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"YOUNG WRITERS" CATEGORY : FULL ENTRIES LIST

We have included the final scores, for the interest of the competitors and to show how close-spread the marks were - quite astonishing! Thank you to everyone who entered; the high standard made for a very lively judging period and a lot of discussion afterwards amongst the judges! The list is in order of ENTRY I.D. and not in order of marks.

The ID numbers in the left column (in ascending order) were supplied to entrants in their acknowledgement emails; we have not used their names here, to preserve their privacy. If you have lost your ID number and forgotten the title of your entry, and can thus not identify your marks below, you may contact us. Note: the comments were made during judging, when the stories were totally anonymous. None of the entrants is known to any of the judges.

CRITIQUES:
As promised, each of the entrants will receive a brief critique of their story. Because of the sensitivity of the age group, we will not be displaying comments here.

JUDGES' OBSERVATIONS:

We were all delighted with the high standard of entries, especially considering that the average age of the entrants is 10-11 years! What surprised us even more was that sometimes the creativity, grammar and phrasing was of as good a standard as many of the entries for our other categories. It especially thrills me to realise that this means there is a definite upturn in the schooling of the English Language, after the dreadful time of letting it all slide, and I'd like to say to all the teachers out there who have been paying attention to this in their pupils: Hurrah! - and thank you!

With the writing having been so well done, we would like to further encourage the entrants (who all showed great promise!) to remember to go over your work several times, polishing and correcting, until you know for certain that it is faultless.

We especially were delighted with the participation of a school - Alleyn's Junior School in Dulwich submitted nearly half of our entries, and we were very impressed with their quality. We certainly hope that more schools will do likewise in our current Young Writers' competition; it's such a good way to motivate pupils to create, imagine, and pay attention to detail - not to mention grammar!

YW0001	I'll Be Waiting	24.00
YW0002	The night the snow came	21.50
YW0003	From The Antarctic With Love	21.00
YW0004	Blood in the Snow	20.50
YW0005	The Tricks of Time	23.67
YW0006	A Place in History	23.83
YW0007	Living Music	23.50
YW0008	The Night Child	18.33
YW0009	Agent TM saves Belvoir Territory	17.50
YW0010	Nothing out of the ordinary, or was it?	21.25
YW0011	A Peaceful Warrior	21.25
YW0012	Fast Lane	18.83
YW0013	The Theft of the Golden Bracelet	19.33
YW0014	The Masked Man	19.83
YW0015	Stranded	20.83
YW0016	The Arm and the New School	23.63
YW0017	The Telephone Call	14.33
YW0018	The Walk	20.83
YW0019	The Running Competition	20.17
YW0020	The Aviator	19.25
YW0021	The Missing Man	18.00
YW0022	Missing Girl	19.00
YW0023	Car Radio Loss	19.67
YW0024	Mum, Dad and the Phone	18.50
YW0025	The Story that Comes Alive	23.75
YW0026	War Child	22.13
YW0027	Will there Ever Be a Proper Home?	21.88
YW0028	The Scarlet Dancer	23.50
YW0029	The Girl with No Name	20.50
YW0030	The Tree House	21.17
YW0031	It Isn't What It Seems	23.63
YW0032	Girl of the Street	23.88
YW0033	The Chimney Sweep	21.33
YW0034	Pit Pony Rescue	20.67
YW0035	The Cook's Assistant	19.00
YW0036	A Royal Disaster	17.00
YW0037	Man On Mars	21.00
YW0038	The Invasion	20.25

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