Renaissance Place and Raintree are challenging secondary school students to annotate and illustrate one of the following scenes/chapters in a graphic novel style consisting of no more than 12 panels:

• Ulysses by James Joyce, Episode 12 “Cyclops”
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Chapter XVI
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene I
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Act II, Part II

Could you write a short story that author Morris Gleitzman thinks is a winner?

The fabulously funny author of books including Two Weeks With the Queen, Misery Guts and the trilogy Once, Then and Now is going to be the judge in The Guardian’s summer short story competition.

There are two age categories: 7-11 and 12-14, and your story must start with this sentence:

Dad was flabbergasted when I told him the news…

And then it’s down to you how it continues and finishes!

Your story must be no more than 500 words and must be all your own work.  The closing date for entries is Sunday the 1st of July, so get writing now!!

Click here for more information and details of how to enter!

Calling all budding authors!  The Wicked Young Writers’ Award is FREE to enter and entries can range from any genre including stories, poems, drama and can even include illustrations.  The award is open to young people aged between 5 and 25 years old on the closing date of 31 July 2012.  Entries must be no longer than 750 words!  Click here for more information.  Get writing!!!