Children’s story Competition 2025

Children’s story competition: deadline 29th september 2025

Our Children’s Story Competition gives you everything you need to inspire creativity that will have your 7-11 year olds completely hooked!

What can you expect?

  • FREE resource pack with writing tips and techniques
  • Anne Fine, award-winning author of Madame Doubtfire, is our competition judge
  • £100 book tokens plus personalised feedback from Anne Fine for winning entries
  • FREE 3-month Stories for Schools membership to the school that submits the most entries

The task: A story of 500 words on the theme of ‘Courage’!

The result: Engaged and inspired young people who have the chance to share their creativity and win exciting prizes!

Download the resource pack. Set the challenge. See young people inspired.