Ideal for ages: 4-18
Poetry Idol 2023
We’re inviting children & young adults to write a poem about their favourite person. Who do they idolise?
Ideal for ages: 4-18
Young Writers' Annual Showcase 2023
Back by popular demand for 2023, the Annual Showcase celebrates all creative writing styles up to 1,000 words and is open to all 4-18 year-olds in the UK...
Ideal for ages: 11-18
Integer Stories Inspired by Numbers
Get your students raring to write today as you inspire them to write using numbers as their muse...
Ideal for ages: 5-11
The Magic Door
Unlock your pupils' imaginations with The Magic Door...
Ideal for ages: 5-11
The Incredible Diary Of...
Engage & excite your pupils with this fun diary writing activity!
How it works...
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Use the amazing FREE resources and engaging themes to inspire children to get writing.
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Send children’s work to Young Writers - our editors read every poem and story we receive!
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It’s time to celebrate as children become authors published in a real book!
Welcome to Young Writers
Inspiring Young Writers since 1991
"The buzz from my children about writing in the last week has been phenomenal! It has been brilliant to see something they usually don’t enjoy change into something they ask to do."
V Turner, Tenterfields Primary Academy
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"A fantastic competition that really got the children engaged & enthused about poetry writing!"
I Evans, St Cuthbert's RC Primary School, Cardiff
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