At the Branford Boase Award party last night (Thursday, 29th June, 2006), Jacqueline Wilson presented six new young writers with their certificates and prizes for winning the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition.

The winners are

• James Falgate, aged 12, from Leeds
• Becci Fearnley, aged 16, from Farnborough
• Kane Kushner, aged 12,  from St Albans
• Ciara O’Neil, aged 7, from Porchester
• Ramona Pulsford, aged 7, from London
• Rebecca Walters, aged 11, from Middlesbrough

Each of the young authors won a copy of each of the books shortlisted for the BBA, a certificate, an expenses paid trip to the awards ceremony at Walker Books in London with the chance to meet Jaqueline Wilson and the BBA authors, and a visit to one of the publishers of the BBA shortlisted books.

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 Meg Rosoff, who last year won the Branford Boase Award with her novel ‘How We Live Now’.

The judge, Kate Jones of Young Writer Magazine, was looking for genuine creativity, expressed in originality of approach as well as technical competence and an evident enjoyment of language.

Full HBWC press release

The Stories

Party Photos

More Party Photos in BBA section

Branford Boase Award Winners 2006

Jacqueline Wilson with the winners.