At the Branford Boase Award party last night (Thursday, 30th June), Jacqueline Wilson presented six new young writers with their certificates and prizes for winning the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition.

The winners are Gemma Renyard, aged 10, Arielle Bennett, aged 15, Matthew Main, aged 11, all from Hampshire; Sarah Mooney, aged 15 from Renfrewshire, Hannah Wann, aged 12 from Berkshire and Kirsty Angove, aged 15 from Cheshire.

Click here or the link on the left to read the winning stories.

The competition asked budding writers to continue a story-opening written by Mal Peet, who last year won the Branford Boase Award with his novel ‘Keeper’.

The judges were looking for genuine creativity, expressed in originality of approach as well as technical competence and an evident enjoyment of language.

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Branford Boase Award Winners 2005

Jacqueline Wilson with the winners, l-r in the back: Sarah Mooney, Kirsty Angove and Arielle Bennett; l-r in the front Gemma Renyard, Hannah Wann, and Matthew Main