My Twist on a Tale competition

My Twist on a Tale: Our Tomorrow

My Twist on a Tale winners announced!

Exciting news – the winners of the My Twist on a Tale: Our Tomorrow writing competition have been chosen!

The winning stories and poems ranged from earthlings zipping around on hoverboards and cyborg dogs to a space version of Romeo and Juliet and the need for new laws to keep people safe. 

Read the winning stories (PDF | 2.09 MB)

The audio versions of each winning story are now available too!

Listen to the audio stories

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry to the competition, and congratulations to our wonderful winners! Picking the final 17 winners was no easy task, as we and the judges were blown away by the level of imagination and writing skills. We're incredibly proud of everyone who entered.

And the winners are...

 

Our Key Stage winners:

Image of a cyborg dog
Key Stage 1 winner:
Sebastian Dechamps
Image from the poem of an old man looking out the window, imagining his younger self seeing this future world
Key Stage 2 winner:
Veer Khanna
Image of Romeo in his spaceship
Key Stage 3 winner:
Nathaniel Reed

 

Image of the desolate world
Key Stage 4 winner:
Emily Spratt
Image of a female doctor leaving the shop
Key Stage 5 winner:
Adrienn Baczur

 

Our regional winners:

Image of children floating around in a spaceship
Scotland winner:
Aidan Harris
New Atlantis
Northern Ireland winner:
Emma-Louise White
Girl looking out over the floods holding a fish
Wales winner:
Holly Thorpe
Two girls sat by a (fake) wooden fence
East Anglia winner:
Jessica Smith
Monsters searching for the man
North East winner:
Erin Cooper
A new pair of legs being delivered!
North West winner:
Larrie Marsh
A blue flower
Yorkshire and the Humber winner:
Taya Brown
Child being digitally uploaded into Ingamed
London winner:
Leo Templer
Image of a scary man threatening a girl on her run
South East winner:
Phoebe Harris
A factory chucking out smoke
South West winner:
Sophia Papasouliotis
A girl struggling with nostalgia
East Midlands winner:
Tanya Arion
A beautiful tiger
West Midlands winner:
Jasmine Hussain

 

Read all the winning stories (PDF | 2.09 MB)

The beautiful illustrations are by Liliana Perez, c/o Collaborate.