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Welcome to the Amazing Young Writers Challenge. If you're aged 22 or younger, you can submit creative writing in any form, including stories, poetry, non-fiction, memoir, anecdotes, comic strips, scripts, artwork - absolutely anything you like. Show us what you can do with words!
Before submitting, please read the rules. Below the rules, you will find some more information about the challenge.
The rules are simple but please read them carefully:
Submissions are welcome from teachers, parents, guardians or the writers themselves. If you are submitting on behalf of your children / students, please let me know when you submit.
Any type of writing is accepted - there is absolutely no limitation, so please let your imagination run wild!
Every writer published via this writing challenge will receive a Certificate of Publication in jpeg format. The certificates look like this:
Amazing Young Writers Challenge 'Certificate of Publication'
I reply by email to every submission I receive, letting you know your story has been published. Your certificate will be attached to the email. If you don't hear from me, please check your spam folder. If there's nothing in spam, please email me and we'll find another way of delivering your certificate :-)
This challenge was launched in January 2021. So far, we've published 125 pieces of creative writing by amazing young writers.
The Amazing Young Writers Challenge was launched after I was contacted by Mahvish Noman, an arts teacher at a school where 95% of the students are underprivileged children.
Mahvish asked me if I'd publish some poetry written by their students. After a bit of back and forth by email about the best way to do this, I decided to launch this challenge.
The primary aim of the challenge is to give young writers the opportunity to see their writing published and read by a global audience. I hope this will offer every young author that submits valuable experience and encouragement to keep writing and being creative throughout their lives.
The 100 word limit is educational. Having so few words to play with makes a writer consider every word they use carefully, meaning they learn the art of editing. Once learned, this skill can be applied to longer works, making them more engaging to read.
Anyone living in any country can submit to this challenge. I hope that means we are able to celebrate a diverse variety of voices from around the world via the challenge.
If you have any questions about the challenge, please contact me.
Due to the amount of submissions this challenge has received, the stories, poems and other pieces of creative writing are now published in batches of 100.
Here are links to the pages:
I list many other competitions, prizes and awards for young authors and students on my young writer competitions page.
Amizero IPM
Wow, this is great! How can I enter my work?
Chris Fielden
Thanks for your message, Amizero. You can either submit your writing as a comment, using the comment form above, or email it to me. Please read the rules on the page above and it explains how to submit. I'll look forward to receiving your work :-)
Daisy B
Hello! This sounds like such a great idea. I will definitely be submitting. I was just wondering whether these stories will be published in an anthology?
Also do you have any advice for young writers who want to become authors in the future?
Many thanks, Daisy
Chris Fielden
Hi Daisy. Thank you for your message :)
I don’t have any plans to publish these stories in an anthology. The challenge is online publishing only I'm afraid. I have published a lot of anthologies in the past, supporting a variety of charities, but it is too time consuming to publish books via every challenge I run. Sorry about that.
Regarding advice, there is loads of it in the 'Advice' section of my website, but here are two posts to get you started. The first is titled 7 Creative Writing Tips That No One Else Will Give You, by Dr Lynda Nash.
The second is a post I wrote, all about how I earn a living from writing.
I hope that is helpful. I'll look forward to receiving a submission from you for the challenge :)
Ayat H
I am very happy about being a young writer! I love entering different competitions and use as much imagination as I can. Hopefully this is the start to an amazing writing career!
Chris Fielden
That's great to hear, Ayat. I wish you the very best of luck with your writing in the future :)
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