If you’re aged 8-13, you can enter the North of Nowhere Creative Writing Competition to write a story of up to 500 words using the opening lines of North or Nowhere by Liz Kessler as your starting point.  You could win a digital camera, £100 worth of books for our school and have your story published on the Guardian Children’s Books website!

Read these top tips by Liz Kessler for some inspiration.

Closing date Thursday 28th March.