My Twist on a Tale competition

My Twist on a Tale: Our Tomorrow

Winners announced!

Exciting news! We've now announced the winners of the fourth edition of our popular and FREE writing competition, My Twist on a Tale. The judges were absolutely blown away again this year by the standard of all the entries we received.

My Twist on a Tale: Represent! encouraged children to shine a light on the whole story, representing what, and who, they feel are being left out in literature today, and putting the underrepresented centre-page.

With winning stories about everything from a transitioning pupil searching for answers to a girl shedding female stereotypes, a passionate call to end the misrepresentation of women’s bodies to children feeling lost as they fall between two cultures, we're sure you'll agree all the winners have done a fantastic job. Congratulations!

Read the winning stories (PDF | 4.3 MB)

Audio collection available now too. Click the links in the boxes below to listen!

Meet the winners!

 

Our Key Stage winners:

Image of a girl and her mother from Maria's story
Key Stage 1 winner:
Maria Cabungcal
Listen to this story
Image of linked hands
Key Stage 2 winner:
Reina Oda
Listen to this story
Image from "No such thing as normal"
Key Stage 3 winner:
Sophia Branch and Ella Kingston
Listen to this story
Image from Aditi's "Representation story"
Key Stage 4 winner:
Aditi Daniel
Listen to this story
Image from Iona's "Belonging" story
Key Stage 5 winner:
Iona Mandal
Listen to this story

 

Our regional winners:

Image from Emmanuella's "Out of Place" story
Scotland winner:
Emmanuella Shodunke
Listen to this story
Image from Sophie's "Gallery" poem
Northern Ireland joint winners:
Jacob Pozniak and Sophie Campbell
Listen to Jacob's story
Listen to Sophie's story
Image from Ava's "My Millie" story
Wales winner:
Ava James
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Image from Millie's "A Faint Shadow" story
East Anglia winner:
Millie Graves
Listen to this story
Image from Lleyton's story
North East winner:
Lleyton Rennie
Listen to this story
Image from Soha's story
North West winner:
Soha Shabaz
Listen to this story
Image from Dija's story
Yorkshire and the Humber winner:
Dija Jonaviciute
Listen to this story
Image from Nora's story
London winner:
Nora Kadar
Listen to this story
Image from Emma's poem
South East winner:
Emma Appah
Listen to this story
Image from Eden's story
South West winner:
Eden Collin O’Hare
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Image from Imogen's story
East Midlands winner:
Imogen Plater
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Image from Bahar's story
West Midlands winner:
Bahar Kayani
Listen to this story

 

Read all the winning stories (PDF | 4.3 MB)

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

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