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Waterstones' award winners announced
Friday, March 31, 2017
Kiran Millwood Hargrave has been announced as the overall winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 with her debut novel, The Girl of Ink & Stars (Chicken House).
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Information book award shortlist announced
Friday, March 31, 2017
The School Library Association has announced the shortlist for the seventh annual SLA Information Book Award, covering themes from refugees and the Holocaust to the Great Fire of London and computing.
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Schools invited to shadow poetry award
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Schools can apply to shadow the CLiPPA poetry award, run by CLPE, which encourages schools to create a poetry classroom for three weeks in June. Free classroom resources are available.
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Imagining future worlds
Saturday, March 25, 2017
If you like daydreaming about what the world might look like in the future, then you might like to give this competition a try. You could win a family trip to Disneyland Paris!
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Climate change challenge for young poets
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Those aged up to 25 years are being challenged by the Young Poets Network to write, film or speak a poem about our changing world and climate change.
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BBC seeks the authors of tomorrow
Saturday, March 25, 2017
The BBC Young Writers' Award 2017 is open for submissions and is looking for stories up to 1,000 words from young people aged 14 to 18. The closing date is 21 April.
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Elephants, magic and Bigfoot!
Saturday, March 25, 2017
We have sets of three exciting adventure stories to give away from publisher Chicken House, including The Elephant Thief (Jane Kerr), The Boy Who Went Magic (AP Winter), and Bigfoot, Tobin and Me (Melissa Savage).
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Writing competition for budding script writers
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Fancy the idea of script writing as a career? Or do you just enjoy writing your own stories? Here's a great competition from First News to write a short monologue or dialogue.
