daniels Home Educated All's Well That Ends Well?
Third Prize Bryony Candlin All Saints’ Catholic Voluntary Academy,
Mansfield The Interview
Finalist Ananyaa Jain Nottingham Girls School The Amulet of Freedom
Finalist Sophie Clay Brunts Academy, Mansfield Oak Castle
Finalist Jemima McKenzie Trinity R C School, Beechdale Violet Spring's Last Day
Group Four
First Prize Jemima McKenzie Trinity R C School, Beechdale A Lover’s Secret Pain
Second Prize Freya Fisher Redhill Academy, Arnold Practise Paper Flooring
Third Prize Tabitha Daniels Home Educated Existing
Finalist Emily Allden Manor Academy, Mansfield Woodhouse You Are My Sunshine
Finalist Rebekah Evans Brunts Academy, Mansfield Titanic
Finalist Jessica Faulkner Carlton le Willows Academy All Nature
Finalist Hannah Greensmith Arnold Hill Academy, Arnold Amazon Rainforest
Group Five
First Prize Yueh-Chia Lo Nottingham Girls High School Life Is But a Dream
Second Prize Oliver Etches New College Nottinghamshire Midnight Matlock
Third Prize Jacob Evans West Nottinghamshire College When Will You Be Chosen?
Finalist Jacob Evans West Nottinghamshire College A Message for a Hero
The competition is set in groups and young people who live or attend schools within Nottinghamshire are eligible to enter.
Group One: Children in School Years Four to Six at Primary School (approximate ages 8 to 11) who are entering short stories or poems .
Group Two: Pupils in Secondary School Years Seven and Eight (Ages 11 to 12/13).
Group Three: Pupils in Secondary School Years Nine and Ten (13 to 14/15). These groups are for short stories only.
Group Four: Any Secondary School Pupil who submits poetry.
Group Five: The John Allin Award: For sixteen to eighteen year olds who submit short stories or poems.
In June last year we launched the seventh annual creative writing competition for the children of Nottinghamshire. The finalists were presented with their awards at our book festival in October and an anthology of their stories and poems has been compiled and is currently with the publishers.
The finalists will be presented with copies of this anthology, entitled ‘Nottinghamshire Children Tell Tales Volume 7’ at a Civic Ceremony at Gedling Borough Council Civic Centre on February 16th.
