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

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 judges were 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

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Branford Boase Award Winners

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