BBC Radio 2 500 Words winner
BBC Radio 2’s 500 Words competition was launched in 2010, after Chris Evans dreamt of getting children excited about reading and writing. All children: no matter what their ability, experience, or background. The idea was simple; pen an original story, no more than 500 words in length, about ANYTHING you want. Stories are judged anonymously, without regard to grammar, punctuation or spelling.
Since the competition launched, over 1 million stories have been submitted. This year was the FINAL one so imagine how excited I was to have been chosen to illustrate one of the winners! I couldn’t believe it, here I was alongside these great talents: Tony Ross, Axel Scheffler, David Roberts, Margaret Sturton and Fiona Lumbers. The story I illustrated was by Ellie Aitken, who was awarded Silver in the 10-13 category for the extremely emotive ‘For The Last Time’ and read by Blue Peter presenter Mwaksy.
Congratulations to all the winners in the history of 500 Words. Keep writing your fantastic stories!
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