How do you feel your school will benefit from holding a mini BWA competition?

"Pupils will be enthused to write"
Anne Gallagher
Head of English
Cardinal Pole School
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"Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing" - Melinda Haynes

Awards categories

Submit your story, poem or song to the Brit Writers' Awards and be in with a chance of winning £10,000!

Please read below details about the writing categories you can enter your work within:

Adults:

1. Poetry (collection of five entries)
2. Short stories (minimum 1,000 and maximum 5,000 words)
3. Novels
4. Non-fiction
5. Stories for children
6. Songwriting
7. Stage and screen plays (new for 2011!)
8. Published Writer of the Year (the only category for published writers)

Young people (aged 16 and under):

1. Poetry (collection of three entries)
2. Short stories (maximum 3,000 words)
3. Songwriting

These categories are open to Key Stage 1 (5-7 years), Key Stage 2 (7-11 years) and Key Stages 3 and 4 (11-16 years) age groups.

If you are considering entering your work but have a few questions, you will probably find the answers in the judging criteria section and on our FAQs: entering your work page. 

From the team


Message from our CEO

We've received thousands of entries!
The deadline has now passed, and we're over the moon about the popularity of the first ever Brit Writers' Awards.

Read the BWA team blog...

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