If you're a young writer (or know of one!) and reside in the United Kingdom. then the Wicked Young Writers' Award may be of interest to you. The competition is open to writers from the age of 5 to 25 - it;s the first of it's kind to reward writing excellence through such a broad age range.
Interested in entering? Here's a bit more info...
Entrants will be divided into five different age categories, and the winning 20 entries from each will be invited to a prize ceremony to be held in the autumn. The overall winner from each category will receive four tickets to see the London production of Wicked, along with the opportunity to meet the cast! The lucky winners will also get a writing master class from one of the Wicked Award judges.
In addition, the 100 winning entries will be published in an anthology.
Entries must be no longer than 750 words. Here are some more Wicked facts from the website:
Wicked tells the untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students. As the audience follows them on their extraordinary adventures in Oz that will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West, they are encouraged to look at things differently by exploring themes of friendship, trust, tolerance, bullying, the use of propaganda and the manipulation of public opinion.
Over 250,000 pupils have seen Wicked as it enters into its fourth year at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, and in 2009 the Women of the Future Awards acknowledged the show's leading ladies as role models for young people today when it named Dianne Pilkington and Alexia Khadime winners in its 'Art and Culture' category.
You can find out more about the Wicked Young Writers' Award (or enter online!) by visiting the official site.
Good luck!
(Thanks to Chicklish for this news.)
