Writing

The aim of the competition is to encourage young people to use their writing skills and to write with imagination and creativity. For entrants with motor control difficulties an assistant or app may be used to record the entrant’s work to paper.

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Entrants should submit one piece of original work, either fiction or non-fiction, prose or poetry, related to the given theme. The entry should be up to a maximum of 500 words for prose, or a maximum of 40 lines for poetry. There should be no drawings or pictures forming a part of the entry. All entries must be clearly legible but may be either handwritten or typed.

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Plagiarised, “close copied”, or AI generated entries are not permitted in any of the categories. It is important that we protect the work of creative individuals. Whilst we are all inspired by the work of others, there is without doubt a grey area where inspiration carries over to close copying. For our competitions “close copying” is where, to a reasonable person, the submitted entry appears remarkably similar in significant, important respects to a body of work created elsewhere. We are looking for original pieces, not copies or AI generated pieces, which match the theme of the competition.