Two children from East Dunbartonshire and Staffordshire have written their way to success. Today they were crowned the winners of 500 Words, the short story writing competition on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.
Today, in a special live outside broadcast of The Breakfast Show at the Hay Literary Festival in Hay on Wye, Chris revealed that Angus Barrett, aged nine from East Dunbartonshire, and Olivia Norton, aged 12 from Staffordshire, had won the competition through their exceptional writing and edgy style. They beat almost 30,000 other entrants from around the UK. See the two winning stories along with the Top 50 entries at bbc.co.uk/radio2.
Chris Evans said: "It has been a sincere honour and joy to be involved in this competition, and to sit on the judging panel with such brilliant and esteemed authors. The sheer quality of writing we have received has been gobsmacking and we have found it almost impossible to choose between such a wide range of radically different styles, subjects and approaches. The stories - and the minds that created them – are truly inspiring and, if this is anything to go by, it looks like the future of British writing is in safe hands."
Called 500 Words and launched in association with Hay Fever, the children's programme of the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts, the competition aimed to inspire children to get creative and to write a story with a maximum of 500 words about any fictional topic they chose.
(Source : BBC Press Release)
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