Submissions are invited for Children’s Story Competition 2024 by Settle Stories. The last date of submission is September 29, 2024.

About Settle Stories

Settle Stories is an independent charity and receives no regular funding. 

Competition Details

The popular Children’s Story Competition is back for another year with a brand new theme, new judge and great prizes up for grabs!

It’s simple, all you need to do is write a story of up to 500 words based around the theme – ‘Kindness.’

Your story can be about anything so long as the central theme is kindness. 

Maybe you wake up and all of the kindness in the world has gone. What would happen? Would you try to restart acts of kindness in the world? 

Maybe you’re inspired by something kind someone has done for you, or perhaps you want to write about what would happen to the ocean if the sharks started being kind to all sea creatures.

You can be as creative as you want, so long as your story is about kindness, you can create anything your imagination drums up.

Stories should be typed in either Times New Roman or Arial 12pt, with double line spacing. Include the title of your story as a header on each page submitted. For safeguarding purposes do not put the author’s name on the story. Include the word count at the end of your story. 

Eligibility

This worldwide competition is open to anyone aged 7 to 12 years residing anywhere in the world on 13th May 2024. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. The responsible adult submitting the story on behalf of the entrant will be asked to provide the entrant’s name, age and date of birth and ensure that they have parental permission to do so. 

Judging

The judge for this year’s children’s story competition is award-winning author Alex Falas-Koya. Alex is the epic writer of the action-packed series, Marv, and also co-wrote The Breakfast Club series with Marcus Rashford.

Prizes

Prizes include:

1st place

  • £100 book token.
  • A personalised response to your story by Alex.
  • Tree named after the winner in Kenya’s Msitu wa Ndoto (Forest of Dreams) with a QR code linking to your story .

2nd place

  • £50 book token.
  • A personalised response to your story by Alex.
  • Tree named after the winner in Kenya’s Msitu wa Ndoto (Forest of Dreams) with a QR code linking to your story.

3rd place

  • £30 book token.
  • A personalised response to your story by Alex.
  • Tree named after the winner in Kenya’s Msitu wa Ndoto (Forest of Dreams) with a QR code linking to your story.

Runners up:

3 runners up will receive:

  • A personalised response to your story by Alex.
  • Tree named after the winner in Kenya’s Msitu wa Ndoto (Forest of Dreams) with a QR code linking to your story.

How to Submit?

Interested students can submit online via this link.

Submission Deadline

The last date of submission is September 29, 2024.

Click here to view the official notification of Children’s Story Competition 2024 by Settle Stories.