What were you doing on the day of the riots last summer? Here’s your chance to put your experience of the riots into writing and win a day at top publishing house.
How did the riots last year impact you? What was you doing? How do you think they started? Did you know anyone involved in the riots or affected by them? How has it impacted on your community since? Now is your chance to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboards and write, in no more than 500 words, your experiences of the riots.
Teen author Bali Rai, is on the hunt for the best story inspired by the riots last summer. The lucky winner will win a day at Random House Children’s Books with author Bali Rai. Here’s your perfect opportunity to learn all the secrets of the publishing world, how books are edited, marketed and sold. You’ll also get to have lunch with Bali and his editor, a complete signed set of Bali’s books AND get your story published on the Booktrust website!
Three runners-up will receive a complete signed set of Bali’s books and your story published on the Booktrust website.
You must be between 13-17 to enter and the deadline for entries is 26 March 2012.
Happy writing!
Applications and more info can be found at the Booktrust website.
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