Earlier this year, we ran the Short Story Prize in
partnership with Bloomsbury Children’s Publishing – a competition that asked budding
children’s fiction writers to recreate a classic fairy tale and give it a modern
twist.
The £200 prize and the chance have their work published in an ebook attracted over
four hundred entries, all of breath-taking quality and vision.
It has been a long, hard process, but we are delighted to
announce the list of 30 stories that will be submitted to our panel of judges including
Chris Priestley, award winning children’s author, members of the Bloomsbury
Editorial team and Jonathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust.
King Arthur by Rohan Agalawatta
The Problem with Mr Woolf by Kelly Archer
The Mysterious Transformation of the Prince of Amphibia by Stephanie Aslan
Cinders’s Fella by Catherine Cade
Broken - A Mother's Tale by Geoff Crawford
What’s in a Name by Peter Donald
Hood by Kate Dowling
Sinbad the Sailor by Hayley Down
Threads by Victoria Dutchman-Smith
Beardunzel by Annette Edge
The Perfect Child by Charlotte Goddard
A Tail for Talia by Maggie Holman
The Chocolate Apple by Katja Kaine
Rumpy Stilton by Christine Kelly
Terms & Conditions by Christian Kriticos
Sarah Snow and the Seven Spacecraft Engineers by Miranda Luby
The Giant’s Child by Victoria McFarland
Mrs Ginger’s Gingerbread House by Luke McNaney
The Elves and the Shoemaker by Suzanne Meikle
Frog Boy by Graine Milner
Centre-Ella by Samantha Pope
Hansel and Gretel by Treasa Reilly
Jackson Spriggins and the Magical Baked Beanstalk by Sarah Rowles
Mya Molio by Rachael D. Salmon
M Perez New Clothes by Phil Sheppard
Trip T. Rap and the Group Chat Kids by Julia Stafford
Vanished by Frances M.S. Stickley
The Tiger’s Fine New Clothes by Fiona May Thiemann
My Dog Is A Were-Doodle by Jennifer Watson
Cinderella Take Two by Karen Wright
Rapunzel’s Reunion by Emma Young
The panel will meet to select the top 10 winning stories on
7 November. Check the website or our Twitter feed to find out if you’re a
winner.