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At the Branford Boase Award party last night (Thursday, 28th June, 2007), Jacqueline Wilson presented six new young writers with their certificates and prizes for winning the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition.
The winners are:
- Beth O'Leary, age 15
- Robert Thackeray, age 11
- Abby Posner, age 10
- Joanna Furtado, age 15
- Kate Cosgrave, age 17
- Rachelle Packer age 16
Each of the young authors won a copy of the books shortlisted for the BBA, a certificate and an expenses paid trip to the awards ceremony at Walker Books in London with the chance to meet Jaqueline Wilson and the BBA authors.
Moira Arthur, from BBA sponser Peters Bookselling Services, picked a prize draw in which Rachelle Packer, who was unable to attend the party, won £500 worth of books for her school library at Applemore College.
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 Frances Hardinge, who last year won the Branford Boase Award with her novel FLY BY NIGHT.
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.
Jacqueline Wilson with the attending winners.
Rachelle Packer is given her prize by her headmaster Matthew Longden
