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 ...

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 ...

The Queen praised young writers for taking readers on “breathtaking explorations” as she presented medals for a national writing competition at Windsor Castle. Camilla met each winner during the BBC ...

Following a record year for entries in 2025, the DH Lawrence Children’s Prize Writing Competition returns with this year’s theme celebrating ‘friendship’ ...

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 ...

Young writers are being invited to take part in a creative writing competition. The contest is being run by the Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum, aimed at children aged seven to 11 living in the ...

Eighth-grade students from New Bremen were awarded the first-place team award at the Power of the Pen writing competition Saturday at Ohio State University-Lima. LIMA — In today’s digital age, ...